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U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials
Swimming opens U.S. Olympic Trials this weekend
06.24.2016 | Men's Swimming and Diving, Women's Swimming and Diving
Eight-day competition begins June 26 in Omaha; finals air live each night on NBC.
AUSTIN, Texas - Current, former and future Longhorns head for Omaha, Nebraska over the next 10 days as they aim for spots on the U.S. Olympic Team at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials.
The event gets underway Sunday morning (June 26) at CenturyLink Center Omaha and continues until the final berths on the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team are awarded on Sunday, July 3. NBC will air live coverage of finals each night at 7 p.m. CT. Twenty-six men and 26 women will earn places on the 2016 U.S. Olympic Swimming Team.
Texas has placed at least one man on every U.S. Olympic swimming team since Eddie Reese took over the Longhorns men's program in 1978. The Texas women have had at least one current, former or future Longhorn on every U.S. Olympic women's swimming team since 1976.
Complete U.S. Olympic Trials schedule (10 a.m. CT prelims/6:45 p.m. CT finals
U.S. Olympic Trials competition format
Preliminary, semifinal and final rounds are contested in each event aside from the 400 freestyle, 400 individual medley, women's 800 freestyle and men's 1500m freestyle, where only preliminary and finals rounds are contested.
The top-16 swimmers from the preliminary rounds advance to semifinals (when applicable) from which the top-eight finishers advance to finals. In events contested without semifinals, the top-eight finishers from the preliminary round advance to finals later that night.
Each event except for the 100 and 200 freestyle events calls for the top-two finishers per gender to earn spots on the U.S. Olympic Team. The top-four finishers in the 100 and 200 freestyle automatically earn berths on the Olympic team, though under team selection procedures, the fifth- and sixth-place finishers in those events effectively earn berths on the team, as well.
Longhorns in Omaha
The Texas men will send 25 members of the 2016 NCAA champion squad to Omaha, and five former Longhorn men also are set for Trials. Texas women's head coach Carol Capitani will take 14 members of her 2016 Big 12 champion team to Omaha. Three former Longhorn women and three future Longhorns are set for Omaha, as well.
Versatile All-America rising senior Madisyn Cox holds top-10 national seeds in the 200 IM (5th) and the 400 IM (10th) plus top-20 national seeds in the 200 breaststroke and 200 freestyle.
Former Longhorn Laura Sogar, the 2015 U.S. national champion in the 200 breaststroke, is seeded second in the same event in Omaha and 10th in the 100 breaststroke (1:07.41). Texas-Ex Karlee Bispo joins Cox as a high seed in the 200 IM at No. 12.
All-America rising senior Tasija Karosas holds No. 16 national seeds in the 100 and 200 backstroke events. Incoming freshman Claire Adams of Indianapolis is seeded fourth in the 100 backstroke and seventh in the 200 backstroke. Her soon-to-be classmate Kaitlin Harty, the younger sister of Texas men's swimmer Ryan Harty, holds the 10th seed in the 200 backstroke and the No. 17 seed in the 100 backstroke.
All-American Jack Conger takes top-10 seeds in the 200 butterfly (2nd), 100 butterfly (3rd), 100 backstroke (6th) and 200 freestyle (8th) to his second appearance at the U.S. Olympic Trials.
All-American Clark Smith holds the No. 5 seed in the 400 and 1500 freestyle events, while six-time NCAA champion Will Licon owns the No. 5 seed in the 200 IM and the No. 6 seed in the 200 breaststroke
All-America freshman Townley Haas boasts the No. 6 seed in the 400 freestyle and the No. 7 seed in the 200 freestyle. Former Longhorn Michael McBroom is seeded third in the 1500 freestyle and fourth in the 400 freestyle while former Longhorn Jimmy Feigen is seeded 10th in the 100 freestyle and 12th in the 50 freestyle.
Former Longhorn Austin Surhoff is seeded seventh in the 200 IM.
Current Longhorns (from men's 2015-16 roster)
Jared Butler – 400 IM, 200 IM
Jack Conger – 200 free, 100 back, 200 fly, 100 free, 200 back, 100 fly, 50 free
P.J. Dunne – 50 free, 100 free, 200 free, 400 free
Matt Ellis – 100 free, 100 fly
Will Glass – 200 fly, 100 back, 100 fly, 200 back
Aaron Gustafson – 100 back, 100 fly
Townley Haas – 200 free, 400 free, 100 free
Ryan Harty – 100 back, 200 back, 200 IM, 400 IM
Hayden Henry – 200 breast,
Max Holter – 200 fly, 100 fly
Tate Jackson – 50 free, 100 free
Ian LeMaistre – 100 back, 200 back
Sam Lewis – 200 free, 1500 free, 400 free
Will Licon – 200 breast, 200 IM, 100 breast
John Martens – 400 IM, 200 fly, 200 IM, 100 fly
Casey Melzer – 200 breast
John Murray – 50 free, 100 free
Jeff Newkirk – 400 free, 200 free
Jeremy Nichols – 50 free
Brett Ringgold – 50 free, 100 free
Jonathan Roberts – 200 free, 400 free, 200 back
John Shebat – 200 IM, 50 free, 100 back, 100 fly, 100 back
Clark Smith – 200 free, 400 free, 1500 free
Austin Temple – 100 breast
Mason Tenney – 200 IM
Former Longhorn men at Trials
Jimmy Feigen – 50 free, 100 free
Michael Klueh – 200 free, 200 fly, 400 free,
Michael McBroom – 200 free, 400 free, 1500 free
Austin Surhoff – 200 free, 200 IM
Clay Youngquist – 100 free, 200 free
Current Longhorns (from women's 2015-16 roster)
Olivia Anderson – 100 breast, 200 breast
Rebecca Baxley – 100 back, 200 back
Quinn Carrozza – 200 free, 400 free, 200 back
Madisyn Cox – 200 free, 200 IM, 200 breast, 400 IM
Maggie D'Innocenzo – 400 IM
Anelise Diener – 50 free
Brooke Hansen – 100 free
Tasija Karosas – 100 back, 200 back, 200 free
Bethany Leap – 200 breast
Nora McCullagh – 400 IM, 200 free, 200 IM, 50 free
Rebecca Millard – 50 free, 100 free
Remedy Rule – 100 fly, 100 back, 200 fly, 200 back
Mimi Schneider – 100 fly, 100 free, 50 free
Jordan Surhoff – 100 breast
Former Longhorn women
Karlee Bispo – 200 free, 200 IM, 100 free
Kaitlin Pawlowicz – 400 free, 200 fly, 800 free, 400 free
Laura Sogar – 100 breast, 200 breast
Future Longhorn women
Claire Adams – 100 back, 100 fly, 100 free, 200 back
Lauren Case – 400 free, 200 fly, 200 free, 100 fly
Kaitlin Harty – 100 back, 200 back
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