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 Pan Pacific Championships roster consists of 60 swimmers (30 men & 30 females) that will represent the United States at the 2010 Pan Pacs

2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships

The eleventh edition of the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, also known as the 2010 Mutual of Omaha Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, a long course event, was held in Irvine, California, United States, from August 18–22....

. The American team is as follows:

Men

Aaron Peirsol

Aaron Peirsol

Aaron Wells Peirsol is a former American swimmer who specialized in the backstroke. He is a three-time Olympian and seven-time Olympic medalist . As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×100-meter medley relay...

, Alex Meyer

Alex Meyer

Alexander Meyer is an American open water swimmer.-Swimming career:At the 2009 World Aquatics Championships, Meyer was disqualified in the 25 km....

, Andrew Gemmell

Andrew Gemmell

Andrew Douglas Gemmell is an American long-distance swimmer. Gemmell currently swims for the University of Georgia.-Career:...

, Arthur Frayler, Chad La Tourette, Charlie Houchin

Charlie Houchin

Charlie Houchin is an American swimmer.-Swimming career:At the 2010 FINA Short Course World Championships, Houchin won a silver medal in the 4×200 m freestyle relay for his contributions in the heats. At the 2011 World Aquatics Championships in Shanghai, Houchin competed in one event, the...

, Chip Peterson

Chip Peterson

Charles Bowne Peterson is an American swimmer who specializes is long-distance freestyle swimming, especially open water swimming, in which he is a world champion.-Career:...

, Cullen Jones

Cullen Jones

Cullen Jones is an American freestyle sprint swimmer and Olympic gold medalist.-Early life:Born in the Bronx borough of New York City, Jones moved to Irvington, New Jersey while in elementary school...

, David Plummer

David Plummer (swimmer)

David Plummer is an American backstroke swimmer.-Swimming career:At the 2010 FINA Short Course World Championships in Dubai, Plummer won a gold medal in the 4×100 m medley relay for his contributions in the heats...

, Elliott Keefer, Eric Shanteau

Eric Shanteau

Eric Lee Shanteau is an American Olympic swimmer. He lives and trains in Austin, Texas.-College:...

, Fran Crippen

Fran Crippen

Francis "Fran" Crippen was an American long-distance swimmer. After being a pool swimmer for most of his career, Crippen made the transition to open water swimming in 2006 where he had tremendous success. In international competitions, Crippen won seven medals, five of which were in the open...

, Garrett Weber-Gale

Garrett Weber-Gale

Garrett Weber-Gale is an American Olympic swimmer who won two gold medals in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.-Early life:Weber-Gale is Jewish, and was born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. He competed for the University of Texas from 2003–07...

, Jason Lezak

Jason Lezak

Jason Edward Lezak is an American Olympic swimmer, winner of 4 Olympic gold medals.He formerly swam for Irvine Novaquatics. He graduated from Irvine High School in 1994, and then from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1999. He is a member of the Rose Bowl Aquatics swim club...

, Mark Dylla, Mark Gangloff

Mark Gangloff

Mark Gangloff is an American swimmer who earned a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics by swimming in the 4x100m medley relay preliminaries. He came in fourth place for the 100m breaststroke...

, Michael Klueh

Michael Klueh

Michael Klueh is an American swimmer. He is a eight-time medalist at the World University Games. Klueh competed for the University of Texas from 2005-2009.-External links:**...

, Michael Phelps

Michael Phelps

Michael Fred Phelps is an American swimmer who has, overall, won 16 Olympic medals—six gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at Beijing in 2008, becoming the most successful athlete at both of these Olympic Games editions...

, Mike Alexandrov, Nathan Adrian

Nathan Adrian

Nathan Adrian is an American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist who currently holds the American record in the 50 and 100-yard freestyle ....

, Nick Thoman

Nick Thoman

Nicholas Thoman is an American backstroke swimmer. He currently holds the world record in the 100-meter backstroke ....

, Peter Vanderkaay

Peter Vanderkaay

Peter Vanderkaay is an American middle-distance freestyle swimmer. He is a three-time Olympic medalist.-Personal life:...

, Ricky Berens

Ricky Berens

Richard Berens is an American Olympic swimmer.-Career:At the 2007 Pan American Games, Berens won a gold medal in the 4x100 m medley, and silver medals in both the 4x100 m freestyle and 4x200 m freestyle relays.At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Berens won the gold medal in the men's 4x200 m freestyle...

, Robert Margalis

Robert Margalis

Robert Margalis is an American medley swimmer who won the gold medal in the men's 400m individual medley event at the 2003 Pan American Games. At the next edition, four years later in Rio de Janeiro, he captured three silver medals.-References:* *...

, Ryan Lochte

Ryan Lochte

Ryan Steven Lochte is an American swimmer and a six-time Olympic medalist . As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay...

, Scott Spann

Scott Spann

-Career:At the 2008 US Olympic trials, Spann won the 200m breaststroke in 2:09.97, earning a spot on the US Olympic Team roster. Spann also placed third in the 100m breaststroke at trials in 1:00.59....

, Sean Ryan

Sean Ryan (swimmer)

Sean Ryan is an is an American distance swimmer.-Personal:Ryan is a 2010 graduate of The McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tennessee and was the fastest American high school swimmer at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials as a fifteen year old. He swam with the Scenic City Aquatic Club, a USA Swimming...

, Timothy Phillips, Tyler Clary

Tyler Clary

Scott Clary is an American swimmer. Clary currently holds the American record in the 400-yard individual medley...

 and Tyler McGill

Tyler McGill

Tyler Tennant McGill is an American swimmer. McGill attends Auburn University and trains under head coach Brett Hawke.-Career:...

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Women

Allison Schmitt

Allison Schmitt

Allison Schmitt is an American swimmer who won a bronze medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.Schmitt has won a total of six medals in major international competition, three gold, two silver, and one bronze spanning the Olympics, the World, and the Pan Pacific Championships.-Personal...

, Amanda Beard

Amanda Beard

Amanda Ray Beard is an American swimmer and a seven-time Olympic medalist . She is a former world record holder in the 200-meter breaststroke ....

, Amanda Weir

Amanda Weir

Amanda Weir is an American swimmer.At the 2004 Summer Olympics, Weir swam the third leg in the US team for the Women's 4×100 m freestyle relay. Leading after her leg of the relay, the US team finished second to the Australians, setting an American Record with their finishing time...

, Annie Chandler, Ariana Kukors

Ariana Kukors

Ariana Kukors is an American swimmer. She currently holds the world record in the 200-meter individual medley ....

, Caitlin Leverenz

Caitlin Leverenz

Caitlin Leverenz is an American swimmer for the University of California Golden Bears and formerly of El Dorado Aquatics Club, located in Tucson, Arizona. She represented the U.S. in Brazil for World Youth Championships, and in the Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool...

, Chloe Sutton

Chloe Sutton

Chloe Sutton is an American swimmer who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics.Sutton has won a total of five medals in major international competition, three gold, one silver, and one bronze spanning the Open Water Championships, the Pan Pacific Championships, and the Pan American...

, Christine Jennings, Christine Magnuson

Christine Magnuson

Christine Marie Magnuson is an American swimmer and two-time Olympic medalist.She has won a total of five medals in major international competition, four silvers, and one bronze spanning the Olympics, the World Championships, and the Pan Pacific Championships.-Personal:Magnuson went to high school...

, Dana Vollmer

Dana Vollmer

Dana Vollmer is an American college and international swimmer and Olympic gold medalist. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece she won a gold medal in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay with Natalie Coughlin, Kaitlin Sandeno, and Carly Piper that set the world record in the event.She has won...

, Elizabeth Beisel

Elizabeth Beisel

Elizabeth Beisel is an American college and international swimmer who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Beisel has won a total of four medals in major international competition, three gold, and one bronze spanning the World and the Pan Pacific championships.- Personal background :Beisel was...

, Elizabeth Pelton

Elizabeth Pelton

Elizabeth Anne Pelton is an American swimmer.-2009:At the 2009 USA Nationals and World Championship Trials, Pelton placed second in the 100 m backstroke, 200 m backstroke, and 200 m individual medley, earning berths on the US roster for the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome...

, Emily Brunemann, Eva Fabian

Eva Fabian

Eva Fabian is an American open water swimmer.-Swimming career:At the 2009 World Aquatics Championships, Fabian placed 10th in the 25 km....

, Haley Anderson

Haley Anderson

-Personal:Anderson's older sister, Alyssa, is a swimmer at Arizona. Both sisters competed at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships.Anderson swims at USC.-Career:...

, Jessica Hardy

Jessica Hardy

Jessica Adele Hardy is an American swimmer who specializes in the breaststroke and freestyle stroke. She currently holds the world record in the 50 m breaststroke and the 100 m breaststroke ....

, Kara Lynn Joyce

Kara Lynn Joyce

Kara Lynn Joyce is an American swimmer and four-time Olympic silver medalist.-High school career:...

, Kate Ziegler

Kate Ziegler

Kate Marie Ziegler is an American long-distance swimmer. She currently holds the world record in the 1500-meter freestyle ....

, Kathleen Hersey

Kathleen Hersey

Kathleen Elizabeth Hersey is an Olympic-level swimmer from the United States.-2007-2008:Hersey competed in the 2007 Pan American Games, where she won gold medals in the 100 m butterfly, 200 m butterfly, 400 m individual medley, and 4x100 m medley relay...

, Katie Hoff

Katie Hoff

Kathryn "Katie" Elise Hoff is an American swimmer. Hoff is strongest in the 200 and 400 meter individual medley, though she is a very capable swimmer in many events, ranging from the four 200 meter events to the 800 meter freestyle...

, Katy Freeman, Madison Kennedy, Mary Mohler, Missy Franklin

Missy Franklin

Melissa "Missy" Jeanette Franklin is an American swimmer. She is a five-time medalist at the World Aquatics Championships and a two-time silver medalist at the World Short Course Championships...

, Micah Lawrence, Morgan Scroggy

Morgan Scroggy

-Career:At the 2010 US National Championships, the selection meet for both the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships and the 2011 World Aquatics Championships, Scroggy placed third in both the 200 m individual medley and 200 m backstroke, and fourth in the 200 m freestyle, earning a place on the...

, Natalie Coughlin

Natalie Coughlin

Natalie Anne Coughlin is an American swimmer and eleven-time Olympic medallist.At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Coughlin became the first American female athlete in modern Olympic history to win six medals in one Olympics and the first woman ever to win a 100 m backstroke gold in two consecutive...

, Rachel Bootsma

Rachel Bootsma

-Career:At the 2010 National Championships, the selection meet for both the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships and the 2011 World Aquatics Championships, Bootsma placed third in the 100 m backstroke...

, Rebecca Soni

Rebecca Soni

Rebecca Soni is an American breaststroke swimmer and three-time Olympic medalist. She currently holds the world record in the 100 and 200 m breaststroke and is a former world-record holder in the 100 and 200 m breaststroke .Soni has won a total of nineteen medals in major...

 and Teresa Crippen

Teresa Crippen

Teresa Crippen is an American college and international swimmer.At the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Crippen won the gold medal in the 200 m backstroke and the silver in the 400 m individual medley...

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Coaches

Bill Rose (open water head coach), Gregg Troy

Gregg Troy

Gregg Troy is an American college and Olympic swimming coach. He is the current head coach of the Florida Gators swimming and diving teams of the University of Florida; the Florida Gators compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Southeastern Conference . ...

 (men's head coach), Bob Bowman

Bob Bowman (coach)

Bob Bowman is an American swimming coach, who is the coach of Michael Phelps. From 2005-2008, he was the head coach for the University of Michigan men's swimming & diving team, replacing Jon Urbanchek; as well as the head coach for the club team based at the school: Club Wolverine. He was the...

 (men's assistant coach), Dave Durden (men's assistant coach), Dave Marsh (men's assistant coach), Teri McKeever (women's head coach), Todd Schmitz (women's assistant coach), Chuck Batchelor (women's assistant coach) and Sean Hutchison (women's assistant coach).