By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
2025 U.S. OPEN
December 3-6, 2025 Austin, Texas Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center LCM (50 meters) Meet Central Psych Sheets ResultsUSA Swimming has released the pre-scratch psych sheets for next week’s U.S. Open, and there’s an absolutely stacked group of swimmers set to compete at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center in Austin.
The group includes eight individual 2025 world champions, highlighted by the sport’s two biggest names, Leon Marchand and Summer McIntosh, plus the competition return of superstar Caeleb Dressel, who hasn’t raced since early August.
It feels as though the majority of top American pros will be in attendance, led by the star-studded Texas pro group and the University of Virginia post-grads, and we’ll also see a strong group of NCAA swimmers and a sprinkling of international talent in the mix.
The most glaring swimmer missing from the field is Katie Ledecky, who has historically been a dominant force in recent U.S. Open meets, outside of last year’s edition, which was sparsely attended and raced in short course yards.
KEY WOMEN’S ENTRIES
The women’s field is highlighted by McIntosh, who has not raced since the 2025 World Championships after withdrawing from the World Cup series in October due to illness.
McIntosh, who will, interestingly enough, race the exact same five races as Marchand, will contest two events in which she’s the reigning world champion, the 400 free and 200 fly, and she’ll also swim the 100 fly, 100 back and 100 breast.
The other individual world champions from Singapore competing on the women’s side will be Gretchen Walsh, Kate Douglass and Katharine Berkoff.
Walsh, who, while battling illness, swept the women’s 50 and 100 fly at the 2025 Worlds, has entered the 50 free, 100 free, 50 fly and 100 fly at the meet, and she’ll go head-to-head with Douglass in both sprint free races.
Douglass, the 2025 world champion in the 200 breast, will race that event in addition to the 50 and 100 free, and she’ll also return to the 200 IM after opting not to race it in the summer of 2025, and her fifth race will be the 100 breast.
The reigning world champion in the 50 back, Berkoff will go head-to-head with Regan Smith in the women’s backstroke events in Austin, with Smith coming off winning silver in all three distances (and the 200 fly) in Singapore. Berkoff will race the 50 and 100 free along with the 50 and 100 back, while Smith will race all of her best events: 50 back, 100 back, 200 back, 100 fly and 200 fly.
Other key pro names in the field include Alex Walsh, Simone Manuel, Phoebe Bacon, Anna Peplowski, Emma Weyant, Rhyan White, Mona McSharry, Marie Wattel, Ingrid Wilm and Mary-Sophie Harvey, while some notable college swimmers racing include Jillian Cox, Leah Shackley, Erika Pelaez, Kennedy Noble, Erin Gemmell, Liberty Clark and soon-to-be NCAA swimmer Alex Shackell.
KEY MEN’S ENTRIES
The men’s field will feature four reigning world champions, with Texas training partners Marchand and Hubert Kos joined by Tunisian Ahmed Jaouadi, currently at the University of Florida, and South African Pieter Coetze.
As mentioned previously, Marchand, who swept the medley events at the 2025 Worlds, will race the 400 free, 100 back, 100 breast, 100 fly and 200 fly, which, for the most part, are relatively ‘off’ events for the Frenchman, outside of the 200 fly. However, despite the fact that Marchand is the reigning Olympic champion in the event, he has not raced it in long course since winning gold in Paris.
Kos, who is coming off setting a pair of SCM backstroke world records at the World Cup, has entered six events in Austin, with all three backstrokes, the 200 IM, and the 100 and 200 fly in his lineup.
He’ll go head-to-head with Coetze in all three backstroke events, which should be exciting given Kos edged out Coetze for gold in the 200 back at the 2025 World Championships, and Coetze won gold with one of the fastest times ever in the 100 back (with Kos 4th).
Also featuring in the 50 back, 100 back and 200 IM alongside Kos (and Coetze in the backstrokes) will be Shaine Casas, who trains with Marchand and Kos at Texas and won silver between the two in the famous Texas sweep of the 200 IM podium at Worlds.
Jaouadi, who rolled to world titles in the 800 and 1500 free this past summer, is slated to go to battle with Olympic champion Bobby Finke in the men’s distance events in Austin.
Jaouadi is the top seed in the 800 and 1500 free and is also slated to swim the 200 and 400 free, while Finke will race the 400, 800 and 1500 free, plus the 400 IM.
The men’s distance events will also feature NCAA champion and American Record holder in the 500 free, Rex Maurer, and NAG record-breaking machine and recent Texas commit, Luka Mijatovic. Maurer and Mijatovic were also the two U.S. representatives in the 400 free last summer at the World Championships.
Also scheduled to race is nine-time Olympic gold medalist Caeleb Dressel, who recently made a training base change, which he recently went in-depth on on an episode of the SwimSwam Podcast.
The 29-year-old, who has not raced since the 2025 U.S. Summer Championships in early August, will contest the men’s 50 free, 50 fly and 100 fly.
The men’s 50 free is led by Olympic and World Championship gold medalist Jack Alexy, and the other man who represented the U.S. in the 50 free at Worlds this summer, Santo Condorelli, will also be racing. Serbian Andrej Barna, who was 6th in the 2025 World Championship final of the 50 free (where Alexy was 3rd and Condorelli was 8th), will also be a factor.
In the 50 and 100 fly, Ilya Kharun might be the man to beat, as the ASU junior is coming off some electric performances at the CSCAA Dual Meet Challenge last weekend. Kharun will race all three fly races, including going head-to-head with former Sun Devil teammate Marchand in the 200 fly, and he’ll also be in the 50 free.
Looking at the 100 and 200 free, the majority of the ‘A’ final from the 2025 U.S. National Championships will be in the field.
The top six in the 100 free, all of whom qualified for Worlds, will be racing with Alexy, Patrick Sammon, Chris Guiliano, Destin Lasco, Jonny Kulow and Casas. In the 200 free, seven of the eight ‘A’ finalists are scheduled to compete with Luke Hobson, Gabriel Jett, Maurer, Carson Foster, Kieran Smith, Guiliano and Mijatovic in the lineup.
Other notable pros swimming include Hunter Armstrong, Matt King, Dare Rose, Finlay Knox and Yuri Kisil, while the current crop of NCAA swimmers includes Campbell McKean, Adam Chaney, Baylor Nelson, Luke Whitlock, Jonny Marshall, Owen McDonald, Maximus Williamson and Aaron Shackell.
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