USA Swimming announced a few minor changes to its 2023 domestic calendar on Tuesday.
Perhaps the most important change from a scheduling perspective is that the Speedo Junior National Championships in Irvine will now take place after the senior national meet, not before, which it was initially scheduled to do.
However, the more intriguing change was the renaming of a few events, most notably the senior national meet in Irvine that will be held the week prior to Junior Nationals.
What was previously the U.S. National Championships is now listed as the “TYR Pro Championships,” while the International Team Trials are now called U.S. Nationals.
The national governing body has also added five sites for the 2023 Futures Championships to take place July 26-29. Read more on that here.
USA Swimming Schedule Changes
- Junior Nationals in Irvine moved from July 25-29 to July 31-August 4.
- U.S. Nationals in Irvine moved from August 1-5 to July 26-29 and renamed the TYR Pro Championships.
- International Team Trials in Indianapolis renamed National Championships (still June 27-July 1).
- Futures Championships added for five sites for July 26-29.
The National Championship meet in Indianapolis will remain the qualifying competition for the 2023 World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, along with the 2023 World Junior Championships and the 2023 Pan American Games.
The previously scheduled Pro Swim Series events in Knoxville, Tenn., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Westmont, Ill., and Mission Viejo, Calif., remain on the schedule as initially announced in July.
A USA Swimming spokesperson told SwimSwam there’s not a significant difference between the Pro Championship meet and U.S. Nationals, and that the pro championship is not related to the PSS meets.
The Pro Championships will begin the day after the conclusion of the pool swimming competition at the 2023 World Championships in Fukuoka, making it extremely difficult for Worlds team members to compete in Irvine.
Updated 2023 USA Swimming Schedule
| Date | Competition | Location |
| Jan 11-14 | Pro Swim Series | Knoxville, Tenn. |
| Mar 1-4 | Pro Swim Series | Ft Lauderdale, Fla. |
| Apr 12-15 | Pro Swim Series | Westmont, Ill. |
| Apr 21-23 | Open Water Nationals | Sarasota, Fla. |
| May 17-20 | Pro Swim Series | Mission Viejo, Calif. |
| Jun 27-July 1 | National Championships | Indianapolis, Ind. |
| Jul 26-29 | TYR Pro Championships | Irvine, Calif. |
| Jul 26-29 | Futures Championships | Ocala, Fla.; West Fargo, N.D.; San Antonio, Texas; Richmond, Va.; Sacramento, Calif. |
| Aug 1-5 | Speedo Junior National Championships | Irvine, Calif. |
| Nov 29-Dec 2 | U.S. Open | TBD |
| Dec 6-9 | Speedo Winter Junior Championships (East) | TBD |
| Dec 6-9 | Speedo Winter Junior Championships (West) | TBD |
I like this change to calling it the Pro Championships. It’s always been weird to call someone the “national champion” when the fastest person in the country isn’t even at the meet (i.e. they’re at Worlds or Pan Pacs or whatever other meet).
I also hope that now that it’s no longer Nationals that this will convince more junior swimmers to go to Junior Nationals rather than just Nationals. Junior Nationals was a lot more fun when the best junior swimmers actually went (I’m thinking of 2013, for example, when we watched swimmers like Ella Eastin, Katie McLaughlin, and many others dominate the meet).
Is there no WUG meet this quad?