USA Swimming Announces Captains for Tokyo: Dressel, Manuel, Murphy, Schmitt
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USA Swimming has announced its national team captains for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. Caeleb Dressel, Simone Manuel, Ryan Murphy and Allison Schmitt were selected as the team captains.
The announcement was made on social media in a video where fellow Olympian Hunter Armstrong used card tricks to show the captains.
All four captains are two-time Olympians with the exception of Schmitt, who made the team for the fourth time. All four have won gold medals.
The squad that will represent the United States at the Olympic Games in Tokyo is currently taking part in training camp in Hawaii. Here is a reminder of who will swim which individual events when the Games get underway later this month.
Men’s Team
- Michael Andrew – 100 breast, 200 IM, 50 free
- Zach Apple – 100, 4×200 free
- Hunter Armstrong – 100 back
- Bowe Becker – 4×100 free
- Gunnar Bentz – 200 fly
- Michael Brinegar – 800, 1500 free
- Patrick Callan – 4×200 free
- Brooks Curry – 4×100 free
- Caeleb Dressel – 50, 100 free, 100 fly
- Nic Fink – 200 breast
- Bobby Finke – 800, 1500 free
- Townley Haas – 200 free
- Zach Harting – 200 fly
- Chase Kalisz – 200, 400 IM
- Drew Kibler – 4×200 free
- Jay Litherland – 400 IM
- Bryce Mefford – 200 back
- Jake Mitchell – 400 free
- Ryan Murphy – 100, 200 back
- Blake Pieroni – 4×100 free
- Andrew Seliskar – 4×200 free
- Tom Shields – 100 fly
- Kieran Smith – 200, 400 free
- Jordan Wilimovsky – 10K
- Andrew Wilson – 100, 200 breast
Women’s Team
- Haley Anderson – 10K
- Phoebe Bacon – 200 back
- Erika Brown – 100 free
- Claire Curzan – 100 fly
- Catie DeLoof – 4×100 free
- Kate Douglass – 200 IM
- Hali Flickinger – 400 IM, 200 fly
- Brooke Forde – 4×200 free
- Katie Grimes – 800 free
- Natalie Hinds – 4×100 free
- Torri Huske – 100 fly
- Lydia Jacoby – 100 breast
- Lilly King – 100, 200 breast
- Annie Lazor – 200 breast
- Katie Ledecky – 200, 400, 800, 1500 free
- Paige Madden – 400, 4×200 free
- Simone Manuel – 50 free
- Katie McLaughlin – 4×200 free
- Allison Schmitt – 200, 4×100 free
- Bella Sims – 4×200 free
- Regan Smith – 100 back, 200 fly
- Olivia Smoliga – 4×100 free
- Erica Sullivan – 1500 free
- Ashley Twichell – 10K
- Alex Walsh – 200 IM
- Abbey Weitzeil – 50, 100 free
- Emma Weyant – 400 IM
- Rhyan White – 100, 200 back
USA Swimming Coaching Staff:
- Dave Durden (head men’s coach)
- Greg Meehan (head women’s coach)
- Peter Andrew
- Jack Bauerle
- Bob Bowman
- Todd DeSorbo
- Catherine Kase
- Ray Looze
- Teri McKeever
- Anthony Nesty
- Gregg Troy
Why wasn’t Katie Ledecky a team captain ?