ISL Announces ‘Protected’ Swimmers For London Roar, LA Current Ahead of Draft

Photo Courtesy: Mine Kasapoglu / ISL

The International Swimming League continues to unveil the long lists of athletes who have accepted to be ‘protected’ by their respective clubs if chosen during the upcoming ISL Draft that begins on 29 June 2021.

Two of the 10 ISL Clubs are announcing the names of their respective ‘protected’ athletes each day of this week. ‘Protected’ athletes are the ISL Swimmers who have confirmed their commitment to remain on their current team if selected by the team’s General Manager, or if elected by the fans online, during the ISL Draft.

London Roar and LA Current are the second set of clubs to announce their lists (after Cali Condors and Energy Standard yesterday). They will be followed by Team Iron and Tokyo Frog Kings making their announcements on Wednesday 9 June, with Toronto Titans and NY Breakers on Thursday 10 June, concluding with DC Trident and Aqua Centurions on Friday 11 June.

Any registered athlete who has not committed to remain on their current team will enter the ISL Draft Pool as an ISL Rookie Swimmer, while any ISL Swimmer who has confirmed their commitment to their current ISL Team, but has not been retained, will enter the ISL Draft Pool as an ISL Veteran Swimmer.

ISL Teams will be able to retain up to a maximum of 15 ‘protected’ athletes from their Season 1 and Season 2 rosters, plus an additional ‘protected’ athlete elected via an interactive online fan vote. Teams will then be able to select 11 additional swimmers from the ISL Draft Pool during the ISL Draft, to a maximum total of 27 swimmers.

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The ISL Draft is scheduled to take place on 29-30 June 2021. One week prior, on 22 June, each of the 10 ISL Clubs will announce the first 5 swimmers from the 15 that they can ultimately retain.

Once the ISL Draft has concluded, Clubs’ General Managers will finalize their respective teams’ rosters, to a maximum of 36 swimmers each, through direct negotiations with the remaining swimmers from the ISL Draft Pool only.

You can find the full draft rules here.

The ‘protected’ athletes of London Roar and LA Current are as follows:

LONDON ROAR

Adam Peaty

Alex Graham

Alia Atkinson

Andreas Vazaios

Anna Hopkin

Annie Lazor

Bronte Campbell

Cate Campbell

Christian Diener

Darragh Greene

Duncan Scott

Elliot Clogg

Emily Large

Emma Mckeon

Freya Anderson

Guido Guilherme

Holly Barratt

Holly Hibbott

James Guy

Kathleen Dawson

Katsumi Nakamura

Kira Toussaint

Kirill Prigoda

Kyle Chalmers

Luke Greenbank

Maria Kameneva

Marie Wattel

Marius Kusch

Matthew Wilson

Mikhail Vekovischev

Minna Atherton

Sydney Pickrem

Tom Dean

Vini Lanza

LA CURRENT

Abbey Weitzeil

Ali Deloof

Aly Tetzolff

Alyssa Marsh

Anastasia Gorbenko

Andi Murez

Andrew Seliskar

Apostolos Christou

Beryl Gastaldello

Dylan Carter

Felipe Franca Silva

Fernando Scheffer

Helena Gasson

Jacob Heidtmann

Josh Prenot

Julia Sebastian

Kathleen Baker

Katie Mclaughlin

Kierra Smith

Kristian Gkolomeev

Madison Wilson

Marco Ferreira

Maxime Rooney

Mikayla Sargent

Ryan Held

Ryan Murphy

Santiago Grassi

Tom Shields

Tomoe Hvas

Will Licon

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