As their Winter National Championship, the Jose Finkel Trophy, gets underway, Brazil has announced their squad for the 2011 Pan American Games that will begin in mid-October in Guadalajara, Mexico.Brazil is known for sending a very strong team to the Pan Am Championships every year, especially on the men’s side. At the last edition of the meet, in 2007, the Brazilians took 10 of the 16 pool-swimming medals awarded on the men’s side.
The stars for this Brazilian squad will be Cesar Cielo and Thiago Pereira on the men’s side and Fabiola Molina on the women’s side. Reaching a little deeper into the men’s side, watch for Bruno Fratus who is the heir apparent to Cielo’s Brazilian sprint throne, and the former University of Michigan standoud Andre Schultz.
Sitting this meet out will be Auburn sprinter Marcelo Chierighini. Like it does for many NCAA stars, this meet comes at a tough time in the school year, especially in the fall semester where many swimmers load up on their tougher academic classes. Also absent from the Brazilian roster are the three other Brazilians aside from Cesar Cielo who tested positive for the banned diuretic furosemide at Maria Lenk. Vinicius Waked is serving a one-year ban (this was a second offense for him), while Nicholas dos Santos and Henrique Barbosa lost their qualifying times as a part of their “warning-only” suspension.
Brazilian National Swimming – Pan American Games 2011
WOMEN
1 ANA CLAUDIA ARAÚJO SANTOS – ECP/SP
2 CAROLINA MUSSI – ECP/SP
3 DAIENE DIAS – FFC/RJ
4 DAYNARA PAULA – MTC/MG
5 ETIENE MEDEIROS – NSESI/PE
6 FABIOLA MOLINA – MTC/MG
7 FERNANDA ALVARENGA – MTC/MG
8 FLAVIA CAZZIOLATO – ECP/SP
9 GABRIELLA ROCHA – CNRAC/ES
10 GABRIELLA SILVA – ECP/SP
11 GRACIELLE HERMAN – GNU/RS
12 JESSICA CAVALHEIRO – MTC/MG
13 JOANNA MARANHÃO – CRF/RJ
14 LARISSA CIESLAK – MTC/MG
15 MANUELA LYRIO – MTC/MG
16 MICHELLE LENHARDT – ECP/SP
17 MICHELLE SCHMIDT – SCCP/SP
18 SARAH CORREA – MTC/MG
19 TATIANA LEMOS – ECP/SP
20 TATIANE SAKEMI – ECP/SP
21 THAMMY VENTORIN – MTC/MG
Men
1 ANDRE SCHULTZ – CRF/RJ
2 BRUNO FRATUS – ECP/SP
3 CESAR CIELO Fo. – CRF/RJ
4 DIOGO YABE – MTC/MG
5 FELIPE FRANÇA SILVA – ECP/SP
6 FELIPE LIMA – MTC/MG
7 GABRIEL MANGABEIRA – ECP/SP
8 GIULIANO ROCCO – MTC/MG
9 GUILHERME GUIDO – ECP/SP
10 HENRIQUE RODRIGUES – CRF/RJ
11 KAIO ALMEIDA – FFC/RJ
12 LEONARDO DE DEUS – CRF/RJ
13 LUCAS KANIESKI – MTC/MG
14 LUIS ROGERIO ARAPIRACA – UNISANTA/SP
15 MARCOS MACEDO – SERC/SP
16 NICOLAS OLIVEIRA – MTC/MG
17 RODRIGO CASTRO – MTC/MG
18 TALES CERDEIRA – CRF/RJ
19 THIAGO PEREIRA – SCCP/SP
Coaching Staff
PROF. RICARDO DE MOURA
PROF. ALBERTO SILVA
PROF. ANDRÉ FERREIRA
PROF. ANTONIO BARBOSA
PROF. ARILSON SILVA
PROF. CARLOS MATHEUS
PROF. MARCELO VACCARI
PROF. MARCO VEIGA
DR. MARCUS BERNHOEFT
PROF. PAULO CESAR MARINHO
FT. JEAN ROMAGNOLI
VAGNER NASCIMENTO