Artistic Swimming Preview
For the 10th Olympic Games in a row, Team USA will be competing in artistic swimming. The U.S. qualified athletes in the duet event and will look to break the Russian stranglehold on the gold medal, which has lasted since 2000. The U.S. has just one duet medal in that time, a bronze won by Alison Bartosik and Anna Kozlova in 2004.
In 2018, USA Synchronized Swimming — which has since changed its name to USA Artistic Swimming (USAAS), in line with international standards — named 11 athletes to its senior national team, who have trained together in Moraga, California, ever since. In 2019, the coaching staff of USAAS also changed significantly. Spain’s most decorated female Olympian, Andrea Fuentes, was named head coach, bringing a new voice and style to USAAS.
In 2019, the senior national team won bronze medals in duet and team at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. Also that year the team qualified for finals in every event at the 18th FINA World Championships. With only one returning Olympian on the roster, the senior national team featured a lot of young talent striving to qualify the U.S. in team for the first time since the Olympic Games Beijing 2008. The U.S. came up just .211 points shy of qualifying at the final qualification tournament in June 2021, but went home with spots safely secured in duet thanks to the combined efforts of Olympian Anita Alvarez, Ruby Remati and Lindi Schroeder.
Updated on June 18, 2021. For more information, contact the sport press officer here.