At least one swimmer age 15 or younger has made each of the last five U.S. Olympic teams.
That would mean that Cassidy Bayer, the youngest U.S. national team member at age 16, should not be counted out for the Rio Games. Even though she’s dealing with exercise-induced asthma and missing a muscle in her right shoulder, that latter sidelining her for most of 2014, according to NBC News.
Bayer broke out at the U.S. Championships in August by finishing second in the 200m butterfly with a time that ranks her fourth among all Americans in the event in 2015.