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Jonathan White

Hong Kong swimming star Siobhan Haughey could turn out for a new team in next season’s International Swimming League after organisers announced a radical new draft system.
Haughey impressed for Energy Standard in the Budapest bubble last season breaking several Asian records along the way. 
She was in the running for MVP, finishing seventh, but could not help the inaugural champions retain their title in season two as they lost the final to the Cali Condors.
Now, with the ISL shaking things up with a draft system, the 23-year-old may be on the move again, having swapped from DC Trident where she was the team’s top scorer in season one.

Last season most teams had 32 swimmers – 16 men and 16 women – but they can only protect half of that squad with the new draft, meaning that some of the biggest names in swimming could swap teams.
Haughey, who has eight wins from eight in the 200m in the ISL, would be one of the most in demand if Energy Standard do not retain her. 
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Teams can decide to keep up to 15 of their current swimmers, with five announced a week before the draft begins in June, a month ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Fans can also vote to keep one released swimmer per team, which means that up to 16 of the 36-swimmer roster can be from the current season.
“By introducing the ISL Draft, the league is adding yet another element of excitement and intrigue ahead of its third season,’’ ISL founder Konstantin Grigorishin said in a statement.
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“The ISL Draft will be one of the pillars of our continued development of a high-quality ‘sportainment’ product, promoting ISL athletes and their achievements within our team competition format, as we combine strategy, performance and point-based rankings with gamification.”
The next 11 swimmers will be picked from the draft pool with teams choosing from the lowest-ranked Aqua Centurions to last season’s champions Cali Condors.
Up to nine more swimmers can be picked from the draft pool over the next 30 days to round out the roster to a maximum 36. 
Swimmers can declare themselves eligible for the draft pool later this month.


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ISL teams can only keep maximum of 16 swimmers – around half of their squad – from last season before rivals get to pick from the pool of talent.


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ISL 2021: Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey could be on move with first International Swimming League draft

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Teams can keep maximum of 16 swimmers from last season before rivals get to pick from the pool

Fans to be able to retain one swimmer per team from the Budapest bubble ahead of roster revamp