As we head into the new year, it’s time for an update on where the total count lies for US Olympic Trials qualifiers.
In mid-August, after all of the major international competitions had wrapped up (other than World Juniors), the qualifier count was at 1,115. As of January 7, 2020, that number has only increased by 16, up to 1,131. USA Swimming’s stated goal is to have between 1,200 and 1,400 qualifiers.
Those 1,131 swimmers have amassed 2,358 qualifying cuts in total, up from the 2,299 last summer.
The 2020 US Olympic Swimming Trials will be held from June 21st-28th, 2020 at the CHI Health Center in Omaha, Nebraska. Swimmers will be able to compete in any events where they’ve hit the Olympic Trials standard (link below) with no ‘bonus events’ allowed.
By Event:
The 50 freestyles continue to see a high volume of qualifiers, with the distance events bringing in the lowest numbers.
| Event | Female Qualifiers | Male Qualifiers |
| 50 FR | 97 | 122 |
| 100 FR | 87 | 102 |
| 200 FR | 84 | 74 |
| 400 FR | 78 | 84 |
| 800 FR | 51 | 63 |
| 1500 FR | 44 | 55 |
| 100 BK | 108 | 107 |
| 200 BK | 76 | 77 |
| 100 BR | 104 | 106 |
| 200 BR | 78 | 89 |
| 100 FL | 97 | 100 |
| 200 FL | 85 | 72 |
| 200 IM | 100 | 78 |
| 400 IM | 81 | 59 |
An updated list as of 1/72021 would be nice 😊💪🏊🏼♂️🏊🏽♀️
Ok so I’m not the swimmer of the family but my son just got a Olympic Trial Cut time. Now what? How do I get him so he is able to go to the trials for 2020 in Omaha, NE? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks so much.
How do warm ups for prelims work in this kind of meet?
Check out the meet book. Page 14 is warm-up schedule. https://www.usaswimming.org/docs/default-source/eventsdocuments/guides/2020-olympic-trials/olympic-trials-meet-information-book-12-27-19.pdf?sfvrsn=b10a2432_2
What is the LSC collum?
15 QT’s under 49sec in 100 free!
I’m looking forward to seeing what Gunnar Bentz can do this summer. He’s definitely flying under the radar after two low key summers.
A bunch of d3 names and it’s only January! Jesse Novak -Rowan (50fr, 100FR), Sam Ubellacker – MIT (50FR), Wyatt Ubellacker -MIT (50FR), Colin MIiller -UWSP (50FR, 100BR), Roger Gu – Tufts (50FR), Andrew Wilson – Emory (100BR, 200BR), Brandon Stride – JHU (200BR), James Richardson – MIT (1fly), Andrew Karpenko – Swarthmore (1BR), KT Kustritz – Denison (1BR)
Collin Miller is decidely NOT UWSP – he’s a true blue-and- gold Blugold from UW-Eau Claire. Oh hell yes!
Thank you! I get the Wisconsin programs confused in my head sometimes
In another stat, 198,869 members of USA swimming have not qualified for the trials
Is the USA Swimming the national swim organization with the most members?? That seems like a lotta people
USAS claims 347,000 members are swimmers in year round clubs.
That number sees a bit low. Aren’t there >300k USAS swimmers?
Probably, but the figure you’re thinking of probably include Summer League and High School only non year round swimmers
Summer League swimmers and high school swimmers do not need to be members of USA Swimming. I would guess that most are not members
unless they are already USAS members before their summer campaigns begin, that is, yes?
Guessing he wasn’t trying to be exact but rather make the point that despite “so many” qualifying for trials they still represent a tiny number (well under 1%) of all current registered swimmers