Olympic Trials: PVS Swimmers qualify with 2 weeks to go for Wave 1

By Reach for the Wall Staff

As announced in January, the Olympic Trials meet is separated into two Waves- Wave I scheduled for June 4-7 and Wave II scheduled for June 13-20. The qualifying period for either Wave is November 28, 2018- May 30, 2021. Last weekend, several teams swam locally and traveled to Richmond to give their swimmers an opportunity to qualify under the deadline. There is one meet on the PVS schedule for this weekend, so we’ll see if there are any other ‘last minute’ qualifiers. For reference, here’s how the 2 Waves are set up with the qualifying times:

• Qualifying standards are Long Course Meters (LCM) only.
• The qualifying period for both Wave I and Wave II of the Olympic Trials is November 28, 2018, through May 30, 2021, with the exception of the top two finishers in each event at Wave I who will qualify to Wave II.
• Swimmers who have achieved the original time standards within the qualifying period, but have not qualified for Wave II, will be invited to participate in Wave I of Trials.
• If an athlete achieves a Wave II time standard prior to the close of the qualifying period, they must swim in Wave II and will not be permitted to swim in Wave I. These athletes will be allowed to swim any event at Wave II in which they have the new or original qualifying standard.
• Swimmers who compete in Wave I may qualify for Wave II by finishing in the top two (2) places in an event. These swimmers can swim all events in Wave II for which they have achieved the original qualifying standard.
  
  Only the athletes taking part in Wave II of the Trials will have the ability to qualify for the 2021 U.S. Olympic Team

We ran a report from USA Swimming to tally all the swimmers who affiliated themselves with PVS that achieved Wave I & Wave II times during the qualifying period. This doesn’t indicate that the swimmers will actually compete, just that they achieved the time standards. According to the report, PVS has 18 male and 25 female qualifiers. Further, 5 of the male and 13 of the female qualifiers have achieved the Wave II standard. Here’s the full listing, sorted alpha by name, listing each event a swimmer has qualified for separately. the age listed is the age the swimmer was/is at the time they achieved the standard. Three girls, Erin Gemmell, Camille Spink and Eleanor Sun achieved at least one of their standards at age 14!

Congratulations to all & we’re a bit excited for the action to start June 4th!