It’s that point of the 12 months once more, the place the SwimSwam employees will make it’s annual checklist of untamed predictions for 2025. As well as, the employees additionally supplied alter ego takes, that are extra egregious, not totally swimming-related predictions (which generally do come true as nicely!).
Wild Predictions
Yanyan: A global male freshman wins an NCAA title
Braden: Thomas Ceccon will wind up coming again to the U.S. with Leon after their stints in Australia and coaching in Austin.
Barry: Gretchen Walsh breaks Missy Franklin‘s NCAA file within the girls’s 200-yard free
James: Leon Marchand (200 free) and Summer season McIntosh (800 free) experiment with new occasions at lengthy course worlds and win gold
Robert: The Mid-Atlantic area will account for not less than 2/3 U.S. males’s breaststrokers at this summer season’s main worldwide competitions (Worlds, World College Video games, and Junior Worlds)
Madeline: Somebody not named Regan Smith or Kaylee McKeown breaks an extended course girls’s backstroke world file
Mark: No world information might be damaged on the 2025 World Championships
Nicole: Caeleb Dressel declares his retirement from aggressive swimming.
Retta: Angharad Evans lands on the 100 breast podium at Worlds
Anya: Gretchen Walsh wins the 50 free at NCAAs by over a second
Alter Ego Takes
Yanyan: One thing controversial occurs at 2025 Worlds and Stephen A. Smith begins speaking about it on First Take
Braden: The ISL will try a revival, however will (not) pay their athletes totally in cryptocurrency.
Barry: Gretchen Walsh breaks Katie Ledecky‘s NCAA file within the 500 free
James: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declares swimming as Canada’s new unofficial nationwide sport because of the nation’s latest failures in worldwide hockey and Summer season McIntosh‘s Olympic success (lacrosse is the official nationwide sport)
Madeline: Swimming turns into the brand new hockey in romance novels
Robert: A leak of U.S. IP knowledge reveals to the world that “Andrew,” SwimSwam’s most infamous commentator, is definitely Eddie Reese‘s burner account
Mark: I’ll, once more, be victorious in fantasy Tour de France in opposition to James and Sophie (Kaufman)
Nicole: Michael Phelps goes professional in golf
Retta: Solar Yang races at Worlds and carries a hammer in his walkout
Anya: Michael Phelps comes out of retirement to assist U.S. males’s swimming
