The USA Swim Team includes a total of 27 Olympians, including Olympic swimming veterans Jason Lezak and Amanda Beard, both of Irvine, Calif. The head coach for the women's team is Teri McKeever and the men's head coach is Gregg Troy. Bill Rose is the head coach for the U.S. open water team.
The U.S. team will face a strong field of competitors at the largest international event of the year, including Australia's Jessica Schipper, Eamon Sullivan, Stephanie Rice and Leisel Jones, Canada's Brent Hayden and Annamay Pierse, Japan's Ryosuke Irie and Kosuke Kitajima, Korea's Tae Hwan Park, China's Zige Liu, Brazil's Cesar Cielo and Tunisia's Ous Mellouli. A total of 21 countries, including the charter nations of Canada, Australia, Japan and the U.S., will be represented at the meet. Results and rosters for the 2010 Pan Pac Swimming Championships are available on-line.
USA Swimming is the host of the 2010 Mutual of Omaha Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. It's the first time the U.S. has hosted an International meet since Short Course World Championships in 2004 in Indianapolis. The Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, which takes place once every four years, was last held in Victoria, British Columbia in 2006. That year, the USA Swim Team captured a total of 48 medals - 26 of them gold - and smashed five world records and 20 meet records. The last time this meet took place in the United States was in 1995, when the meet was held in Atlanta, Ga.
The Pan Pacific Swimming Championships are held under the oversight of the Pan Pacific Swimming Association. The Association was established in the mid 1980s and is made up of the four founding swimming federations - Swimming Australia, Swimming Canada, the Japan Amateur Swimming Federations and USA Swimming. These charter nations developed the concept of the swimming competition to provide their national teams with first class international competition between the two major international swimming competitions - the Olympic Games and the FINA World Championships.
