The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Swimming set for 2017 USA Swimming Phillips 66 National Championships
06.26.2017 | Men's Swimming and Diving
Current, former and future Longhorns head to Indianapolis to compete for berths on the World Championship team.
AUSTIN, Texas – Olympic gold medalists Townley Haas, Jack Conger and Clark Smith are among the Longhorns contingent competing at this week's USA Swimming Phillips 66 National Championships in Indianapolis.
The meet opens Tuesday, June 27 and runs through Saturday, July 1. Preliminary rounds get underway at 9 a.m. local time (8 a.m. CT) each day with finals set for 6 p.m. Eastern (5 p.m. CT). Winners of each of the Olympic events, plus the top-four finishers in the 100m and 200m freestyle events, are guaranteed places on the U.S. roster at next month's FINA World Championships in Budapest, Hungary (July 23-30).
The second-place finishers in each Olympic event, in addition to the fifth- and sixth-place finishers in the 100m and 200m freestyle events, likely will earn spots on the U.S. roster, as well. However, those berths will not be made official until USA Swimming's team selection procedures have been applied upon the meet's conclusion (complete selection procedures here.)
Former Longhorn Madisyn Cox brings three top-seven seeds to Indianapolis as she attempts to qualify for her first senior-level U.S. team in the long-course (50m pool) format. The Lubbock native represented the U.S. at the 2014 and 2016 FINA Short Course World Championships in addition to the 2015 World University Games. She won silver in the 4x200m freestyle relay and bronze in the 200 and 400 individual medleys at the 2016 FINA Short Course World Championships last December.
Cox is seeded second in the 200 IM (2:11.14), third in the 400 IM (4:38.85) and seventh in the 200 breaststroke (2:25.62). Rising sophomore Lauren Case holds the sixth seed in the 200 butterfly (2:10.36) and the 11th seed in the 100 butterfly (59.40). Her classmate Remedy Rule holds the 14th seed in the 200 butterfly (2:11.41). Rising junior Olivia Anderson holds the 11th seed in the 100 breaststroke (1:08.00) and the 13th seed in the 200 breaststroke (2:28.55).
Rising senior Rebecca Millard is seeded 16th in the 100 freestyle (55.51) and 17th in the 50 freestyle (25.39), and rising sophomore and Indianapolis-area native Claire Adams is seeded 18th in the 50 backstroke and 20th in the 100 backstroke.
Haas heads to Indianapolis as the top seed in the 400 freestyle (3:45.04) and the No. 2 seed in the 200 freestyle (1:45.58). Haas helped Team USA to gold in the 4x200m freestyle relay and placed fifth in the 200 freestyle at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Conger and Smith join Haas as Olympic gold medalists with top-four seeds week. Conger is seeded third in the 100 butterfly (51.26) and 200 freestyle (1:45.77) and fourth in the 200 butterfly (1:56.45). Smith is seeded third in the 400 freestyle (3:45.74) and holds the fourth seeds in the 200 freestyle (1:47.20) and the 800 freestyle (7:57.91). Conger and Smith won Olympic gold last summer after competing in the preliminary rounds of the 4x200m freestyle relay in Rio de Janeiro.
Former Longhorn Will Licon, the three-time defending NCAA champion in the 200 breaststroke, is seeded third in the same event this week at 2:08.14. He holds the No. 7 seeds in the 200 IM (2:00.41) and the 100 breaststroke (1:00.30), as well. Rising junior John Shebat, the newly-minted school record holder in the 100 and 200 backstroke events, is seeded sixth in the 100 backstroke (54.20) and ninth in the 200 IM (2:00.86).
Rising senior Jonathan Roberts, a finalist in the 200 freestyle at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials, is seeded eighth in that event at 1:47.84.
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