34-Player Pool for 2025 World Games Team Revealed

Colorado Springs, CO (February 13, 2025)—USA Ultimate announced today the 34 athletes that will participate in a second tryout for the U.S. National Team that will represent the United States at the World Games next summer.

Following an initial tryout that welcomed 78 players from around the country, Team USA coaches made their first round of cuts, inviting a pool of players back to San Antonio, Texas for another shot at making the 14-person team that will compete in Chengdu, China in August.

Occurring every four years, the World Games is an international, multi-sport event that includes the most competitive and highest profile ultimate tournament in the world. Ultimate competes as a mixed-gender sport and will include a field of eight teams: Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, France, Germany, Japan and the United States.

The 2025 World Games takes place August 7-17, with the ultimate tournament scheduled for August 12-16.

Team USA will enter the World Games as five-time defending champions, having won gold at every edition since 2005. Overall, Team USA has a 30-5 record at the World Games, including five titles and a second-place finish in 2001.

Of the 34 players invited to the second tryout, 10 were on the squad that competed at the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Ala. – Claire Chastain, Khalif El-Salaam, Carolyn Finney, Dylan Freechild, Kaela Helton, Chris Kocher, Grant Lindsley, Sarah Meckstroth, Carolyn Normile and Claire Trop.

Finney, Freechild, Lindsley and Kocher are all vying for their third trip to the World Games after also representing Team USA at the 2017 edition in Wroclaw, Poland.

Head coach Matty Tsang returns to the team as head coach and is supported by assistants Miranda Knowles and Nancy Sun and selection assistant Carlos Lopez.