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Such an impressive year 1 for Bob Bowman and staff. They maximized the team's returning talent, and 3 of our big 4 scorers were transfers he brought in. Everything matters when the final score is close, but the Notre Dame transfer Chris Giuliano was absolutely critical because his sprinting elevated our relays significantly. Next year the playing field is kinda blown wide open, as this year's championships was dominated by seniors and COVID 5th years. Fortunately Texas easily has the most returning points of any team, and we have a great recruiting class coming in. But another wrinkle is most teams are now having to cut athletes based on new roster limitations because of NIL stuff - Texas had 40 on roster this year and need to trim to 22 by fall. The transfer portal will be crazy this year.
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Great night for Texas. Our top swimmers are bringing it, including those 3 individual titles: Hubert Kos - 100 back, Rex Maurer - 400 IM, and Luke Hobson - 200 Free. A couple surprise freshman finalists were the cherry on top - Cooper Lucas 6th in 400 IM and diver Jacob Welsh came out of nowhere to grab 4th in the 3 meter (he was 17th at SECs). Indiana is probably out of it, they have the best divers but just don't have the swimming star power. The swimming community seems to think Texas has locked up the title, but I'm still worried about Cal. Today is their best day in the pool and they could overcome our lead if they swim as well as they did yesterday. It could come down to the last relay.
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Illegal turn on his backstroke to breaststroke transition. It was really blatant, and almost looked like he forgot he was not doing a normal backstroke turn for a second (he mainly competes in the backstroke events)
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A pretty good night for Texas. It could have been even better as one of our 200 IM finalists was DQed, costing us 11 points. Cal and Indiana are both looking strong as well, and could overtake us - Indiana may sweep the diving events, and Cal will have a really strong final day. I really can't decide which one I'm more worried about. But if we show up like we did today, Texas is probably the slight favorite to win the title.
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Texas women as a team performed well much of the year but kinda laid an egg this weekend. That's kind of our coach's reputation - well liked, recruits well and develops her athletes, but can't get the big meet taper quite right. Still I think 3rd place is nothing to scoff at and they brought home 3 individual titles. Emma Sticklen set an NCAA record in her final collegiate swim.
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Stanford is the surprise of this meet with an uncharacteristically strong performance. Combined with a dud performance from the Texas sophomore class (who had a great NCAAs last year), it has created an unexpected battle for 2nd place. I think we still come out on top today, bolstered by our strong divers. 2 Texas freshmen have already won individual titles, a good omen for the years to come. And our best overall swimmer, grad student Emma Sticklen, has a good shot at repeating her title today in the 200 butterfly.
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If Texas wants to compete for the Director's Cup in the future, T&F is pretty important. Does anyone have any insight on if this is truly a rebuilding year, and we have good recruits coming etc? For both teams to suddenly drop off like this is a bit jarring.
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Men's program is also unranked now. Rebuilding year for both?
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Plus two incoming blue chip recruits. The program has a good future
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Texas hires new Swimming and Diving Coach - Bob Bowman
BevoBae replied to BurntOrange&White's topic in UT Sports
Both teams were strong favorites for the SEC titles, and delivered. Similar script for the women and men - Tennessee and Florida both have some stars and incredible relays but didn't have the depth to keep up with Texas. Now the mystery is how much improvement we will see at the NCAA championships next month. Capitani's teams are often pretty flat between conference and NCAAs. But the Texas women are a talented and well balanced team. Barring a catastrophic collapse, they are a lock for 2nd place at NCAAs. Virginia's team could catch norovirus the day of NCAAs and still win. The men have more variance, with a much better shot at the NCAA title but also a strong chance of falling to 3rd place. Bowman's squads haven't reliably peaked at NCAAs like we got used to with Eddie's Texas teams in the past. Texas has the talent to win but will need to fire on all cylinders to beat Indiana and Cal at NCAAs, after both bolstered their rosters by adding Olympians this spring semester. This annoyingly includes Texas alum and Olympic medalist Caspar Corbeau who made a surprise return to NCAAs after graduating in 2023, swimming now for Indiana (rumor is Texas was concerned about his eligibility so he looked elsewhere). Texas also played the spring addition game, but one of ours didn't materialize, as Polish Olympian Ksawery Masiuk is now slated to join in the fall instead. The NCAA championships format rewards sprint heavy teams because of the importance of relays, and that is our weakness (as evidenced by these SEC championships, where we won the meet handily but went 0/5 in relay titles). It's going to be very tight. -
Yeah I was a bit baffled about him being the #1 ranked player in the country in the fall
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Bravo to the coaching staff! Getting back to the use of the portal that worked best for them - shore up our teams weaknesses rather than going after just another heavy arm. She's known as a good libero - is she better than Halter? And more of a passing or defense strength?
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Instantly dropping us out of team title contention. So she attended classes for a semester for no reason? Doubtful she will continue schooling, at least no time soon. She was constantly hounded with questions of why she wasn't going pro... maybe it got through to her eventually
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Guctekin plays good defense but would be a serve receive liability - Wisconsin hides her because she is error prone and streaky. I don't think she's enough of an upgrade.
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Wow feels like we stole that set. Showing grit we lacked much of the season!
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Agreed, priority should be DS. We have so much pin and MB talent already here and top recruits coming in. DS/libero transfers are arguably why we won our 2 natties.
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Texas hires new Swimming and Diving Coach - Bob Bowman
BevoBae replied to BurntOrange&White's topic in UT Sports
Texas just completed their mid season invite, and crushed it. Most swimmers went personal best times, including many who had previously plateaued since high school. Holdovers from last year's team Will Modglin and Nate Germonprez have gone from impressive NCAA scoring freshman to individual title contenders as sophomores. Transfer Rex Maurer was a top recruit who had a disappointing freshman year at Stanford. But now he's suddenly elite again - he broke an NCAA record in his first big race as a Longhorn, and put up 2 more NCAA leading times. Bowman is just a great coach. He has already delivered in the development of swimmers even in just a few moths training them, and has some great recruits coming in. Eddie Reese will always be the GOAT, but Bowman is a worthy heir. The women did great too. Carol Capitani has gotten flack from the swimming community for being a better recruiter than coach, but she and her staff seem to have figured it out the last 2-3 years and the program continues to gain momentum. Emma Sticklen from Katy has become a star, setting program records left and right. Very deep team, great relays, probably a lock for 2nd place at NCAAs. -
Texas hires new Swimming and Diving Coach - Bob Bowman
BevoBae replied to BurntOrange&White's topic in UT Sports
The aforementioned Notre Dame transfer picked Texas. We lacked a drop dead sprinter and Chris Guiliano may be the best in the country, making the US Olympic team in the 50, 100 and 200 freestyles this past summer. Texas has gotta be a lock for top 3 at NCAAs now, and has a very good chance at the title. Indiana may be the slight favorite as they have similarly beefed up with transfers and their divers are Olympians, Cal kept their best swimmers around for 5th years and has some strong freshmen coming in, and Florida is deep. Regardless, the accumulation of talent in Bowman's first year is truly remarkable. https://swimswam.com/olympic-gold-medalist-chris-guiliano-announces-transfer-to-texas-from-notre-dame/ -
You can still hide the setter in serve receive, and just put a passing pin hitter in the back to help cover the court. Like in a 5-1 when the setter is in the back row rotations.
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Texas hires new Swimming and Diving Coach - Bob Bowman
BevoBae replied to BurntOrange&White's topic in UT Sports
Depending on where a high level transfer from Notre Dame ends up, this add could put Texas men's team into title contention already in Bowman's first year. I've been hesitant to bump them into that category because they still lack key pieces of typical title teams (elite sprinters and breaststrokers) but they have quickly assembled crazy talent in IM, backstroke and mid-distance freestyle events. https://swimswam.com/world-championship-medalist-ksawery-masiuk-announces-texas-commitment-for-january-2025/ -
Bowman is bringing in 4 transfers so far. One of them just made the US Olympic team and has at least 3 years of NCAA eligibility left. https://swimswam.com/first-paris-2024-u-s-swimming-olympian-is-aaron-shackell/
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Looking at the TX-OU battles this year, it seems like Citlaly and Czech have had success against them maybe moreso that Mac/Kavan. And Citlaly has several wins against good teams. I didn't follow the early tournament games - is she in a slump right now?
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Three of ASU's best 4 returning swimmers (I'm assuming Marchand will go pro) have already entered the transfer portal. Unclear if they plan to follow Bowman to Texas but certainly possible. If they transfer here, their arrival plus our current roster and hopefully a sprinter transfer or two could make up a championship team.
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Texas hires new Swimming and Diving Coach - Bob Bowman
BevoBae replied to BurntOrange&White's topic in UT Sports
Thank you for sharing that information, definitely gives some insight into his style and unfortunately I've read similar accounts elsewhere. I'm hoping he either keeps on Wyatt or brings in an alum like Brendan Hansen to try and maintain some of the Texas culture that Eddie established. -
Home run hire. He created Phelps, and developed the swim star of this coming Olympics - a French kid named Leon Marchand who could have won the NCAA title in at least half of the events. He brought ASU from nothing a few years ago to a convincing NCAA team title this year. He has revitalized the careers of several American pro swimmers in his current pro group. There's no question he can develop talent. If he can bring in a good sprint coach and use the Texas draw to improve domestic recruiting, he could build a powerhouse here. Will be interesting to see if he brings over any ASU swimmers and can keep the young talent we currently have. My only reservation is that I'm not sure how this will work with him 'overseeing' the women's program, because Capitani has built a solid program and doesn't deserve a reduced role. And agreed, hopefully we keep Scoggin.
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