By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
Note: This analysis focuses on the American pool swimming roster.
USA Swimming is sending 46 pool swimmers to the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, and as is tradition in American swimming, the “clubs” that many of those swimmers represent are not the clubs where they primarily train, and in some cases, are not the clubs where they have ever trained.
A complicated history means some swimmers represent their childhood clubs (derived from a recruiting strategy for college coaches or local funding benefits), others represent clubs affiliated with their college programs, and others represent clubs that they are paid to represent.
While all of these representations are valuable in their own way, the representations are not particularly consistent in any way that, in aggregate, shares much information.
So I took a few minutes to reorganize athletes into the programs where they are actually training to try and parse out which training groups are getting swimmers onto World Championship teams. While clubs that financially support elite athletes, or age group programs that produce elite athletes, are important to swimming infrastructure, those are both different relationships than the training group that actually gets athletes over the hump and onto a team.
A Few Observations:
Bob Bowman at the University of Texas gets a lot of heat for the fact that his training groups host some of the world’s best swimmers like Leon Marchand of France and, soon, Summer McIntosh of Canada, but that doesn’t mean he has lost sight of contributions to the American team. The University of Texas ecosystem (which includes collegiate undergrads and pros, men and women) is responsible for more members of the pool team at the World Championships than any other. The University of Virginia, with seven, is next-most, even though only one of them represented the “University of Virginia” at Trials. The women’s group, the best in the U.S. right now, is responsible for six of those, but the men got a breakthrough thanks to Jack Aikins. That Virginia list does not include Thomas Heilman. He was training exclusively with Cavalier Aquatics and Conor Hassard until he graduated from high school on May 21. On May 21, he started training with the University of Virginia squad a few days a week, though he remained with Hassard and Cavalier Aquatics a majority of the time. Now, he’s at Virginia full-time alongside other incoming freshmen Maximus Williamson, Josh Howat, and Madi Mintenko, though Hassard continues to write some of his workouts. Cavalier Aquatics felt like the best representation of where he was training heading into Trials. “It’s Complicated” is for Santo Condorelli, who made the team in the 50 free. He was training with Brett Hawke from fall of 2024 until Hawke joined the Enhanced Games, and is now training with Sean Kao‘s Aquatics Sports Performance pro/elite training group in California (more on that soon). He swam unattached at Trials. Bella Sims trained at Florida until the NCAA Championships, but has since been primarily with the Sandpipers of Nevada. That’s where we’ve categorized her for this list. Last year’s Olympic roster breakdown saw Virginia, Texas, Indiana and Cal all tied for the most swimmers qualified with six, though for Indiana, that included Mariah Denigan‘s open water qualification—she made the Worlds team in open water again this year, but that’s not factored into the count here. So, relative to 2024, Texas increased by four qualifiers, which is no surprise given the talent that has followed Bowman there in the last 12 months, while Virginia increased by one and Cal dropped one (which could be looked at as an increase with Ryan Murphy and Abbey Weitzeil both not competing). For Indiana, they lost two—Blake Pieroni didn’t compete, and Matt King missed the team. Florida dropped from five to three with Caeleb Dressel not in the field and Kieran Smith missing the team.As always, because there is no ‘official registry’ of where athletes are training, this is to the best of our knowledge and wouldn’t account for anyone who snuck back to their old club under the cover of darkness.
2025 World Championships Pool Team by Training Group
Training Group Qualifiers 1 Texas 10 2 Virginia 7 3 Cal 5 4 Stanford 3 4 Indiana 3 4 Florida 3 4 Arizona State 3 8 NC State 2 8 Sandpipers of Nevada 2 10 Cavalier Aquatics 1 10 Wisconsin 1 10 Tennessee 1 10 It’s Complicated 1 10 Notre Dame 1 10 Bend Swim Club 1 10 Pleasanton Seahawks 1 10 Virginia Tech 1 10 Georgia 1The Full Roster Breakdown
Women
Women Official Club Training Group Phoebe Bacon Wisconsin Aquatics Wisconsin Katharine Berkoff Wolfpack Elite NC State Caroline Bricker Alto Swim Club Stanford Jillian Cox Longhorn Aquatics Texas Claire Curzan TAC Titans Virginia Kate Douglass NYAC Virginia Erin Gemmell Longhorn Aquatics Texas Katie Grimes Cavalier Aquatics Virginia Torri Huske Arlington Aquatic Club Stanford Lilly King Indiana Swim Club Indiana Katie Ledecky Gator Swim Club Florida Simone Manuel Longhorn Aquatics Texas Anna Moesch University of Virginia Virginia Anna Peplowski Indiana Swim Club Indiana Bella Sims Sandpipers of Nevada Sandpipers of Nevada McKenzie Siroky Tennessee Aquatics Tennessee Regan Smith Longhorn Aquatics Texas Alex Walsh NYAC Virginia Gretchen Walsh NYAC Virginia Claire Weinstein Sandpipers of Nevada Sandpipers of Nevada Emma Weyant University of Florida FloridaMen
Men Official Club Training Group Jack Aikins SwimAtlanta Virginia Jack Alexy California Aquatics Cal Michael Andrew Sun Devil Swimming Arizona State Shaine Casas Longhorn Aquatics Texas Santo Condorelli Unattached It’s Complicated Bobby Finke Saint Petersburg Aquatics Florida Carson Foster Unattached Texas Chris Guiliano Longhorn Aquatics Texas Thomas Heilman Cavalier Aquatics Cavalier Aquatics Luke Hobson Longhorn Aquatics Texas Tommy Janton University of Notre Dame Notre Dame Gabriel Jett California Aquatics Cal Keaton Jones California Aquatics Cal David Johnston Longhorn Aquatics Texas Jonny Kulow Sun Devil Swimming Arizona State Destin Lasco California Aquatics Cal Josh Matheny Indiana Swim Club Indiana Rex Maurer Longhorn Aquatics Texas Quintin McCarty Wolfpack Elite NC State Henry McFadden Jersey Wahoos Stanford Campbell McKean Bend Swim Club Bend Swim Club Luka Mijatovic Pleasanton Seahawks Pleasanton Seahawks AJ Pouch Pinnacle Racing Virginia Tech Dare Rose California Aquatics Cal Patrick Sammon Sun Devil Swimming Arizona State Luca Urlando Dart Swimming GeorgiaRead the full story on SwimSwam: Where Do the Members of the U.S. 2025 World Championships Pool Swimming Team Actually Train?
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