The 2014 Junior Pan Pacific Championship’s will take place in Maui, Hawaii from August 27th to August 31st. USA Swimming has officially released the 2014 Junior Pan Pac Championships team. They team is set to meet in Los Angeles on the 24th before they fly to Maui as a team for the junior Pan Pacific Championships meet. The team consists of 23 men and 23 women from around the country.
Sergio Lopez from Bolles School Sharks has been named the head women’s coach while John Morse from Nashville Aquatic Club has been named the head men’s coach. The assistant coaches are Michael Brooks (York YMCA), Geoff Brown (NOVA of Virginia), Jaime Lewis (Gator Swim Club), Chris Plumb (Carmel Swim Club), Paul Stafford (Unattached), and Jason Turcotte (Dynamo Swim Club)
| WOMEN’S ROSTER | CLUB | Signed NLI or Verbal College Commitment |
| Claire Adams | Carmel Swim Club | – |
| Emily Allen | North Mecklenburg | – |
| Cassidy Bayer | Nation’s Capital Swim Club | – |
| Amy Bilquist | Carmel Swim Club | – |
| Jorie Caneta | Roadrunner Aquatic | Arizona State University |
| Linsey Clary | Ohio State University | Ohio State University |
| Katie Drabot | Ouzakee Aquatics | – |
| Ella Eastin | SoCal Aquatics | – |
| Danielle Galyer | Y-Spartaquatics Swim Club | University of Kentucky |
| Courtney Harnish | York YMCA | – |
| Madison Homovich | North Carolina Aquatic Club | – |
| Lilly King | Newburgh Sea Creatures | – |
| Regan Kology | Somerset YMCA | Harvard University |
| Emily Kopas | Swim Fort Lauderdale | University of Michigan |
| Kara Kopcso | Tiger Aquatics Swimming | Louisiana State University |
| Katrina Konopka | Y-Spartaquatics Swim Club | – |
| Hannah Kukurugya | Crown Point Swim Club | – |
| Stanzi Moseley | Roadrunner Aquatic | – |
| Isabella Rongione | Nation’s Capital Swim Club | – |
| Sierra Schmidt | North Baltimore Aquatic Club | – |
| Leah Stevens | Lakeside Swim Team | – |
| Hannah Weiss | King Aquatic Club | University of Southern California |
| Kim Williams | Bellevue Club Swim Team | – |
| MEN’S ROSTER | CLUB | Signed NLI or Verbal College Commitment |
| Michael Andrew | Indie Swimming | – |
| Aiden Burns | Santa Clara Swim Club | – |
| Brendan Casey | Team Santa Monica | University of Virginia |
| Liam Egan | Crimson Aquatics | Stanford Univeristy |
| Alex Evdokimov | Coral Springs Swim Club | Cornell University |
| Connor Green | BlueFish Swim Club | California Berkeley |
| Sean Grieshop | Nitro Swimming | – |
| Townley Haas | NOVA of Virginia Aquatics | – |
| Connor Hoppe | Clovis Swim Club | California Berkeley |
| Logan Houck | Sandpipers of Nevada | – |
| James Jones | Nation’s Capital Swim Club | – |
| Nick Norman | Mission Viejo Nadadores | – |
| Curtis Ogren | Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics | Stanford Univeristy |
| Corey Okubo | Aquaxot Swim Club | Princeton University |
| Todd Owen | Cardinal Aquatic | University of Louisville |
| Blake Pieroni | Indiana University Swim Team | Indiana University |
| Paul Powers | SwimMAC Carolina | University of Michigan |
| Andrew Seliskar | Nation’s Capital Swim Club | – |
| Grant Shoults | Mission Viejo Nadadores | – |
| Cody Taylor | Donner Swim Club | Indiana University |
| Alex Valente | Buenaventura Swim Club | – |
| Chris Yeager | First Colony Swim Team | – |
| Ethan Young | Carpet Capital Aquatics | – |
Any info re livestreaming of Junior Pan Pacs ??
Congrat’s, Connor Green, on making the team! Go Bluefish! 🙂
Didn’t know where to post this but this is a good article about Kathleen Baker. She says she is taking official visits to Cal, Texas, Georgia, and Tennessee.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/08/13/5104613/swimmac-teen-to-gain-taste-of.html#.U-zluvldUqs
Good find, swimmer24. Thanks!
Selection was based strictly on performance at Nationals so Rooney’s Junior Nationals performance was not a n influence.
no Maxime Rooney? ;( He had a great summer…
I was wondering the same thing! I guess his efforts at Juniors were devalued because he couldn’t repeat them a week later! Well, he impressed me a great deal! 🙂
thrilled for Claire Adams, Amy Bilquist and Lilly King – – go Indiana Swimming!
…and Hannah Kukurugya and Blake Pieroni and Cody Taylor. Indiana had a great week. Hats off to Tony Young and all of the folks at Indiana Swimming. Well done!
Reece Whitley could be next… There are a lot of 13-14 boys coming up – look for more rising stars!
I echo your statement WHOKNOWS. We are beginning to see an emergence of 13-14 male elite swimmers like Max Miranda, Hunter Hitchens and Andrew Abruzzo that have the right blend of strengths with technique and endurance. These three are currently on my radar.
I’ve seen plenty of factors conspire as a coach against keeping swimmers at the elite level throughout those teenage years. It will be interesting to see how these three young men perform and deliver results next season and the coming years.
I agree that the number of elite 13-14 male swimmers now is quite impressive and larger than what I can remember in the past; however, it seems to be an inevitable fact that female swimmers will need to train at that level to become international stars. I’m curious to learn from your experience what factors you’ve seen that might make this kind of training less advantageous for boys.
I’ve found markedly different responses to training with age groupers, despite being the same or similar age. In this light, the most important consideration is not always gender but instead recognizing periods of rapid growth and acting appropriately as a coach to these changes.
I look at the Peak Height Velocity (PHV) with growth spurt at current age then align their training. Female aerobic capacity improves significantly during the most rapid phases of growth: 11 to 13 for girls; 13 to 15 for boys. I normally blend these age groups for VO2 max sets.
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It sounds like you are an exemplary coach, Coach Bell. Thanks for your informative response! What you say about initiating the most intense aerobic conditioning during the major growth spurt of puberty makes sense! We will have to see how the careers of these athletes progress. I guess it must be true that Phelps did that kind of training earlier, but I’m not sure we should base decisions about what’s best to do with most athletes on what he did!
Scanning at the list, those are very impressive swimmers USA will have at the Jr Pan Pacs. USA swimming will never lack depth for the next twenty years.
And Destin Lasco is coming soon! 🙂
Let’s see how he ages up. I think you are crowning him before he has attended any big meets.