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2011 AT&T Winter National Championships
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 28, 2011
Contact: Matt Whewell (719-237-5907 / mwhewell@usaswimming.org)
Lochte, Torres, Soni and Hansen Headline the 2011 AT&T Winter National
Championships
Sixty-four National Team members are scheduled to swim in Atlanta, Ga.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Olympic gold medalists Ryan Lochte (Daytona Beach, Fla.), Dara Torres (Parkland, Fla.),
Rebecca Soni (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Brendan Hansen (Havertown, Pa.) will compete at the 2011 AT&T Winter National
Championships, December 1-3. The event which will take place at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Ga., will
consist of the top American swimmers including 34 members of the 2011 FINA World Championships U.S. Team.
Other top swimmers scheduled to compete include four-time Olympian Amanda Beard (Irvine, Calif.), Olympic gold medalists
Ed Moses (Loma Linda, Calif.) and Peter Vanderkaay (Rochester, Mich.) as well as 2011 World Champion Missy Franklin
(Centennial, Colo.). A total of 64 out of 108 U.S. National Team members will be in Atlanta, Ga. for the three-day meet.
A strong fi eld of international competitors will also be in Atlanta, including Japanese Olympic gold medalist Kosuke Kitajima,
France’s Fred Bousquet and Laure Manaudou, Great Britain’s Gemma Spofforth and South Africa’s Darian Townsend
among others.
Atlanta-area swimmers to compete in the meet include Olympic medalists Eric Shanteau (Lilburn, Ga.), Amanda Weir
(Lawrenceville, Ga.) and Kara Lynn Joyce (Athens, Ga.) along with 2008 Olympian Kathleen Hersey (Atlanta, Ga.) and
National Team member Jack Brown (Atlanta, Ga.).
Preliminaries will start at 9 a.m. ET Thursday through Saturday, with fi nals beginning at 6 p.m. ET. Tickets may be purchased
at the door or online. Footage from the meet will air nationally on NBC on Sunday, December 4 from 2-3 p.m. ET. USA
Swimming will also have a live webcast available of prelims and fi nals for all three days.
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