SwimSwam's Wild Predictions And Alter Ego Takes For 2025
01/03/2025 12:56 PM
It’s that time of the year again, where the SwimSwam staff will make it’s annual list of wild predictions for 2025. In addition, the staff also provided alter ego takes, which are more egregious, not entirely swimming-related predictions (which sometimes do come true as well!).
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Wild Predictions
Yanyan: An international male freshman wins an NCAA title
Braden: Thomas Ceccon will wind up coming back to the U.S. with Leon after their stints in Australia and training in Austin.
Barry: Gretchen Walsh breaks Missy Franklin‘s NCAA record in the women’s 200-yard free
James: Leon Marchand (200 free) and Summer McIntosh (800 free) experiment with new events at long course worlds and win gold
Robert: The Mid-Atlantic region will account for at least 2/3 U.S. men’s breaststrokers at this summer’s major international competitions (Worlds, World University Games, and Junior Worlds)
Madeline: Someone not named Regan Smith or Kaylee McKeown breaks a long course women’s backstroke world record
Mark: No world records will be broken at the 2025 World Championships
Nicole: Caeleb Dressel announces his retirement from competitive swimming.
Retta: Angharad Evans lands on the 100 breast podium at Worlds
Anya: Gretchen Walsh wins the 50 free at NCAAs by over a second
Alter Ego Takes
Yanyan: Something controversial happens at 2025 Worlds and Stephen A. Smith starts talking about it on First Take
Braden: The ISL will attempt a revival, but will (not) pay their athletes entirely in cryptocurrency.
Barry: Gretchen Walsh breaks Katie Ledecky‘s NCAA record in the 500 free
James: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces swimming as Canada’s new unofficial national sport due to the country’s recent failures in international hockey and Summer McIntosh‘s Olympic success (lacrosse is the official national sport)
Madeline: Swimming becomes the new hockey in romance novels
Robert: A leak of U.S. IP data reveals to the world that “Andrew,” SwimSwam’s most notorious commentator, is actually Eddie Reese‘s burner account
Mark: I will, again, be victorious in fantasy Tour de France against James and Sophie (Kaufman)
Nicole: Michael Phelps goes pro in golf
Retta: Sun Yang races at Worlds and carries a hammer in his walkout
Anya: Michael Phelps comes out of retirement to help U.S. men’s swimming
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