Swimmers on USA Swimming’s 2009 National Youth World Cup Team will begin competition at the FINA World Cup event in Stockholm, Sweden on Tuesday, November 10. The two-day event will feature 46 of the top youth swimmers in the U.S. as well as 14-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps (Baltimore, Md.), who is traveling and competing with the team as the USA Swimming National Team athlete representative.

The team will make two stops on the FINA World Cup circuit while in Europe, the first in Stockholm, November 10 and 11, and the second in Berlin, November 14 and 15. Each two-day meet consists of morning prelims and evening finals (A finals only) in a short-course meters pool.

Phelps will compete in a total of five events in Stockholm – the 100m free, 100m back, 100m IM, 100m fly and 200m IM. In Berlin, Phelps will swim the 200m fly, 100m and 200m IM, 200m free and 200m back. In his role as National Team representative, Phelps will serve as a mentor to the rising stars.

The Youth World Cup Team will be led by women’s captains Camille Adams (Cypress, Texas) and Amber McDermott (Mill Creek, Wash.), while the men’s team will be captained by Kyle Whitaker (Chesterton, Ind.) and Matt Barber (Kingwood, Texas).

The head coach for the 2009 Youth World Cup Team is Bob Bowman of North Baltimore Aquatic Club. Assistant coaches include Pete Raykovich (De Anza Cupertino Aquatics), Doug Rush (Longhorn Aquatics), Brian Brown (Asphalt Green Unified Aquatics), Todd Schmitz (Colorado Stars) and Tony Batis (Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics).

Fans can watch a webcast of the meet online at universalsports.com. Results are available on omegatiming.com. Additionally, stay tuned to usaswimming.org for all the news and updates from Stockholm and Berlin.