2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
U.S. Olympic Trials have come and gone, however don’t fret, we’re right here to scale back that post-meet boredom and equipment up for the Paris Olympics, which kick off in lower than two weeks. On this article, we’re breaking down the U.S. Olympic roster right into a sequence of interactive maps you possibly can browse as you whereas away the times till the opening ceremony.
1. The place was the U.S. Olympic Crew Racing A Yr In the past?
The 2023 U.S. Nationals served as an enormous choice meet. Not solely have been swimmers qualifying for Worlds, however the meet was an opportunity to achieve a roster spot on the 2023 LEN U23 European Championships, World Junior Championships, and Pan American Video games. This map serves as a technique to chart the place swimmers spent their summer season swimming after Indianapolis. If a swimmer swam at U.S. Nationals however didn’t qualify for one more crew, they depend in direction of the U.S. Nationals depend, even when additionally they swam on the U.S. Professional Champs later that summer season.
All however three swimmers on the U.S. Olympic crew raced at 2023 U.S. Nationals. The exceptions are Simone Manuel, Blake Pieroni, and Luca Urlando, all of whom have been on a comeback path of types final season. In the meantime, the overwhelming majority of swimmers headed to Paris certified to race in Fukuoka final summer season. There are outliers although; Aaron Shackell was at LEN U23 European Championships, Luke Whitlock went to World Juniors, and Keaton Jones swam at World College Video games. Emma Weber, who initially purchased a spectator ticket to the Olympics, raced at Pan Ams with Paige Madden and Brooks Curry.
The one swimmer on the U.S. Olympic roster who didn’t function at any of those meets final summer season is open water swimmer Ivan Puskovitch. The opposite open water-only swimmer on the roster, Mariah Denigan, raced at U.S. Nationals.
2. The place Do They Prepare?
College of Texas leads the best way as the highest coaching website for the united statesOlympic roster, with eight swimmers calling Austin their base. In fact, this will get a bit extra sophisticated by the truth that previous to Trials, there have been three teams coaching on the Texas’ complicated: Carol Capitani‘s ladies’s program, Eddie Reese‘s crew, and the newly employed Director of Swimming Bob Bowman‘s group. Since we’re counting by website, we’ve counted all of the swimmers–no matter coach–as one Texas contingent.
The opposite piece of the Texas subject that’s a problem to trace is strictly who adopted Bowman to Austin from Tempe. Bowman’s professional group did a stint on the U.S. Olympic Coaching Middle within the spring, then some swimmers continued to Austin. SwimSwam has confirmed that neither Luca Urlando nor Simone Manuel skilled in Austin. Urlando, who not too long ago introduced he would return to the NCAA and UGA, went to coach along with his membership crew in California and Manuel swam in Tempe for the final three weeks main as much as Trials. Bowman actually performed a task of their improvement over the past Olympic cycle, however once more since we’re counting by website, they don’t contribute to the Texas whole.
Cal Berkeley checks in with six swimmers on the U.S. roster, the second highest quantity for a coaching website. Abbey Weitzeil is their lone consultant on the ladies’s facet and so they bought their standard increase from the backstroke occasions on the lads’s facet: Cal swimmers make up 100% of the lads’s backstroke roster spots with Ryan Murphy qualifying in each occasions, Hunter Armstrong making the 100, and Keaton Jones the 200.
Indiana, Florida, and Virginia are all sending 5 representatives on the U.S. roster.
And if it’s arduous so that you can discover Thomas Heilman‘s dot, that’s as a result of the Cavalier Aquatics/Piedmont Household Y crew practice in Charlottesville, Virginia–the identical city because the College of Virginia, which overwhelms Heilman’s dot with their 5 representatives.
3. The place Are They From?
Information for this visualization relies on what every swimmer listed as their hometown on the 2024 U.S. Olympic roster. Indiana, the host state for U.S. Olympic Trials, is nicely represented with six swimmers on the Olympic crew. Half of the Indiana contingent hails from Carmel as Aaron Shackell, Alex Shackell, and Drew Kibler all name it house. Kibler can be the one Indiana-born swimmer to at present practice out of state, although he did briefly return to Carmel Swimming, his membership crew.
Different states with a number of swimmers on the roster are California, Florida, Texas, Virginia, Tennessee, New York, Nevada, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland. Although Maryland’s three representatives Katie Ledecky, Erin Gemmell, and Phoebe Bacon listing completely different hometowns, all of them swam on the identical highschool, Stone Ridge, which might give the varsity a good sized dot on the coaching website map if all of them nonetheless skilled there.
