A little more than a month out from a defense of their 2015 NCAA Championship, the Texas Longhorn men took part in a team relay battle divided by class, with youngsters Townley Haas and Joseph Schooling among the most impressive performers.
According to Texas assistant coach Kris Kubik, the class relays are an annual Longhorn tradition, taking place the day before the team’s final dual meet of the season.
Exciting for Texas fans: the freshman class won both relays on the day, a 200 medley and a 200 free relay. Townley Haas anchored the medley in 18.95 and also led the free relay with a 19.10 split. Also impressive was sophomore Joseph Schooling, who split 19.85 on the fly leg of the medley and 19.08 on the freestyle relay.
The full relay results are below:
200 Medley Relay
| Freshman | Sophomore | Junior | Senior | ||||
| John Shebat | 21.31 | Jon Roberts | 22.65 | Jack Conger | 21.42 | Aaron Gustafson | 22.39 |
| Ryan Harty | 24.09 | Austin Temple | 24.54 | Will Licon | 24.06 | Liam Lockwood | 25.11 |
| Tate Jackson | 20.73 | Joseph Schooling | 19.85 | Will Glass | 20.47 | Matt Ellis | 21.1 |
| Townley Haas | 18.95 | Brett Ringgold | 18.98 | PJ Dunne | 20.28 | John Murray | 19.17 |
| 1:25.08 | 1:26.02 | 1:26.15 | 1:27.77 | ||||
200 Free Relay
| Freshman | Junior | Sophomore | Senior | ||||
| Tate Jackson | 20.08 | Jack Conger | 19.4 | Brett Ringgold | 19.53 | John Murray | 19.6 |
| Townley Haas | 19.10 | Will Licon | 20.35 | Joseph Schooling | 19.08 | Matt Ellis | 19.71 |
| John Shebat | 19.54 | Will Glass | 19.44 | Jon Roberts | 20.44 | Aaron Gustafson | 20.36 |
| Ryan Harty | 19.56 | PJ Dunne | 20.34 | Jared Butler | 20.62 | Ian LeMaistre | 20.5 |
| 1:18.28 | 1:19.53 | 1:19.67 | 1:20.17 | ||||
Check out the video above for full-race footage of both relays, as well as some interesting tidbits from Kubik, head coach Eddie Reese and freshman Ryan Harty. Of special note: Reese talks about an interesting lineup option involving the freshman Haas, and Harty dishes on which trash-talking Longhorn got his comeuppance in the pool.
Video courtesy of SwimSwam’s own Gold Medal Mel Stewart.
Texas could win the Olympics for the US. Eddie is THE MAN
simply amazing…
Shebat — based on his 50 speed I can easily see him into the 44s at NCAAs.
What an embarrassment of riches out of Austin this year.
John Shebat will be a factor at NCAAs. I think he will swim 45/1:40 in the backstrokes and 1:43-1:44 in the 200 IM.
What kind of Mizunos are they wearing, and why not arenas or speedos?
What types of suits were a couple of the guys wearing? Were those Mizunos? I think Cordes wore one in his famous 50.04 but I hadn’t seen them elsewhere until now…
Mizunos are definitely the favorite suit of the current Texas swim team.
Confirmed.
Think if they still had diver Hixon. Won two board and a finaled on platform his freshman year at Texas.
This may be a bit too heavy on the hyperbole before championship swimming this year, but…
I simply have no doubt this is the greatest NCAA team in history.
This version of Eddie & the Cruisers is the bomb.
This is a pretty accurate statement they have potential to have at least 2 A finalists in the mile, 2 A in the 200, 2 A in the 500 which they will most likely win. Same butterfly roster from last year more or less so about 6 A finalists for fly, 3 A finalists in the 200 fly if Smith wants to swim it. 100 backstroke they might be a bit behind but Shebat’s dangerous. 200 back Harty is looking great. 100 Breast good stuff from Temple but may be their weakest after 50 free. But 200 breast guaranteed finalist with Licon. Guaranteed finalist in 200 IM and 400 IM. 100 free Ringgold is looking great. This team will dominate… Read more »