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2015 Pan American Games usaswimming.org l @USASwimming l @USASwimLive l #TO2015 Event Schedule Sat., July 11: 3:30 p.m. Thurs., July 16: 10 a.m. prelims, 7 p.m. finals Women’s 10K 400m Individual Medley 100m Butterfly Sun., July 12: 3:30 p.m. Women’s 800m Freestyle Relay Men’s 10K Fri., July 17: 10 a.m. prelims, 7 p.m. finals Table of Contents Tues., July 14: 10 a.m. prelims, 7 p.m. finals 100m Backstroke Page 1: Event Schedule, etc. 100m Freestyle 400m Freestyle Page 2: Team USA Roster 200m Butterfly 100m Breaststroke Page 3: Meet Notes 400m Freestyle Relay 50m Freestyle Page 4: The Last Time ... Page 5: Event-by-Event Superlatives Wed., July 15: 10 a.m. prelims, 7 p.m. finals Sat., July 18: 10 a.m. prelims, 7 p.m. finals Page 7: Athlete Bios 200m Freestyle Women’s 800m Freestyle Page 48: Coaching Staff 200m Breaststroke 200m Individual Medley Page 49: All-Time Pan Am Medalists 200m Backstroke Men’s 1500m Freestyle Page 53: World & American Records Men’s 800m Freestyle Relay 400m Medley Relay Record Progressions: usaswimming.org ESPN Coverage Quick Facts ESPN and ESPN Deportes team What: 2015 Pan American Games up for an unprecedented Olympic- When: July 11-18, 2015 (swimming) style production to deliver complete Where: Toronto, Canada multiplatform coverage of the 2015 Pool: CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Aquatics Centre Pan American Games from Toronto, Open Water: Ontario Place West Channel starting Friday, July 10 at 7:30 p.m. ET with the Opening Ceremony live on Pool Format: Long Course Meters (50m) ESPN and ESPN Deportes. About the Pan American Games: ESPN and ESPN2 will present 66 The Pan American Games are the world’s third-largest international multisport Games; live coverage hours. Between July they are only surpassed in size and scope by the Olympic Summer Games and the Asian 11-25, ESPN2 will present two to six Games. The first Pan American Games were held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1951 and hours of daily live coverage, including the inaugural Parapan American Games were held in Mexico City in 1999. Both the Pan swimming. The network will also Am and Parapan Am Games are held every four years for the athletes of the 41 PASO present daily highlights of all medal member nations, in the year preceding the Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games. winners and the action across every venue. USA Swimming Media Contact: Every Pan American coverage option on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, Longhorn John Martin Network, ESPN Deportes and ESPN Sports Communications Manager Deportes+ will also be available (719) 362-6422 through WatchESPN, accessible on [email protected] computers, smartphones, tablets and additional devices. 2015 Pan American Games 1 2015 Pan American Games Roster usaswimming.org l @USASwimming l @USASwimLive l #TO2015 Women’s Roster Name Event(s) Hometown Club @Twitter Emily Brunemann 10K Crescent Springs, Ky. Club Wolverine @EmilyBrunemann Natalie Coughlin 50/100 FR Vallejo, Calif. California Aquatics @NatalieCoughlin Gia Dalesandro 100 FL Naperville, Ill. Indiana University Swim Team @giadalesandro Eva Fabian 10K Keene, N.H. Greenwood Memorial Swim Club/Yale @evafabian_swim Courtney Harnish 800 FR York, Pa. York YMCA Kiera Janzen 200/400 FR White Bear Lake, Minn. Minnesota Aquatics @Kiera_Janzen Madison Kennedy 50 FR Avon, Conn. SwimMAC Carolina @madisonjkennedy Annie Lazor 100/200 BR Beverly Hills, Mich. Auburn University Swim Club @lazorlaze Caitlin Leverenz 200/400 IM Tucson, Ariz. California Aquatics @cleverenz Katie Meili 100 BR Colleyville, Texas SwimMAC Carolina/Columbia @katemeili Kate Mills 200 FL; 400 IM Sacramento, Calif. SwimMAC Carolina Gillian Ryan 400 FR Kutztown, Pa. Club Wolverine Sierra Schmidt 800 FR Erdenheim, Pa. North Baltimore Aquatic Club Allison Schmitt 200 FR Canton, Mich. North Baltimore Aquatic Club @arschmitty Meghan Small 200 BR; 200 IM Lineboro, Md. York YMCA Clara Smiddy 100/200 BK Miami, Fla. Club Wolverine @clarabear96 Olivia Smoliga 100 BK Glenview, Ill. Athens Bulldog Swim Club/Georgia @OliviaSmoliga Kylie Stewart 200 BK; 200 FL Atlanta, Ga. Dynamo Swim Club Amanda Weir 100 FR Lawrenceville, Ga. SwimAtlanta @AmandaJoWeir Kelsi Worrell 100 FL Mt. Holly, N.J. Cardinal Aquatics @kelsiwhirl Men’s Roster Name Event(s) Hometown Club @Twitter Gunnar Bentz 200 IM Atlanta, Ga. Dynamo Swim Club/Georgia @TheGunnyBunny Bobby Bollier 200 FL Mission Hills, Kan. Stanford Swimming Brad Craig 100/200 BR Midland, Mich. Tennessee Aquatics @bradcraig14 Ryan Feeley 400/1500 FR Rye, N.Y. Badger Swim Club/Michigan @RyanJFeeley Andrew Gemmell 1500 FR Wilmington, Del. Nation’s Capital Swim Club @ADGemmell Eugene Godsoe 100 BK/100 FL Greensboro, N.C. Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics @EugeneGodsoe Carter Griffin 200 BK Parker, Colo. University of Denver Hilltoppers David Heron 10K Mission Viejo, Calif. Tennessee Aquatics/Mission Viejo @_davidheron_ BJ Johnson 100/200 BR Seattle, Wash. Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics/Stanford Cullen Jones 50/100 FR Irvington, N.J. SwimMAC Carolina @CullenJones Michael Klueh 200/400 FR Evansville, Ind. Club Wolverine @mklueh Sean Lehane 200 BK Naperville, Ill. Tennessee Aquatics Chip Peterson 10K Pine Knoll Shores, N.C. North Carolina Aquatic Club @chippopotamus_ Josh Schneider 50 FR Cincinnati, Ohio New York Athletic Club/Cincinnati @JoshSchneider5 Giles Smith 100 FL Baltimore, Md. Phoenix Swim Club @GilesSmith43 Ty Stewart 200 FL; 200 IM Hattiesburg, Miss. Athens Bulldog Swim Club Nick Thoman 100 BK Cincinnati, Ohio Tucson Ford Dealers Aquatics @Nick_Thoman Darian Townsend 100 FR Phoenix, Ariz. YMCA Westside Silver Fins @dariantownsend Michael Weiss 200 FR; 400 IM Reno, Nev. Wisconsin Aquatics/Lakeridge @Mt_Weiss Max Williamson 400 IM Ft. Mitchell, Ky. Stanford Swimming @max_williamson Coaching Staff Women’s Head Coach: Jason Turcotte (Dynamo Swim Club) Women’s Assistant Coaches: Arthur Albiero (Louisville), Michael Brooks (York YMCA) Men’s Head Coach: Matt Kredich (Tennessee/Tennessee Aquatics) Men’s Assistant Coaches: Bob Groseth (SwimMAC Carolina), Ted Knapp (Stanford/Stanford Swimming), Greg Rhodenbaugh (Missouri) Open Water Head Coach: Jack Fabian (Greenwood Swimming/Keene State) Note: Relay teams will be selected by the coaching staff. 2 2015 Pan American Games Meet Notes usaswimming.org l @USASwimming l @USASwimLive l #TO2015 Team USA Looks to Remain Atop Pan Am Medal Count Texas, to help spread this message as a part of the USA Swimming At the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, Team USA Foundation’s Make a Splash Tour Presented by Phillips 66. topped the swimming medal count with 44 medals in the pool - 20 more than runner-up Brazil - and also won 18 of the 32 gold medals awarded. Five members of that team return in Toronto. Team USA By the Numbers Male Female Team Legendary Coughlin to Make Pan Am Debut Team Size 20 20 40 Twelve-time Olympic medalist Natalie Coughlin has just about Average Age 24.6 22.25 23.43 done it all in her swimming career, but she will make her Pan American Oldest Athletes (a) Cullen Jones, 32 Natalie Coughlin, 33 Games debut in Toronto, where she is slated to swim the 50m and February 29, 1984 August 23, 1982 100m free. She enters the meet seeded No. 2 in the 100m free and sixth Youngest Athletes (a) Gunnar Bentz, 19 Courtney Harnish, 16 in the 50m free. Coughlin is a three-time Olympian (2004, 2008 and January 3, 1996 April 17, 1999 2012) and is gearing up for a run at a fourth Games roster next summer. # of Total Olympians 4 4 8 With 12 career Olympic medals, she is tied with Dara Torres and Jenny Thompson for the most by an American female swimmer. # of Olympic Medalists 3 4 7 # of Olympic Gold Medalists 3 2 5 Decorated U.S. Roster Headed to Toronto # of 2012 Olympians 4 4 8 The Team USA roster headed to Toronto includes eight Olympians, # of 2011 Pan Am Games Team Members 2 3 5 who have qualified for a combined 15 Olympic teams over the course National Team Rookies (b) 6 9 15 of their decorated careers. Coughlin and Darian Townsend, formerly of South Africa, are three-time Olympians, while Cullen Jones, Allison (a) At the start of the competition (July 11, 2015) Schmitt and Amanda Weir are two-timers. Five of the Olympians are (b) Has never competed for the U.S. at a senior-level international competition gold medalists, with Coughlin and Schmitt claiming individual gold medals. Pan American Games Team History Two-Time Participants (8) A Springboard to Rio? Eva Fabian (2011-15) Time will tell if the 2015 Pan American Games will serve as a Ryan Feeley (2011-15) springboard to success next summer, but a quartet of swimmers made Eugene Godsoe (2011-15) the most of their 2011 Pan Am Games experience and went on to earn a Madison Kennedy (2011-15) spot on the U.S. roster for the 2012 Olympic Games - Rachel Bootsma, Caitlin Leverenz (2007-15) Claire Donahue, Conor Dwyer and Charlie Houchin. All four walked Chip Peterson (2007-15) away from London as Olympic relay medalists for Team USA. Gillian Ryan (2011-15) Amanda Weir (2003-15) Mr. & Mrs. Team USA USA Swimming National Team members Emily Brunemann and Olympic Team History Michael Klueh were married in September 2014 and will spend this Three-Time Olympians (2) summer representing Team USA at the Pan American Games and FINA Natalie Coughlin (2004-08-12) World Championships. In Toronto, Klueh will swim the 200m and 400m Darian Towsend (2004-08-12) - Represented South Africa free, while Brunemann tackles the 10-kilometer open water race. At Two-Time Olympians (3) the Kazan, Russia, FINA World Championships, Klueh made the roster Cullen Jones (2008-12) in the 800m free relay, and Brunemann will swim the 25K open water Allison Schmitt (2008-12) event.