Avon’s Madison Kennedy
Avon’s Madison Kennedy has been voted by her teammates as one of four captains on the Team USA swim team that is competing in the BHP Billiton Aquatic Super Series, which opens Friday at Perth’s HBF Stadium in Australia.
The 27-member roster voted Kennedy and Cammile Adams (Cypress, Texas) as the women’s captains and Cullen Jones (Irvington, N.J.) and Darian Townsend (Phoenix, Ariz.) as the men’s captains.
Featuring teams from the U.S., Australia, China and Japan, the pool competition for the BHP Billiton Aquatic Super Series is scheduled to be held Friday and Saturday, followed by Sunday’s Swim the Swan open water 10-kilometer race.
It’s the first time that Kennedy and Adams have been selected to lead the U.S. team as captains. “It’s incredibly cool to be recognized by your teammates,” Kennedy said. “I’ve always looked up to past captains so to be named one is pretty surreal.”
Adams added, “I’ve never been voted a captain before, so this is extremely exciting and humbling,” she said. “To be able to come here and represent the United States is an honor.”
In the pool, Team USA will be led by Olympic gold medalists Ryan Lochte (Daytona Beach, Fla.), Tyler Clary (Riverside, Calif.) and Jones on the men’s side, with Adams and fellow 2012 Olympians Micah Lawrence (Pflugerville, Texas) and Shannon Vreeland (Overland Park, Kansas) pacing the women.