A Special Thanks to Deep Blue Media for providing the images from this meet USA Swimming has updated its roster for the 2022 World Short Course Championships. Backstroker Rhyan White was not able to make the trip to Melbourne because of an illness, according to USA Swimming. White was slated to swim the three backstroke events. Current members of the roster will take over those three U.S. backstroke spots with Erika Brown (50 BK), Isabelle Stadden (100 BK) and Claire Curzan (200 BK) added to each of those events. Meanwhile, USA Swimming also named team captains for the meet: Nic Fink and Ryan Murphy are men’s team captains; Natalie Hinds and Leah Smith are women’s team captains. The roster features 16 Olympians , including Ryan Murphy (Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida/California Aquatics), Torri Huske (Arlington, Virginia/Stanford University), Andrew (Encinitas, California/MA Swim Academy) , Hali Flickinger (York, Pennsylvania/Sun Devil Swimming), Nic Fink (Morristown, New Jersey/Metro Atlantic Aquatic Club) and Kate Douglass and Smith, among others. Multiple reigning short course world champions will be representing the U.S. again, including Fink, White and Casas (McAllen, Texas/Longhorn Aquatics). Last year’s U.S. roster led the medal table with nine gold, nine silver and 12 bronze for 30 total medals. Making th eir senior – level debuts in a FINA international competition will be David Curtiss (Yardley, Pennsylvania/NC State University), David Johnston (Dallas, Texas/University of Texas), Jake Foster (Cincinnati, Ohio/University of Texas/Mason Manta Rays), Erin Gemmell (Potomac, Maryland/Nation’s Capital Swim Club) and Jillian Cox (Cedar Park, Texas/University of Texas). This year’s team will be led by head coach Braden Holloway (NC State) and assist ant coaches Bruce Gemmell (Nation’s Capital Swim Club), Whitney Hite ( University of Florida ), Ashley Jahn ( University of Tennessee ) and Eddie Reese (Longhorn Aquatics). For more on the 2022 FINA World Championships (25m), visit https://www.fina.org/
