Paris Veterans Lead 2025 U.S. Paralympic National Team Roster
The 2025 U.S. Paralympic national team roster was announced on Thursday, featuring 28 athletes who competed at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris.
The roster of 49 athletes – 31 women, 18 men – comprise the national team as the page turns to the first year of the 2028 Paralympic quad. The first major priority on the schedule is the 2025 Para Swimming World Championships in September in Singapore.
The national team includes 20 of the 21 women who represented the U.S. in Paris, with double silver medalist Alexandra Truwit the only one missing. The team is headlined by 31-time Paralympic medalist Jessica Long, who has pledged a desire to swim onto Los Angeles in what could be her seventh Paralympics. The full national team roster is below.
All of the program’s major names are included, among them Paris Paralympic champions Leanne Smith, Christie Raleigh Crossley, Morgan Stickney, Gia Pergolini, Olivia Chambers and Mallory Weggeman, along with a number of the program’s stalwarts.
The men’s side includes more turnover, with four Paralympians not on the national team. That includes David Abrahams, who announced his attention to retire after Paris. Abbas Karimi, Jack O’Neil and Matthew Torres are among the others missing. Teenager Koehn Boyd, off a stellar nationals performance in December, is included.
“We are excited about continuing to build on the success these athletes had in Paris as we start to focus on not just Singapore, but also L.A.,” U.S. Paralympics Swimming director Amanda Duke Boulet said in a press release. “The first year of a Paralympic quad sets the tone for the four-year cycle, and we are optimistic about this incredible group of athletes as they lead the way for us in 2025.”
The Para Swimming World Series begins next week in Melbourne, Australia. It will include seven stops through June, included in Indianapolis on April 24-26.
2025 U.S. Paralympic National Team
Women
- Hannah Aspden (Raleigh, North Carolina)
- Chloe Cederholm (Salt Lake City, Utah)
- Olivia Chambers (Little Rock, Arkansas)
- McKenzie Coan (Clarkesville, Georgia)
- Maria Francescotti (Bluffton, South Carolina)
- Julia Gaffney (Mayflower, Arkansas)
- Megan Gioffreda (Timonium, Maryland)
- McClain Hermes (Dacula, Georgia)
- Audrey Kim (Salt Lake City, Utah)
- Keegan Knott (Lake Villa, Illinois)
- Katie Kubiak (Cedarburg, Wisconsin)
- Ahalya Lettenberger (Glen Ellyn, Illinois)
- Jessica Long (Baltimore, Maryland)
- Elizabeth Marks (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
- Grace Nuhfer (Indianapolis, Indiana)
- Anastasia Pagonis (Long Island, New York)
- Carolyn Pennington (Elkton, Maryland)
- Gia Pergolini (Atlanta, Georgia)
- Cali Prochaska (Fort Wayne, Indiana)
- Christie Raleigh Crossley (Toms River, New Jersey)
- Emma Roberts (Asheville, North Carolina)
- Summer Schmit (Stillwater, Minnesota)
- Natalie Sims (Edina, Minnesota)
- Elizabeth Smith (Muncie, Indiana)
- Leanne Smith (Salem, Massachusetts)
- Morgan Stickney (Cary, North Carolina)
- Kenley Teller (Manassas, Virginia)
- Mallory Weggemann (Eagan, Minnesota)
- Mei White (Athens, Georgia)
- Taylor Winnett (Hershey, Pennsylvania)
- Colleen Young (St. Louis, Missouri)
Men
- Evan Austin (Terre Haute, Indiana)
- Koehn Boyd (Ramsey, Minnesota)
- Carson Bruner (Dayton, Ohio)
- Noah Busch (Dunkirk, Maryland)
- Lucas Culotta (Broadview Heights, Ohio)
- Yaseen El-Demerdash (Overland Park, Kansas)
- Jamal Hill (Inglewood, California)
- Noah Jaffe (Carlsbad, California)
- Trevor Lukacsko (Bernardsville, New Jersey)
- Emmett Martin (Canton, Michigan)
- Owen McNear (Evans, Georgia)
- Morgan Ray (St. Augustine, Florida)
- Lawrence Sapp (Waldorf, Maryland)
- Zach Shattuck (Mount Airy, Maryland)
- Aiden Stivers (Fishers, Indiana)
- Aaron Thomas (DeWitt, Michigan)
- Evan Wilkerson (Wake Forest, North Carolina)
- Braxton Wong (Clovis, California)
