Northeast Florida's next wave steps up: Which locals will race at USA Swimming nationals?
With Olympic champions Caeleb Dressel and Ryan Murphy on the sidelines, a new wave of Jacksonville-area swimmers will lead the way for the First Coast against the nation's best in the pool over five days at the USA Swimming National Championships, scheduled for June 3-7 at the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis.
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While recent Florida High School Athletic Association champions like Andy Kravchenko (Bolles) and Carter Wright (Bishop Kenny) will be in action, swimming giants Dressel and Murphy — both top-five honorees in the Times-Union's Jax Greatest 100 series in 2024 — both elected not to enter this meet.
Murphy announced earlier in May that he planned to take a break from competitive swimming in the summer, while leaving the door open for a return to action ahead of the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.
Dressel had competed at a Pro Swim Series event in Fort Lauderdale from April 30 to May 3, including a fourth-place finish in the 50-meter butterfly, but his name did not appear among the list of entrants announced for nationals by USA Swimming. His wife, Meghan, announced in a November social media post that the couple's second child is due to arrive in June.
Between them, Dressel and Murphy have combined for 19 medals, 14 of them gold, over the last three Olympics for the United States.
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Also not in this meet are former Episcopal swimmer Julian Smith, NCAA breaststroke champion this year with Florida, and former Bartram Trail swimmer Macguire McDuff, a finalist at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials.
One Jacksonville-area name that is back in action, though, is Santo Condorelli. The Bolles graduate, who won an Olympic silver medal representing Italy in the 4x100 relay in Tokyo, is scheduled to race in the 50 freestyle.
Olympic gold medalists Bobby Finke, Katie Ledecky and Torri Huske are among the top Americans who will be racing in Indianapolis.
What's at stake?
This isn't an Olympic year, but there's still plenty at stake.
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In general, as long as they meet a required qualifying time and the team does not exceed 26 men and 26 women, the top two finishers in each individual event qualify for the World Aquatics Championships from July 27-Aug. 3 in Singapore.
The highest-ranking finishers from age 14-18 as of Dec. 31, 2025 can qualify for the World Junior Championships in Otopeni, Romania. USA Swimming has already designated Bolles aquatics director Peter Verhoef as men's coach for that event.
The full list of Jacksonville-area qualifiers is below, as listed by USA Swimming. Ordinal seed positions for each event are in parentheses.
Santo Condorelli, Bolles
Men's 50 free (15th)
T.J. Frost, Bartram Trail (Ohio State)
Men's 200 IM (48th), 400 IM (48th), 400 free (28th)
Louis Joos, Bolles
Men's 200 breast (57th)
Andy Kravchenko, Bolles
Andy Kravchenko of Bolles races the boys 200-yard freestyle at the Frank Holleman Invitational for high school swimming on September 21, 2024. [Clayton Freeman/Florida Times-Union]
Men's 100 free (34th), 50 free (33rd)
Landon Kyser, Bolles (Wisconsin)
Men's 100 breast (36th)
Ethan Maloney, Bolles (Virginia Tech)
Men's 200 breast (19th), 50 breast (9th), 100 breast (10th)
Aidan Paro, Bolles (Louisville)
Men's 200 fly (43rd), 50 fly (16th), 100 fly (19th)
Drew Salls, Sandalwood (N.C. State)
Men's 100 free (38th), 50 free (11th)
Xavier Sohovich, Bolles
Men's 100 free (52nd), 200 free (50th), 400 free (38th)
Sara Stotler, Clay (Tennessee)
Women's 200 IM (40th), 200 fly (13th), 50 fly (20th), 100 fly (32nd)
Carter Wright, Bishop Kenny
Men's 100 free (30th)
Luke Zardavets, Nease
Men's 200 breast (49th), 50 breast (50th), 100 breast (56th)
USA Swimming national championships: How to watch
Preliminaries: 10 a.m. June 3-7, streaming on USA Swimming Network
Final rounds: 7 p.m. June 3-7, streaming on Peacock
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: USA Swimming national championships 2025: Northeast Florida qualifiers
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