By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
2025 PRO SWIM SERIES – AUSTIN
January 14-17, 2026 Austin, Texas Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center LCM (50 meters) Meet Central Psych SheetsThe entries for the first major domestic swimming competition of the new year have dropped, and we’ve got a loaded field heading to the opening stop of the 2026 Pro Swim Series in Austin.
Not surprisingly, the field includes the talent-stacked pro group training under Bob Bowman at Texas, led by 2025 world champions Summer McIntosh and Leon Marchand, and we’ve also got a strong group of American swimmers and an elite French contingent heading to Austin.
THE TEXAS PROS
Our 2025 Swammy Award winners for Female and Male Swimmer of the Year, McIntosh and Marchand swept the individual medley events at the 2025 World Championships and hold world records in all four races, and they’ll both race the 200 and 400 IM next week to kick off 2026.
McIntosh is also entered in the women’s 100 free and 100 fly, seeded 6th and 2nd, respectively, while Marchand will also contest the 200 back, where he’s seeded 3rd, and the 200 breast, where he’s the top seed as the reigning Olympic champion.
Other Texas pros entered in the meet included female stars Regan Smith and Simone Manuel, and on the men’s side, there’s the versatile Shaine Casas and Carson Foster, along with freestyle specialists Luke Hobson and Chris Guiliano.
Smith is the top seed in all four events she’s entered in, leading the women’s 50, 100 and 200 back and 100 fly, while Manuel is the #1 seed in the women’s 50 free and also holds entries in the 100 free, 200 free, 50 fly and 100 fly.
Casas has an interesting mix of events, entered in what would have to be considered his two best events, the men’s 100 fly and 200 IM, along with the 100 and 200 free, showing his intention to continue vying for spots on the U.S. relays in major competition, plus the 50 back, where he’s the top seed.
Foster, notably not in the 400 IM, will join Marchand and Casas in the 200 IM, and will also be in the 200 free, 200 back and leads the 200 fly with the top seed.
U.S. PAN PAC ROSTER MEMBERS
In addition to the six American Texas pros mentioned above, there will be 12 more members of the 2026 U.S. Pan Pacific Championship roster competing in Austin, headlined by Katie Ledecky.
Ledecky, coming off a historic year that included breaking her world record in the 800 free and sweeping the 800 and 1500 free at the World Championships for the sixth time, will swim in her three best events at the meet, owning the top seed in the women’s 400, 800 and 1500 free.
Ranking 2nd to Ledecky in all three races on the psych sheets is Claire Weinstein, one of the more surprising entrants at the meet, given that the majority of college swimmers have opted not to compete. Weinstein, currently in her freshman year at Cal, is entered in all six female freestyle events, including owning top billing in the 200 free.
Other key Pan Pac members include reigning Olympic champ and Ledecky’s training mate at Florida Bobby Finke, budding junior star Rylee Erisman, and the fastest male American 100 freestyler ever, Jack Alexy.
Finke will race the men’s 400, 800 and 1500 free, along with the 200 fly and 400 IM, while Alexy is the top seed in the men’s 50 and 100 free and will also contest the 200 free and 50 back.
Erisman, still just 16, will race two of her best events in the 100 and 200 free, but will expand out a bit with additional entries in the 400 free, 100 back and 200 IM.
2026 Pan Pac Roster Members Racing In Austin:
Rylee Erisman Katie Ledecky Simone Manuel Anna Peplowski Regan Smith Skyler Smith Claire Weinstein Emma Weyant Jack Alexy Shaine Casas Bobby Finke Carson Foster Chris Guiliano Luke Hobson Gabriel Jett Josh Matheny Van Mathias Patrick SammonINTERNATIONAL NAMES
A strong group of European swimmers will head across the pond to race at the first PSS meet of the year, including some of the best swimmers in France.
A significant portion of France’s roster from the 2025 World Championships will be competing, including double gold medalist Maxime Grousset, who won the 50 and 100 fly last summer and will race those two events plus the 50 and 100 free next week.
The French squad will also have double backstroke medalist from the 2025 Worlds, Yohann Ndoye-Brouard, in the mix, with the 25-year-old coming off a breakout year that saw him win bronze in the men’s 100 and 200 back in Singapore.
Ndoye-Brouard will race all three backstroke events and the 100 free in Austin.
The women’s field features French sprinters Marie Wattel and Beryl Gastaldello, with both swimmers among the top contenders in the 50 and 100 free, while Gastaldello will also race the 50 and 100 back and Wattel is entered in the 200 free, 50 fly and 100 fly.
Reigning world champion Anna Elendt will also be in action, racing in her previous home pool after primarily being based out of Germany since graduating from Texas in 2024.
Elendt is coming off winning gold in the women’s 100 breast at the 2025 World Championships, and she also won the European SC title just last month in the 200 breast.
On the men’s side, the international group also included Irish Olympic champion Daniel Wiffen, who is representing the Pleasanton Seahawks after they sponsored his visa to allow him to train stateside.
Wiffen and Bobby Finke will go head-to-head in the men’s 800 and 1500 free, with Wiffen having edged out the American for gold in the former at the Paris Olympics. Wiffen will also race the 400 free, where he’s ranked 2nd and sandwiched between Belgian and Cal pro Lucas Henveaux, who’s seeded 1st, and Americans Kieran Smith, Luke Hobson, Ryan Erisman and Finke, setting up what could be an exciting race.
Kyrgyzstan’s Denis Petrashov, who won bronze in the 100 breast at the 2025 Worlds, will also be in action, owning the top seed in that event while sitting near the top of the field in the 50 and 200 breast.
OTHER KEY NAMES
The biggest name we’ve yet to touch on is Caeleb Dressel, the nine-time Olympic gold medalist and current world record holder in the men’s 100 fly who appears to be rejuvenated and ready to take a run at the LA Olympics despite failing to make the Pan Pac roster last year.
Dressel, 29, has entered his four primary events, coming in seeded 2nd in the 50 free and 100 fly, along with ranking 4th in the 50 fly and 5th in the 100 free.
Other Americans in the field worth noting include Brooks Curry, Hunter Armstrong, Matt King and Kieran Smith on the men’s side, and Charlotte Crush and Teagan O’Dell for the women. O’Dell, like Weinstein, is one of the few current college swimmers competing, also in her first year at Cal.
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