Canada announced their rosters for the 2015 World Championships, 2015 Pan Am Games, and 2015 FISU Games following the completion of the 2015 Canadian Team Trials.
The roster for the Worlds teams features a 24-swimmer roster. Swimmers such as Ryan Cochrane, and Katerine Savard highlight the small roster.
After enough ups-and-downs for a lifetime, Kierra Smith was named to both the Worlds team and the Pan Am Games team.
New to Canadian swimming, both Santo Condorelli and Karl Krug were also named to the worlds roster.
The Pan Am Games team features a much larger roster with 18 men and 18 women to round out it’s 36-swimmer team.
Brittany MacLean was named to the roster. She’s been battling injuries all season and wasn’t able to compete where she wanted to this weekend, meaning she made the team most likely under ‘priority 3’ of the selection criteria.
The Canadians will put forth three relays on both the men’s and women’s sides at the Pan Am Games. The Games will be held in Toronto in July.
HPC Ontario head coach Ben Titley was named the head coach of the Pan Am Games team. His swimmers went 1-2-3 in both the 50 and 100 freestyles.
For the FISU Games is sending eight men and eight women to represent Canada. Some of the stars of that team will be breakthrough swimmer Kylie Masse, Denver swim star Sam Corea, Jacomie Strydom, and Barbara Jardin.
On the men’s side James Guest, Jon McKay, Eli Wall, and Keegan Zanatta are some top swimmers who could bring success to Canada. 
Is FISU the same as World University Games??
Yes. And it’s also called Summer Universiade. 3 different names for the same Games.
Not having access to all the anecdotal, statistical and analytic information that informed all the decisions regarding the team selections, and after watching the events, I am really happy with the teams Atkinson put together. I think they exhibit a lot of thought and a strategy for the future. I am especially happy with the men’s world team; it’s nice to finally have men’s relays in the mix. It’ll just make this summer a lot more interesting.
Laine4, I’m glad you’re happy with the teams that were selected, and I have no doubt that a lot of thought went into the decisions. I’ll be rooting for them when the meets come, I assure you!
But the selection criteria were clearly not followed! On the one hand, I’m glad, because the time standards were ridiculous and Canada’s team would be tiny if they had been followed. On the other hand, especially on the men’s side, if I won a Canadian title, which means I’m the best in my nation at what I do, and swum a time under the FINA A standard on their website, but I was not chosen for Canada’s World Team because somebody thought… Read more »
I totally agree with DANJOHNROB. I think it’s terrible the way several swimmers narrowly missed the top 16 time, to be overwhelmingly disappointed and frustrated for days, only to be added to the team after an agonizing wait on Saturday night anyway. They should have been able to celebrate their success immediately, instead of suffering in disappointment. Not a nice way to treat our best swimmers.
The criteria shows a budget for 52 swimmers!!!!!!
It is ridiculous to say that a guy in an office tells the country there is $’s for 52 swimmers and then tries to put as few people on the team as possible.
Canada not sending their best 4 x 200 Men’s Free relay is crazy.
And it seems we’re all accepting the fact that Atkinson who has written Priority 4 in a way that tells Canadians, swimmers like Condorelli are relay swimmers and then tells Fina they’re swimming two individuals events at Worlds and are not relay only swimmers is as Matt says in his article not acceptable.
In fact if 52 swimmers don’t go Swim Canada in… Read more »
First, I want to echo Marley09 and Matt Swanston’s comments thanking SwimSwam and Mitch Bowmile for guiding us through the confusing mess that was called Canadian World Trials.
Second, I want to congratulate the Canadian swimmers! There were a LOT of athletes who dealt well with having to swim at NCAA Champ’s (which are VERY draining) and this meet in quick succession. Perhaps the Canadian Collegiate Champ’s also conflicted (sorry, I don’t know about that). There were also a LOT of promising young talents who made big time drops and may play key roles on Canada’s Olympic Team next year. Canada should be proud of their wonderful representatives!
I went to bed, after the livestream died without an announcement (I’d… Read more »
I totally agree. The meet looked very exciting, I saw a lot of fast swims, and the pool and livestream were both beautiful.
As for selection, I predicted this exact process would happen back in January.
http://matthewswanston25.com/2015/01/15/a-warning-for-canadian-swimmers/
DanJohnRob, you might be interested in reading that now.
Matt, you were 100% correct in your prediction! What I don’t understand is, isn’t there a board or committee who has to approve these selection procedures? If there is, they did NOT read the fine print!
You know, if they had really stuck to the selection criteria as written, I would have thought they were too severe, but I would have thought the procedure was fair; however, because they did NOT follow them, if any of those athletes selected who did not make the Top16 standard swims an individual event, if I was an event winner that didn’t make the team I’d get a lawyer and sue!
And I love Kierra Smith, but if she gets to swim the 200… Read more »
Had Canada employed Australian worlds qualifying standards, only four swimmers would have qualified, but only just:
Martha mcCabe (200 breast), Noemi Thomas (100 fly), Dominique Bouchard (100 and 200 back), and Ryan Cochrane (400 free)
^thats exactly what loginov would say
I read “subject” and not “name”
Im obviously not Loginov
Condorelli is not “American”. He was born in Japan. The first passport he ever got was Canadian. Most of his family lives in Kenora Ontario.
Loginov did great in the 50, but he didn’t make the 100 final. Krug’s time in the 50 was only 1tenth faster, but at least he made the 100 final, albeit only in 5th place. Anyway, that’s my guess why Loginov isn’t on the World Team, but I wish him good luck at Pan Am’s and in his training!
If we get really cynical – until Krug and Condorelli compete internationally for Canada, they’re free to hop back to American sporting citizenship as they please. By putting them on the Worlds team, and encouraging them to compete for Canada, the red tape to trying again for Team USA becomes a bigger burden.
Thanks, Braden, I didn’t think of that. I did note last night, however, that Condorelli’s 100 free time at this Trials, although below the supposed World Team qualifying time, would have made him the #4 swimmer on the US 4×100 free relay, bumping Lochte (at least per the TYR World Rankings).
This WAS the first LCM meet of the season for Condorelli and Krug, and the meet did conflict with the NCAA meet in terms of preparation. I think they can do better. Perhaps one of the “high performance” director’s jobs is recruiting to fill immediate holes in Canada’s line-up? I guess that’s TOO cynical. Sorry!
krug has been long time done with ncaa swimming
Weirdo, Really, I assumed he just finished his senior season with Auburn. I apologize for my mistake.
If Atkinson decided to bring American swimmers condorelli and krug, Why not bring the one swimmer most likely able to go to semis with 4-5 months more work till worlds? Loginov?!
Where is Taylor Ruck??? Is she to young to swim at pan am’s????
It doesn’t look like any of the Junior World Team athletes were chosen for the World or Pan Pac Teams.
Markus Thormeyer is the only one on the Junior Worlds team and Pan Ams team.
Thanks, I guess I missed that! I don’t know any of the dates or the feasibility of athletes swimming in Jr Worlds amd Pan Am’s, but I think for Taylor and Penny, getting back into training ASAP to try to make big improvements in time for Olympic Trials would be the most important thing.