By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
USA Swimming National Team member Andrew Seliskar is the 5th and final new appointee to the USA Swimming Board of Directors. He was appointed after a tie in the initial round of voting led to the voting deadline being extended, allowing those who didn’t vote before the deadline more time to submit. He eventually beat out fellow Olympian Andrew Gemmell for the spot.
A USA Swimming spokesperson said that about 10% of the approximately 300 eligible 10-year athletes voted. 10-year athletes are those who have represented the U.S. in a major international event in the last decade voted.
Seliskar, 28, was a National Age Group Record holder and the 2013 World Junior Champion in the 200 fly. He swam for four years at Cal and was named the 2019 Swammy Award winner for NCAA Male Swimmer of the Year. He was a three-time NCAA Champion and a member of the U.S. team at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, where he swam a leg of the 4th-place 800 free relay.
A Cal graduate, he now works as an associate for global consulting behemoth McKinsey & Company.
“We are thrilled to welcome Andrew to the USA Swimming Board of Directors,” said Natalie Coughlin, USA Swimming Board Chair. “His unique blend of Olympic experience and professional expertise will be invaluable in shaping the future of our sport and ensuring athletes remain at the center of our strategy.”
According to the USA Swimming election guide, the Board of Directors was seeking the following experience and background for the available 10-year athlete seats:
Experience/interest in college swimming and the changing NCAA environment Existing governance experience to understand the complexity and some of the stakeholders Post-swimming job experience (or “while-swimming” job experience) Time & commitment to the sport and to this volunteer Board positionSeliskar will now serve a four year term on the BOD alongside fellow 10-year athletes Natalie Coughlin, Nic Fink, Caitlin Leverenz Smith, and Katie Meili to fulfill the requirement of five 10-year athletes on the Board. Seliskar replaces outgoing Maya DiRado Andrews, who did not seek reelection.
Seliskar will join four other new non-athlete board members in serving from 2026 through 2030. Those elections were completed in voting by the USA Swimming House of Delegates:
Jack Bauerle – Head coach at the University of Georgia for 43 years, winning seven NCAA team titles. Billy Doughty – The CEO/head swim coach of DART Swimming in California and childhood coach of the United States’ lone 2025 men’s World Champion Luca Urlando Brent Lang – A former swimmer at the University of Michigan and 1988 Olympian, Lang spent nine years as the CEO of publicly traded Vocera Communications, which was sold to Stryker in 2022. Until December 2024, he was a BOD member and treasurer for USA Gymnastics, where he was recruited following the organization’s sexual abuse scandal. Kate Lundsten – Head Coach of the Aquajets Swim Team in Minnesota since 2004. She has served on several international staffs, including 2017 World Juniors, 2018 Junior Pan Pacs, and 2019 Pan Am Games.The board will now meet to elect its new officers, though Coughlin was previously elected to take over as chair.
2026 USA Swimming Board of Directors
Natalie Coughlin, Board Chair (10-year athlete representative) 2022-2026 Kenneth Chung (At-Large) 2022-2026 Katy Arris-Wilson (At-Large) 2022-2026 Kathleen Fish (At-Large) 2024-2028 Nic Fink (10-year athlete representative) 2024-2028 Caitlin Leverenz Smith (10-year athlete representative) 2025-2028 Katie Meili (10-year athlete representative) 2025-2028 Sabir Muhammad (At-Large, 10-year+ athlete) 2023-2027 Kathleen Prindle (At-Large) 2023-2027 Billy Doughty (Coach) 2026-2030 Brent Lang (At-Large) 2026-2030 Andrew Seliskar (10-year athlete representative) 2026-2030 Kate Lundsten (Coach) 2026-2030 Jack Bauerle (Coach) 2026-2030 Chris Brearton (Immediate past board chair) 2026-2030Read the full story on SwimSwam: Olympian Andrew Seliskar Wins Tie-Breaking Vote for USA Swimming BOD Position
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