2025- 2026 Gulf Swimming Select Team Selection Procedures

 

To be selected to the Gulf Swimming Select Team, athletes must meet the General Criteria and Selection Criteria.

 

General Criteria:

  • All athletes must be registered active Gulf Swimming members at the time of the qualifying swim and at the time of the respective Gulf Select Team events.
  • Eligible athletes must be high school seniors or younger at the start of the 2025-2026 school year.
  • Only LCM times will be used.
  • Results from September 1, 2024- August 31, 2025 are eligible. Results must be loaded into USA Swimming’s SWIMS database by September 1, 2025 to be eligible.
  • All swimmers named to the Gulf Swimming Select Team must have a minimum Futures LCM time for the selected event(s).

 

Selection Criteria- Pool:   

For the 2025-2026 Gulf Swimming Select Team, athletes with either a 2025 LCM Summer Junior National Qualifying time or the top 3 athletes (minimum 2025 Futures cut) in the following LCM events will qualify for the team:

  • Freestyle- 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1500
  • Backstroke- 100, 200
  • Breaststroke- 100, 200
  • Butterfly- 100, 200
  • IM- 200, 400

 

Selection Criteria- Open Water:  

  • Top 3 male and female Gulf Swimming finishers at USA Swimming’s 2025 7.5K Junior Nationals
  • Top 3 male and female Gulf Swimming finishers at USA Swimming’s 2025 5K Junior Nationals

 

The Gulf Swimming Select Team will have a camp in the Fall, a camp in the Spring, a zoom education session with a nationally prominent sports nutritionist, a zoom education session with a nationally prominent sports psychologist, and zoom education sessions with National Team/ National Jr Team coaches or athletes. Home coaches of Select Team members are encouraged to work with Gulf Swimming’s Director of Performance for long term planning for each athlete.

 

* Gulf Swimming reserves the right to revoke an athlete’s position on the Gulf Swimming Select Team if the athlete is no longer a member in good standing.

**As Gulf Swimming evolves, so will the selection procedure for the Gulf Swimming Select Team.