USA Swimming Unveils Roster for 2022-23 U.S. National Junior Team

2022-23 U.S. National Junior Team

• Men’s Roster
• Women’s Roster
• Media Roster
• Selection Criteria
  • Pool 
  • Open Water 

The roster of 72 pool swimmers selected to the 2022-23 National Junior Team was announced Monday by USA Swimming. 

The squad is headlined by a handful of gold medalists from last month’s Junior Pan Pacs, including Thomas Heilman (Crozet, Virginia/Cavalier Aquatics/Piedmont Family YMCA), Anna Moesch (Green Brook, New Jersey/Greater Somerset County YMCA), Zhier Fan (Plano, Texas/Metroplex Aquatics), Maggie Wanezek (Brookfield, Wisconsin/Elmbrook Swim Club), and Maximus Williamson (Southlake, Texas/North Texas Nadadores). Justina Kozan (Brea, California/Mission Viejo Nadadores) and Williamson are the lone athletes to qualify for this year’s roster in four events.

Most of the team has experience representing the U.S. on the international level, but it will be the first National Junior Team appearance for 43 of the 72 athletes. For five swimmers — Lucy Bell, Keaton Jones, Claire Tuggle, Natalie Mannion, and Kozan — it will be their third time on the National Junior Team. 

The City of Richardson Swim Team is the most-represented club with three athletes (Giovanni Linscheer, Levi Sandidge and Campbell Chase) while California is the most-represented state with nine swimmers. 

“We are very excited to welcome the infusion of up-and-coming talent into the National Junior Team Program,” said Erik Posegay, the new program director for the USA Swimming National Junior Team. “The ’22-’23 team features numerous medalists from our 2022 Mel Zajac and Junior Pan Pacific Championships teams, as well as some fresh faces ready to make an impact this coming year. It will be exciting to build off our first full year returning to international competition and using that experience to propel us forward to next summer. It was great to see 12 National Junior Team members from the ’21-’22 squad move on to the National Team this year, and we hope to see that number continue to grow year after year.”

A total of 61 clubs and 26 states are represented on this year’s roster. It does not include any swimmers who competed at the World Championships in June or who qualified for the 2022-23 Senior National Team. 

U.S. National Junior Team Roster: Girls

U.S. National Junior Team Roster: Boys

Selection Criteria

The National Junior Team roster was picked based on long course meter times achieved between January 1, 2022 through and including August 31, 2022. Only times loaded into the USA Swimming SWIMS Database from (i) a USA Swimming sanctioned competition, (ii) a FINA approved competition, or (iii) an international competition between January 1, 2022 through August 31, 2022, to which USA Swimming sent a team as of September 1, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. (MT) were considered. Relay lead-offs, time trials and intermediate splits were not considered. Below is the in-depth performance criteria that USA Swimming used:

• Priority 1: The two athletes with the fastest times in each Olympic Event 
• Priority 2: The athletes with the third and fourth fastest times in the 100 and 200 (LCM) freestyle Priority 3: The men and women in each Olympic Event who achieve a time equal to or better than the following times. The times are 4% over the combined average of the medal winning times from the 2016 and 2020 Olympics, and the 2019 and 2022 World Championships. If the cap of 40 swimmers will be exceeded after applying Priority 3, then the following tie breaking procedure will be applied: Each athlete’s time will be applied as a percentage of the time in the below chart. The times will be ranked and athletes will be added to the team according to the ranking. Once the cap of 40 swimmers is reached, no more athletes will be added to the team. Last year’s time standards can be viewed here. 

• Priority 4: The third fastest athlete in each Olympic event not previously named to the team in Priorities 1-3. If the cap of 40 swimmers will be exceeded after applying Priority 4, then the following tie breaking procedure will be applied: Each athlete’s time will be applied as a percentage of the time in the above chart. The times will be ranked and athletes will be added to the team according to the ranking. Once the cap of 40 swimmers is reached, no more athletes will be added to the team. 
• Priority 5: The fourth fastest swimmers in each Olympic Event not previously named to the team in Priorities 1-4. If the cap of 40 swimmers will be exceeded after applying Priority 5, then the following tie breaking procedure will be applied: Each athlete’s time will be applied as a percentage of the time in the above chart. The times will be ranked and athletes will be added to the team according to the ranking. Once the cap of 40 swimmers is reached, no more athletes will be added to the team.