Daniel Wiffen & Mona McSharry Lead 12-Strong Swim Ireland Team To Singapore
Olympic champion Daniel Wiffen and fellow Paris 2024 medallist Mona McSharry will spearhead Swim Ireland’s 12-strong team into the World Championships in Singapore.
Wiffen won the 800 and 1500 free double at the last edition in Doha in February of Olympic year before he went on to strike gold over 16 lengths and bronze in the longest race in the pool at La Defense Arena. McSharry – fifth in the 100m breaststroke in Doha – won bronze in Paris.
Mona McSharry: Photo Courtesy: Andrea Masini / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
Also on the team for the meet running from 27 July to 3 August is Olympic finalist Ellen Walshe who recently lowered the Irish 400IM record to 4:35.32 as she catapulted herself to third in the rankings. Shane Ryan – 50 back bronze medallist at last December’s short-course worlds – is joined by promising swimmers John Shortt, Evan Bailey and Ellie McCartney as well as European champion Danielle Hill and Olympic 50 free semifinalist Tom Fannon.
For the first time since 2017, there’ll be no Jon Rudd on poolside after he left his role as National Performance Director to head for Saudi Arabia. Head of Performance Pathways & Operations Andrew Reid has stepped up for an interim period.
With 10 athletes named to the European Aquatics Under 23 Championships team in Slovakia, this will form a final World Championships preparation meet for five athletes who are Singapore-bound, whilst the remainder of the team will focus on the championships as the pinnacle point for their summer racing. With the World University Games being held at the same time as the World Championships in 2025, only Lottie Cullen can be nominated to Student Sport Ireland for this team.
Two European Aquatics Junior Championship events, one pool-based and one open-water competition, see teams of 16 and two athletes named respectively to feature in Europe’s top competitions for those 18 years of age and under. Having won medals at this event last year, Olympian Grace Davison will be hoping to add to her collection in her final year of eligibility, whilst Shortt, the reigning European Junior 200m backstroke champion, will look to use this challenge as his final Singapore preparation.
Swim Ireland have nominated a group of athletes to the Olympic Federation of Ireland for this summer’s European Youth Olympic Festival in Macedonia, with names to be confirmed at a later stage, and the summer will be completed with a June selection to the World Aquatics Junior Championships, with the European Junior Championships serving as the Irish Trials for this event which is being held in Otopeni, Romania during August.
| 2025 World Aquatics Championships (50m), Singapore | ||||||
| Athlete Name | Home Coaching Programme | Coach | ||||
| Evan Bailey | National Centre Limerick | John Szaranek | ||||
| Jack Cassin | National Centre Limerick | John Szaranek | ||||
| Eoin Corby | National Centre Limerick | John Szaranek | ||||
| Tom Fannon | National Centre Dublin | Steven Beckerleg | ||||
| Danielle Hill | Larne SC | Peter Hill | ||||
| Ellie McCartney | National Centre Limerick | John Szaranek | ||||
| Mona McSharry | University of Tennessee, USA | Matt Kredich | ||||
| Shane Ryan | National Centre Dublin | Steven Beckerleg | ||||
| Cormac Rynn | National Centre Limerick | John Szaranek | ||||
| John Shortt | National Centre Limerick | John Szaranek | ||||
| Ellen Walshe | Templeogue SC, Dublin | Brian Sweeney | ||||
| Daniel Wiffen | Loughborough University, UK | Andi Manley | ||||
| 2025 European Aquatics Under 23 Championships, Slovakia | ||||||
| Athlete Name | Home Coaching Programme | Coach | ||||
| Evan Bailey | National Centre Limerick | John Szaranek | ||||
| Brandon Biss | Camden Swiss Cottage SC, UK | Adam Taylor | ||||
| Jack Cassin | National Centre Limerick | John Szaranek | ||||
| Eoin Corby | National Centre Limerick | John Szaranek | ||||
| Lottie Cullen | National Centre Ulster | Kevin Anderson | ||||
| Maria Godden | National Centre Limerick | John Szaranek | ||||
| Thomas Leggett | Stirling University, UK | Josh Williamson | ||||
| Ellie McCartney | National Centre Limerick | John Szaranek | ||||
| Cormac Rynn | National Centre Limerick | John Szaranek | ||||
| Oisin Tebite | National Centre Dublin | Steven Beckerleg | ||||
| 2025 FISU World University Games, Germany | ||||||
| Athlete Name | Home Coaching Programme | Coach | ||||
| Lottie Cullen | National Centre Ulster | Kevin Anderson | ||||
| 2025 European Aquatics Junior Championships, Slovakia | ||||||
| Athlete Name | Home Coaching Programme | Coach | ||||
| Reuben Alty | Millfield School, UK | Keiron Piper | ||||
| Adam Bradley | Mount Kelly, UK | Emma Collings-Barnes | ||||
| Thomas Bugler | Sundays Well SC, Cork | Richard Cassidy | ||||
| Adeline Cloutier | Tampa Elite Aquatics, USA | Ryan Gober | ||||
| Niamh Connery | Shark SC, Galway | Noel Barrett | ||||
| Clare Custer | Sarasota Sharks SC, USA | Brent Arckey | ||||
| Grace Davison | Ards SC, Newtonards | Curtis Coulter | ||||
| Sean Donnellan | Glenabyn SC, Dublin | Nickey Burke | ||||
| Matthew Hamilton | Plymouth College Aquatics, UK | Roberto Pavoni | ||||
| Phelim Hanley | Blackrock SC, Cork | Goretti Guilfoyle | ||||
| Ava Jones | Portmarnock/Dublin Pathway | Jonathan Preston | ||||
| Denis O’Brien | National Centre Limerick | John Szaranek | ||||
| Lucy O’Brien | National Centre Limerick | John Szaranek | ||||
| Tadgh O’Brien | Dolphin SC, Cork | Mick McCormack | ||||
| Luca Power | New Ross SC | Fran Ronan | ||||
| John Shortt | National Centre Limerick | John Szaranek | ||||
| 2025 European Aquatics Junior Open Water Championships, Portugal | ||||||
| Athlete Name | Home Coaching Programme | Coach | ||||
| Daragh Horgan | National Centre Limerick | John Szaranek | ||||
| Rebekah Friel | Aura Dundalk SC, Louth | Earl McCarthy | ||||