The 2025 USA Swimming Open Water National and Junior National Championships are held at the Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Florida this weekend under the direction of Macie McNichols.
The 5 km and 10 km races are the qualifying events for the 5 km and 10 km individual events at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore held in July. In addition, all the qualifying swimmers can be selected to the USA Team Relay and 3 km Knockout Sprints at the World Championships.
April 4th is the men’s and women’s 10 km national race. April 5th is the men’s and women’s 5 km Junior 5 km race. April 6th is the men’s and women’s national 5 km race and the 7.5 km Junior National race.
On the women’s side, 2024 Olympians Mariah Denigan (MSF bio here), Katie Grimes (MSF bio here), Claire Weinstein, and Emma Finlin of Canada, World Championship swimmer Abby Dunford of Canada, and fast contingents from Australia, Japan, and Canada will be in the mix with the top American open water swimmers.
But there is one swimmer – the oldest in the field – who presents a wild card with her decade plus of national-level and international experience: 27-year-old Becca Mann (MSF bio here, @becca__mann). She is expected to be in the mix and certainly part of the lead pack, having competed in her first open water swimming national championship at the age of 13 in 2011 (also held in Florida). The USC graduate has competed in the 400m individual medley, 800m freestyle, 5 km, 10 km, and 25 km events at three previous World Championships (in Barcelona, Spain, Kazan, Russia, and Budapest, Hungary).
She recently released her second book, Outside the Lanes, A Pro Swimmer’s Story of Resilience, Reinvention, and Redefining Success, available on April 8th.
10 km Women’s Psyche Sheet
- Grace Alegi, 16 Sarasota Sharks
- Justice Beard, 19 Swimchester Sailfish
- Riley Christensen, 17 Sandpipers Of Nevada
- Daisy Collins, 17 North Carolina Aquatic Club
- Jaqueline Davison-McGovern, 21 Australia
- Mariah Denigan, 21 Indiana University
- Abby Dunford, 19 Canada
- Emma Finlin, 19 Edmonton Keyano Swim Club
- Maya Geringer, 23 California Aquatics
- Madeleine Gough, 25 Australia
- Libby Grether, 20 Kentucky Aquatics
- Katie Grimes, 19 Cavalier Aquatics/Piedmont Family YMCA
- Brinkleight Hansen, 16 Saint Petersburg Aquatics
- Camille Henveaux, 19 California Aquatics
- Paige Housman, 20 Kentucky Aquatics
- Ichika Kajimoto, 21 Japan
- Sophia Karras, 21 Long Island Aquatic Club
- Becca Mann, 27 TAC Titans
- Lolly Milbaum, 18 Sarasota Sharks
- Misa Okuzono, 19 Japan
- Laila Oravsky, 18 Barrie Trojan Swim Club
- Delphine Piatera-Mercier, 16 Club de Natation de Sherbrooke
- Alexandra Siegel, 15 Long Island Aquatic Club
- Claire Stuhlmacher, 19 Indiana University
- Bella Tramontana, 19 Sandpipers Of Nevada
- Brooke Travis, 24 TAC Titans
- Taira Vroom, 18 Barrie Trojan Swim Club
- Lexie Ward, 18 Carmel Swim Club
- Nora Weber, 18 Germantown Academy Aquatic Club
- Claire Weinstein, 18 Sandpipers Of Nevada
- Izzy Wilson, 19 South Florida Aquatic Club
On the men’s side, 2024 Olympians Kyle Lee of Australia (13th in Paris, MSF bio here), Taishin Minamide of Japan (15th in Paris, MSF bio here), and American Ivan Puskovitch (19th in Paris, MSF bio here) headline the field.
10 km Men’s Psyche Sheet
- Darwin Anderson, 23 Cougar Aquatics
- Luke Brennan, 19 University of Minnesota
- Eric Brown, 22 Pointe-Claire Swim Club
- Joshua Brown, 22 Sandpipers Of Nevada
- Matt Cinque, 19 North Carolina Aquatic Club
- Charles Clark, 22 Ohio State University
- Trey Dickey, 22 Texas A & M University
- Edoard Duffy, 19 Club Aquatique de Montreal
- Connor Fry, 19 South Texas Aquatics
- Kaiki Furuhata, 25 Japan
- Deacon Gutshall, 19 Tsunami Swim Team of K.C.
- Koichiro Iwazumi, 20 Japan
- Hugo Janvier, 23 Pointe-Claire Swim Club
- Thomas Langlois, 21
- Kyle Lee, Swimming Australia
- Alexander Lyubavskiy, Longhorn Aquatics
- Taishin Minamide, 29 Japan
- William Mullen, 23 West Virginia University
- Chris Nagy, 22 Kentucky Aquatics
- Sebastian Paulins, 26 Côte Saint-Luc
- Ivan Puskovitch, 24 TSM Aquatics
- Thomas Raymond, 22 Australia
- Levi Sandidge, 20 Kentucky Aquatics
- Charles Schreiner, 19 Egg Harbor Twp Seahawks
- Henry Shoemaker, Sarasota Tsunami Swim Team
- Chip Wheelie Shoyat, 21 Northern Kentucky Clippers Swimming
- Riku Takaki, 20 Japan
- Joey Tepper, 22 University of Minnesota
- Max Vega Cuevas, 21 Texas A & M University
- Ben Wainman, 21 Unattached
- Luke Whitlock, 19 Fishers Area Swimming Tigers
- Dylan Gravely, 22 Sun Devil Swimming
- Luke Ellis, 19 Sandpipers Of Nevada
- Sam Hennenfent, 18 Tsunami Swim Team of K.C.
- Finn Holdredge, 19 Unattached
- Colin Jacobs, 17 Unattached
- Gabriel Manteufel, 18 Sandpipers Of Nevada
- Max Marcus, 18 Princeton University Swim Team
- Tristan McCain, 18 Longhorn Aquatics
- Will Mulgrew, 18 Shawmut Aquatic Club
- Paul Mullen, 18 Nation’s Capital Swim Club
- Hunter Payne, 18 University of Calgary
- Ian Platts-Mills, 18 North Carolina Aquatic Club
- Benjamin Robins, 18 Badger Swim Club
- Eli Rolfsen, 18 Greater Kalamazoo Crocs
- Julien Rousseau, 18 Pacific Swim
- Oliver Shao, 18 Badger Swim Club
- Holden Short, 18 Bend Swim Club
- William Siegel, 18 Long Island Aquatic Club
- Harrison Smith, 19 TSM Aquatics
- Marshall Smith, 17 TSM Aquatics
- Max Spory, 18 American Energy Swim Club
- Whitaker Steward, 18 Tsunami Swim Team of K.C.
- Zach Tower, 18 TSM Aquatics
- Cooper Zakorchemny, 18 Rockville Montgomery Swim Club
For more information on the Championships, visit here.
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