Produced by Coleman Hodges.
Reported by Lauren Neidigh.
The meet wasn’t a perfect one for the Texas Longhorns, and the scoring total was short of being completely maxed out, but the Longhorns were chasing titles and records, and in that quest only one team ever has been more successful.
At the meet’s conclusion, the Texas men walked away with 9 event titles out of 21 events, scoring 541.5 points total. The only team in history with more event titles were the 2001 Longhorns: a team that included Nate Dusing, Brendan Hansen Ian Crocker, Jamie Rauch, Scott Goldblatt, and elite diver Troy Dumais, among others.
The record-run puts them one behind USC with 121 event championships for the fourth-most in NCAA history; as well as with the Michigan Wolverines for the most official NCAA titles in NCAA history. All 12 of those titles have been won under Eddie Reese, which puts him one behind Richard Quick for the most in history by a single head coach across genders, and the most ever in men’s swimming history.
The runners-up from Cal have now placed in the top two at NCAAs each of the last 7 years.
Congratulations Coach to you, your team and the school.
Congrats to Coach Reese!! However, there should be clarification that Eddie Reese and Richard Quick perhaps have the most in history by a single head coach across genders for NCAA Division I swimming, but not in the most ever in NCAA swimming history.
Coach Jim Steen (Kenyon College) retired with 50 NCAA championship titles (29 for men, 21 for women).
http://athletics.kenyon.edu/news/2015/5/5/MSWIM_0505152747.aspx
As 50 championships is a high achievement, we are talking D3 champs with Kenyon.
Eddie Reese is such a great guy.
Really insightful ans persuasive remarks about day by day performance and correlation to rest. Day 3 had Harty, Shebat, Joe, Jack, Haas, Will, Brett, and maybe more doing PRs. Even Clark was much better than on Thursday.
Poor Mel
“The sport picks great individuals… Except maybe Mel.”
All that sincerity, and then a wisecrack on the end. The guy is a treasure.
Conger could not have looked less happy for his teammate
Two points: 1) he lost; (2) it’s hard to look happy at the end of a 200 fly (even though you’re happy it’s over).
wow. he spoke from the heart. particularly impressed with his modesty and compliments to the sport of swimming as a whole. classy.