2012 Olympic Games - U.S. Swim Team Table of Contents 2012 Olympic Games - Swimming Schedule Order of Events pg. 1 U.S. Swim Team Roster pg. 2 Pool Competition Team USA Notes pg. 3 Prelims will begin at 10:00am local time; Finals will start at approximately 7:30pm local time Olympic Team Selection pg. 3 All pool competitions will take place at the London Aquatics Centre U.S. Olympic Superlatives pg. 4-5 Olympic Schedule pg. 6 Saturday, July 28 Wednesday, August 1 Men’s 400m IM Men’s 400m IM - FINAL Women’s 100m Free Men’s 200m Breast - FINAL What is “Warm Down”? pg. 7 Women’s 100m Fly Women’s 100m Fly - Semi Men’s 200m Back Women’s 100m Free - Semi Open Water Swim History pg. 7 Men’s 400m Free Men’s 400m Free - FINAL Women’s 200m Breast Men’s 200m Back - Semi Women’s 400m IM Women’s 400m IM - FINAL Men’s 200m IM Women’s 200m Fly - FINAL Athlete Bios pg. 8-59 Men’s 100m Breast Men’s 100m Breast - Semi Women’s 4x200m Free Relay Men’s 100m Free - FINAL Women’s 4x100m Free Relay Women’s 4x100m Free Relay FINAL Women’s 200m Breast - Semi Coaches Bios pg. 60-61 Men’s 200m IM - Semi Sunday, July 29 Women’s 4x100m Free Relay - FINAL 2012 Olympic Trials Results Women’s 100m Back Women’s 100m Fly - FINAL Men’s 200m Free Men’s 200m Free - Semi Thursday, August 2 Women pg. 62 Women’s 100m Breast Women’s 100m Breast - Semi Men’s 50m Free Men’s 50m Free - Semi Men pg. 63 Men’s 100m Back Men’s 100m Breast - FINAL Women’s 800m Free Women’s 200m Breast - FINAL Women’s 400m Free Women’s 400m Free - FINAL Men’s 100m Fly Men’s 200m Back - FINAL Olympic History Men’s 4x100m Free Relay Men’s 100m Back - Semi Women’s 200m Back Women’s 200m Back - Semi Olympic Medal Count pg. 64-65 Women’s 100m Back - Semi Men’s 200m IM - FINAL Men’s 4x100m Free Relay - FINAL Women’s 100m Free - FINAL Olympic Medalists Men’s 100m Fly – Semi Women pg. 66-69 Monday, July 30 Men pg. 70-74 Women’s 200m Free Women’s 200m Free - Semi Friday, August 3 Men’s 200m Fly Men’s 200m Free - FINAL Women’s 50m Free Women’s 200m Back - FINAL Discontinued Events pg. 74 Women’s 200m IM Women’s 100m Back - FINAL Men’s 1500m Free Men’s 100m Fly - FINAL Men’s 100m Back - FINAL Women’s 4x100m Medley Relay Women’s 800m Free - FINAL Times History Women’s 100m Breast - FINAL Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay Men’s 50m Free - FINAL Records pg. 75-76 Men’s 200m Fly - Semi Women’s 50m Free – Semi World, American and Olympic Women’s 200m IM -- Semi Times History, Event Progressions Saturday, August 4 Tuesday, July 31 No Preliminaries Women’s 50m Free - FINAL Women pg. 77-93 Men’s 100m Free Men’s 100m Free - Semi Men’s 1500m Free – FINAL Men pg. 94-110 Women’s 200m Fly Women’s 200m Free - FINAL Women’s 4x100m Medley Relay - FINAL Men’s 200m Breast Men’s 200m Fly - FINAL Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay - FINAL Men’s 4x200m Free Relay Women’s 200m Fly - Semi Men’s 200m Breast - Semi Women’s 200m IM - FINAL USA SWIMMING CONTACTS: Men’s 4x200m Free Relay - FINAL Karen Linhart PR & Social Media Director [email protected] London Cell: 07714141854 Matt Whewell PR & Digital Communications 10K Marathon Swim Competition Coordinator All 10K Open Water Marathon Swims will commence at 12:00pm local time [email protected] Thursday, August 9 Friday, August 10 London Cell: 07714141860 Women’s 10K Marathon Swim Hyde Park, London, U.K Men’s 10K Marathon Swim Hyde Park, London, U.K 2012 Olympic Games - U.S. Swim Team 1 2012 U.S. Swim Team Roster Women Name Age ** Hometown Event(s) Cammile Adams 20 Cypress, Texas 200 Fly Alyssa Anderson 21 Granite Bay, Calif. 800 FR-R Haley Anderson 20 Granite Bay, Calif. 10k Open Water Elizabeth Beisel 19 Saunderstown, R.I. 200 Back, 400 IM Rachel Bootsma 18 Eden Prairie, Minn. 100 Back Natalie Coughlin 29 Vallejo, Calif. 400 FR-R Claire Donahue 23 Lenoir City, Tenn. 100 Fly Missy Franklin 17 Centennial, Colo. 100/200 Free,100/200 Back, 400 FR-R, 800 FR-R Jessica Hardy 25 Long Beach, Calif. 50 Free, 100 Free, 400 FR-R Kathleen Hersey 22 Atlanta, Ga. 200 Fly Kara Lynn Joyce 26 Athens, Ga. 50 Free Ariana Kukors 23 Auburn, Wash. 200 IM Breeja Larson 20 Mesa, Ariz. 100 Breast Micah Lawrence 22 Pflugerville, Texas 200 Breast Katie Ledecky 15 Bethesda, Md. 800 Free Caitlin Leverenz 21 Tuscon, Ariz. 400 IM, 200 IM Lia Neal 17 New York, N.Y. 400 FR-R Lauren Perdue 21 Greenville, N.C. 800 FR-R Allison Schmitt 22 Canton, Mich. 400 Free, 200 Free, 400 FR-R, 800 FR-R Rebecca Soni 25 Plainsboro, N.J. 100 Breast, 200 Breast Chloe Sutton 20 Mission Viejo, Calif. 400 Free Dana Vollmer 24 Granbury, Texas 100 Fly, 800 FR-R Shannon Vreeland 20 Overland Park, Kan. 800 FR-R Amanda Weir 26 Lawrenceville, Ga. 400 FR-R Kate Ziegler 24 Great Falls, Va. 800 Free Women’s Head Coach: Teri McKeever Women’s Assistant Coach: Steve Bultman, Dave Salo, Todd Schmitz Men Name Age ** Hometown Event(s) Nathan Adrian 23 Bremerton, Wash. 100 Free, 400 FR-R Ricky Berens 24 Charlotte, N.C. 800 FR-R, 400 FR-R, 200 Free Clark Burckle 24 Louisville, Ky. 200 Breast Tyler Clary 23 Riverside, Calif. 200 Fly, 200 Back Conor Dwyer 23 Winnetka, Ill. 400 Free, 800 FR-R Anthony Ervin 31 Valencia, Calif. 50 Free Jimmy Feigen 22 San Antonio, Texas 400 FR-R Andrew Gemmell 21 Wilmington, Del. 1500 Free Matt Grevers 27 Lake Forest, Ill. 100 Back, 400 FR-R Brendan Hansen 30 Havertown, Pa. 100 Breast Charlie Houchin 24 Raleigh, N.C. 800 FR-R Connor Jaeger 21 Fair Haven, N.J. 1500 Free Cullen Jones 28 Irvington, N.J. 50 Free, 100 Free, 400 FR-R Jason Lezak 36 Irvine, Calif. 400 FR-R Ryan Lochte 27 Daytona Beach, Fla. 200 Back, 200 IM, 400 IM, 200 Free, 800 FR-R Tyler McGill 24 Champaign, Ill. 100 Fly Matt McLean 24 Sterling, Va. 800 Fr-R Alex Meyer 24 Ithaca, N.Y. 10k Open Water Michael Phelps 27 Baltimore, Md. 200IM, 400 IM, 100 Fly, 200 Fly Eric Shanteau 28 Lilburn, Ga. 100 Breast Davis Tarwater 28 Knoxville, Tenn. 800 FR-R Nick Thoman 26 Cincinnati, Ohio 100 Back Peter Vanderkaay 28 Rochester, Mich. 400 Free Scott Weltz 25 San Jose, Calif. 200 Breast Men’s Head Coach: Gregg Troy Men’s Assistant Coach: Bob Bowman, David Marsh, Eddie Reese Head Open Water Coach: Tim Murphy * All relay events will be determined by the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Coaching Staff ** Age as of the first day of the event (July 28, 2012) 2 USA Swimming Team USA Notes & Selection Procedures Team USA By the Numbers How do swimmers qualify for the U.S. Olympic Team at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Swimming? Team Size Average Age Male: 24 Male: 25.8 There is an official document posted on usaswimming.org and available Female: 25 Female: 21.6 in the Media Center that outlines the official USOC qualifying procedure Overall: 49 Overall: 23.7 for athletes trying to make the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team. Oldest Athletes The below is provided as an unofficial explanation written for the fan *As of the start of the competition (July 28, 2012). program by SPLASH editor, Jim Rusnak. Male: Jason Lezak; 36 years old (November 12, 1975) Female: Natalie Coughlin; 29 years old (August 23, 1982) 1. Athletes must qualify for and compete at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Swimming, held June 25-July 2, in Omaha, Neb. If you Youngest Athletes don’t compete here, you cannot make the Olympic Team in the pool *As of the start of the competition (July 28, 2012). Male: Connor Jaeger; 21 years old (April 30, 1991) events. Open Water Trials are a separate affair and have already been Female: Katie Ledecky; 15 years old (March 17, 1997) contested. 2. Swimmers who finish in the top four of the 100- and 200-meter Olympic Team History freestyle at Trials, along with the first-place finishers in all the other FOUR: (2) events are named to the team first, provided they achieve a FINA Jason Lezak (2012, 2008, 2004, 2000) Olympic Qualifying Time Standard. Michael Phelps (2012, 2008, 2004, 2000) 3. A maximum of 26 men and 26 women can be named to the Olympic THREE: (5) Team, so provided all the spots have not been filled by the top four Natalie Coughlin (2012, 2008, 2004) finishers in the 100 and 200m free and the first-place finishers in all the Brendan Hansen (2012, 2008, 2004) rest of the events, the second place finishers in each of the other events Kara Lynn Joyce (2012, 2008, 2004) will be added to the team in a priority order based on an integrated world Ryan Lochte (2012, 2008, 2004) ranking from 2011 and 2012. Peter Vanderkaay (2012, 2008, 2004) 4. If, after adding the second-place finishers from each of the other TWO: (14) events there is still room on the team, the fifth place finishers from the Nathan Adrian (2012, 2008) 100 and 200m free are added (using the same world ranking as listed Elizabeth Beisel (2012, 2008) in #3 above).