2018 Phillips 66 National Championships usaswimming.org l @USASwimming l @USASwimLive l #Phillips66Nats l #FiredUp Event Schedule Daily: Prelims 9 a.m. PDT; Finals 6 p.m. Friday, July 27 400m Individual Medley Tuesday, July 24 100m Butterfly Pre-Meet Press Conferences 50m Breaststroke 50m Backstroke Wednesday, July 25 200m Butterfly Saturday, July 28 100m Freestyle 400m Freestyle Women’s 800m Freestyle 100m Breaststroke Men’s 1500m Freestyle 100m Backstroke Quick Facts Thursday, July 26 Sunday, July 29 What: 2018 Phillips 66 National 200m Freestyle Women’s 1500m Freestyle Championships 200m Breaststroke 200m Individual Medley When: Wed., July 25-Sun., July 29 200m Backstroke Men’s 800m Freestyle Where: William Woollett, Jr. Aquatic 50m Butterfly 50m Freestyle Center (4601 Walnut Avenue) Format: 50 meters (Olympic format) Media Information USA Swimming on Social Media: Credentials • Event Hashtag: #Phillips66Nats Media credentials will be available for pick up at the meet registration desk beginning at 8 a.m. PDT • Twitter: @USASwimming, on Tuesday, July 24. Questions can be directed to John Martin of USA Swimming at 719-362-6422. @USASwimLive • Instagram: @USASwimming Media Work Areas • Snapchat: usaswimming The media work room with power and wireless Internet access is located in the dance studio at • Facebook: Facebook.com/ Irvine High School, which is adjacent to the pool facility. Additionally, tabled seating with power USASwimming and wireless Internet access will be reserved for media members in the concrete stands on the • YouTube: YouTube.com/ start-finish end of the pool. Wireless Internet details will be provided at meet check-in. A light USASwimming breakfast and dinner will be provided Wednesday through Sunday in the media work room. Interviews Table of Contents Requested athletes will be available following each race during finals. In the case where an athlete 1: Schedule of Events, etc. has another race upcoming in the session, that athlete will be available following his/her final race. 2: Meet Preview All interview requests should be coordinated through the USA Swimming communications staff and must be conducted in a USA Swimming-designated area. 3: Meet Notes 4: National Team Rosters About the Facility William Woollett, Jr. Aquatics Center was completed as a major renovation of the original Heritage 6: Event Superlatives Park Aquatics Complex, site of the 1980 U.S. National Championships. The newly renovated center 7: 2018-19 Int’l Selection Procedures was completed in September 2004. The center is an outdoor facility consisting of one constant depth (7 feet) competition pool (50m x 25y), and variable-depth, warm-up pool (50m x 25y). The 8: 2018 Pan Pacific Championships facility was the site of the 2005, 2006, 2010 Conoco Phillips National Championships, 2014 Phillips 9: National Team Staff 66 National Championships; 2005, 2006, 2010, 2013 and 2014 Speedo Junior Nationals; 2005 10: All-Time National Champions Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool; 2010 Pan Pacific Championships and 2013 U.S. Open. 18: U.S. Open, American & World USA Swimming On-Site Communications Contacts Records Belle McLemore ([email protected], 702-540-0905) 20: World & American Record John Martin ([email protected], 719-362-6422) Progressions Melissa Katz ([email protected], 908-208-2146) Kara Raney ([email protected], 719-358-3340) 2018 Phillips 66 National Championships 1 Event Preview usaswimming.org l @USASwimming l @USASwimLive l #Phillips66Nats l #FiredUp 2018 Phillips 66 National Championships Set for Irvine July 25-29 event to determine 2018 Pan Pacs, 2019 World Champs rosters COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Arguably the most important domestic swimming competition ahead of Top 2018 Phillips 66 Nationals Qualifiers Women Time Event Time Men the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming, USA Simone Manuel 23.97 50 FR 21.15 Caeleb Dressel Swimming’s 2018 Phillips 66 National Championships, Simone Manuel 52.27 100 FR 47.17 Caeleb Dressel will be held July 25-29 at the William Woollett, Jr. Katie Ledecky 1:54.69 200 FR 1:45.03 Townley Haas Aquatic Center in Irvine, California. Katie Ledecky 3:57.94 400 FR 3:44.43 Zane Grothe Katie Ledecky 8:07.27 800 FR 7:50.43 Clark Smith The nation’s top swimmers will be competing for Katie Ledecky 15:20.48 1500 FR 14:59.73 True Sweetser national titles, as well as spots on the United States’ Kathleen Baker 58.54 100 BK 52.26 Matt Grevers roster for this summer’s Pan Pacific Championships and Kathleen Baker 2:06.38 200 BK 1:54.21 Ryan Murphy the 2019 FINA World Championships. Lilly King 1:04.13 100 BR 58.64 Kevin Cordes Bethany Galat 2:21.77 200 BR 2:07.41 Kevin Cordes Among the No. 1-ranked individual event qualifiers Kelsi Dahlia 56.37 100 FL 49.86 Caeleb Dressel are 2016 Olympic champions Lilly King (Evansville, Hali Flickinger 2:07.60 200 FL 1:54.47 Jack Conger Ind./Indiana University), Katie Ledecky (Bethesda, Melanie Margalis 2:08.70 200 IM 1:55.56 Chase Kalisz Md./Stanford Swimming), Simone Manuel (Sugar Leah Smith 4:33.86 400 IM 4:05.90 Chase Kalisz Land, Texas/Stanford Swimming) and Ryan Murphy *Qualifying June 1, 2017, through entry deadline (Jacksonville, Fla./California Aquatics), as well as 2017 world champions Caeleb Dressel (Green Cove Springs, Fla./Bolles School Sharks) and Chase Kalisz (Bel Air, Md./Athens Bulldog Swim Club). More than 30 Olympic medalists are among the 1,300-plus qualifiers for Phillips 66 Nationals. Among qualified swimmers, Olympic gold medalists Nathan Adrian (Bremerton, Wash./California Aquatics) and Missy Franklin (Centennial, Colo./Athens Bulldog Swim Club) lead with way with 15 career long-course national titles each. Daily prelims begin at 9 a.m. PDT, followed by nightly finals at 6 p.m. PDT, and each day. This meet serves as the qualifier for the U.S. team in the pool competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Championships, which run from Aug. 9-12 in Tokyo. The winner of each Olympic event will claim an automatic spot on the roster, and a complete team selection procedure is outlined at usaswimming.org. The combined results of the Phillips 66 National Championships and the Pan Pacific Championships will determine the roster for the 2019 FINA World Championships. NBC Sports will provide extensive daily broadcast coverage of Phillips 66 Nationals across NBC, NBC Sports Network and the Olympic Channel. Daily prelims will be streamed live via usaswimming.org. USA Swimming will produce Deck Pass Live segments following each prelim and finals session and will debut a unique preview show live from the expanded fan zone. The shows will stream free of charge on usaswimming.org and via Facebook Live. The 2018 Phillips 66 National Championships is part of the 2018 Team USA Summer Champions Series, presented by Xfinity. The champions series showcases numerous Olympic sports throughout the season, highlighting the year-round quest of Team USA athletes to compete at the Olympic Games. Women’s Career LCM Titles 8. Missy Franklin 15 Men’s Career LCM Titles 8. Brendan Hansen 14 9. Dara Torres 15 Ryan Lochte 14 1. Janet Evans 39 10. Brooke Bennett 14 1. Michael Phelps 61 9. Lenny Krayzelburg 13 2. Tracy Caulkins 27 11. Katie Ledecky 13 2. Chad Carvin 18 Mel Stewart 13 3. Jenny Thompson 23 3. Tom Dolan 16 4. Diana Munz 21 Tom Wilkens 16 Note: Results date to 1962. 5. Katie Hoff 19 5. Nathan Adrian 15 Mary T. Meagher 19 Aaron Peirsol 15 7. Natalie Coughlin 16 Mark Spitz 15 2 2018 Phillips 66 National Championships Meet Notes usaswimming.org l @USASwimming l @USASwimLive l #Phillips66Nats l #FiredUp Olympic Medalists are Top Qualifiers Phillips 66 Nationals Broadcast Schedule Among the qualifiers for the 2018 Phillips 66 Nationals Date Network Time (ET) Live or Delay Streaming* are 33 Olympic medalists, who have combined to win 87 Wednesday, July 25 Olympic Channel 9 p.m. Live NBC App Olympic medals - 59 of them gold. The multiple-time gold Wednesday, July 25 NBCSN 11 p.m. Delay Thursday, July 26 Olympic Channel 9 p.m. Live NBC App medalists include: Thursday, July 26 NBCSN 11 p.m. Delay Friday, July 27 Olympic Channel 9 p.m. Live NBC App • Ryan Lochte: 6 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze - 12 total Friday, July 27 NBCSN 11 p.m. Delay • Nathan Adrian: 5 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze - 8 total Saturday, July 28 NBC 3 p.m. Delay Saturday, July 28 Olympic Channel 10 p.m. Delay NBC App • Katie Ledecky: 5 gold, 1 silver - 6 total Sunday, July 29 NBCSN 1 a.m. Delay • Missy Franklin: 5 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze - 6 total Sunday, July 29 NBC 3 p.m. Delay • Matt Grevers: 4 gold, 2 silver - 6 total Sunday, July 29 Olympic Channel 9 p.m. Live NBC App • Anthony Ervin: 3 gold, 1 silver - 4 total Monday, July 30 NBCSN 6 p.m. Delay *All prelim sessions will be streamed live at USASwimming.org • Ryan Murphy: 3 gold - 3 total • Cullen Jones: 2 gold, 2 silver - 4 total Six World Records Set in Irvine • Simone Manuel: 2 gold, 2 silver - 4 total Since 1980, six all-time world records have been set in Irvine, • Conor Dwyer: 2 gold, 1 silver - 3 total including Katie Ledecky’s first 400m freestyle record set in • Caeleb Dressel: 2 gold - 2 total 2014: • Lilly King: 2 gold - 2 total • 2014: Katie Ledecky, 400 FR (3:58.86) Ledecky Looks to Add to Title Collection • 2006: Brendan Hansen, 100 BR (59.13) Five-time Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky will look to add • 2006: Brendan Hansen, 200 BR (2:08.74) to her national title collection in Irvine.