Thirteen Aggies Set to Compete at U.S. Olympic Team Trials

BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The Texas A&M women's swimming & diving program will see 13 Aggies compete at U.S. Olympic Team Trials, including 12 swimmers and one diver. Swimming Trials will take place in two waves this year, both held at the CHI Health Center Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska. Wave I will take place June 4^th through 7^th, while Wave II will run June 13^th through 20^th with the U.S. Olympic Team being named on the final day. Diving Trials will be held in Indianapolis June 6^th through 13^th at the Indiana University Natatorium.

Seven Aggies will compete at Wave II, with Lisa Bratton, Bethany Galat and U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist Breeja Larson earning an invitation to the meet after clocking top-six times nationally in 2019.

Bratton will compete in the 200 back at Trials. During the summer of 2019 she set a new World University Games record in Napoli with a time of 2:07.91 in the 200 back. Her record-setting time earned her a spot on Team USA and ranked as the third-fastest qualifying time in the event. The Richland, Washington native also claimed gold in the 200 back at the 2018 Short Course World Championships. While at A&M, Bratton helped the Aggies capture three straight SEC Championships and notched a pair of top-three finishes at NCAA National Championships. She was a 12-time All-American through her four years in Aggieland, earning first team honors with a fourth-place finish in the 200 back as a senior. Bratton also claimed a pair of individual SEC titles, winning the 200 IM and 200 backstroke as a sophomore.

Galat is in her fourth year with the national team and will compete in the 100 and 200 breast. She qualified in the 100 breast with a time of 1:07.13 at the 2019 TYR Pro Swim Des Moines, and the 200 breast with a time of 2:21.84 at the 2019 Pan American Games. Since her time at A&M she has earned a pair of silver medal finishes in the 200 breast, claiming second at the 2018 Short Course World Championships and the 2019 Pan American Games. Galat became an SEC champion in 2016, finishing first in the 200 breaststroke. A classmate of Bratton's, Galat earned First Team All-America honors in all three events she competed in at the 2018 NCAA National Championships. She finished second in the 200 breast, fourth in the 200 IM and fifth in the 400 IM.

Larson will compete in the 100 breast after qualifying for the event with a time of 1:06.78 at the 2019 Phillips 66 National Championships. The Mesa, Arizona native previously competed for the Red, White and Blue following her sophomore year at A&M and earned a Gold Medal with the 400-meter medley relay team at the 2012 Olympics in London. She became the second women's swimmer in program history to medal at the Olympics and the first to claim gold. Larson still holds the school record in the 100 breast (57.23), set at the 2014 NCAA Championships and is one of just four Aggies to earn 20-plus All-America honors in her career. Larson finished her collegiate career as a three-time NCAA Champion in the 100 breast, setting the NCAA record as a sophomore and later eclipsing her own mark as a junior and again as a senior.

Rising sophomore Chloe Stepanek made an impressive return to long-course competition in the month of May, posting a pair of Wave II qualifying marks. At the TYR Pro Swim Series meet in Indianapolis, Stepanek clocked in at 55.13 in the 100 free to punch her ticket to Omaha, and a week later went 25.62 in the 50 free in Austin to tack on a second qualifying event. Stepanek had a successful collegiate debut season that was capped off with a school record-breaking performance in the 200 free as the leadoff leg of the honorable mention All-America 800 free relay team, while also earning a pair of All-America honors with two top-eight individual finishes (100, 200 free).

Charlye Campbell will be in action in Indianapolis after earning a spot to compete at Trials during the postseason of her final collegiate season. Campbell closed out her A&M diving career in a historical way, becoming the first Aggie diver to earn All-America honors on both springboards since NCAA Champion Jaele Patrick did so at the end of the 2012 season. The Midland, Texas native posted a pair of seventh-place finishes at NCAA Championships after becoming the first female SEC springboard champion when she claimed the 3-meter this season.

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U.S. Olympic Team Trials Competitors
Wave I:
Kara Eisenmann
Kylie Powers
Alaya Smith
Camryn Toney

Wave II:
Lisa Bratton
Bethany Galat
Sarah Gibson
Breeja Larson
Taylor Pike
Chloe Stepanek
Caroline Theil

Diving:
Charlye Campbell

Schedule

Players Mentioned

Charlye Campbell

Kara Eisenmann

Taylor Pike

Kylie Powers

Alaya Smith

Chloe Stepanek

Caroline Theil

Camryn Toney

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