Congrat's SEC Swimming & Diving Champions - Texas Men and Women!

Who's gonna finish in 2nd?

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This is the first year since Reese retired correct?

Yeah very likely our dominance continues

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I don't watch it or follow it other than reading an article here or there.. but I've read that Bob Bowman has an incredible team, especially the guys.

Eddie Reese's run will never be matched.

45 Consecutive Conference Championship's - Men's
(1980-2024)

15 National Championship's - Men's

37 Conference Championship's - Women's

9 National Championship's - Women's

That's just ridiculous.

I was hoping to give you frickos a run for your money, but we have sucked thus far this season. Lost to FSU for the first time in men's and women's ever.

Women

Texas- 677
Tennessee- 381
Florida- 369
Georgia- 322.5
South Carolina- 273
Texas A&M- 268
LSU- 248
Alabama- 236
Auburn- 180.5
Missouri- 177
Kentucky- 163
Arkansas- 135
Vanderbilt- 86

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Its nuts, I wonder if anything else has matched it?

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Google John McDonnell at Arkansas track.

I don't know exactly how this event is scored, but this is a good example of why Texas is so hard to beat.

Florida finished 1st - let's say 8 points

Texas finished 2nd, 3rd, 7th & 8th which is 16 points, double of Florida's
Points = 7 + 6 + 2 + 1 = 16 points

This may not be the exact scoring, but it's something like this..

You get 9 points for first place, then its 7-6-5-4-3-2-1

Relays are doubled.

You are right - Texas is just racking up points in the middle. That's how championships are won. Win the relays + 2-3 scorers in most events and you are hard to beat.

The whole dad of a recruited swimmer thing has been interesting:

Three SEC teams have no swimming: State, Ole Miss, Oklahoma
Two SEC teams just have women: Arkansas, Vanderbilt

There is really no mid-major D1 swimming in the SEC footprint - Arkansas-Little Rock is the only team.

There are just a handful of D2 programs: The aforementioned Ouachita, Montevallo, Henderson State, Delta State, West Florida

The SAA sponsors swimming at the D3 level: Rhodes, Sewannee, Millsaps, Centre, etc.

There are a couple of NAIA programs: Loyola NO and William Carey and one JUCO program in Meridian CC

So someone like my daughter who is AA/AAA has limits on whers she can look. SEC swimmers are AAAA with a few AAA with lots of internationals. D2 programs in the South are able to land AAA swimmers because of the lack of mid-major D1s. There's a huge difference in the funding levels of D3 proframs - Centre has a $50 million facility and Millsaps compete at a 50 year old pool with a temporary cover.

The NAIA schools look international first, so the team cultures are sometimes complicated. So you have really good swimmers that don't end up swimming in college. Going to the West Coast, Midwest or Northeast is an option for some, but you are swimming for a low funded program.

Valparaiso, for example, recruited my older daughter. When we went for a visit, they had flyers all over campus trying to recruit anyone with HS swim experience to join the team, no matter how good they were. They had >35 second 50 free swimmers on roster. That wouldn't have made state championships for 10 year olds.

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You get 9 points for first place, then its 7-6-5-4-3-2-1

Relays are doubled.

You are right - Texas is just racking up points in the middle. That's how championships are won. Win the relays + 2-3 scorers in most events and you are hard to beat.

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Just an observation, but it looks like that more than just the Top 8 score points:

From Swim-Swam, 2025 SEC S&D Championships

Maybe this scoring is just for the Conference Championship?

Event 10 Men 500 Yard Freestyle

Texas got 7 places out of 24 (1, 6, 9,11,13,16,18)

Place - Name - Year - School - Prelims - Finals - Points
1 Maurer, Rex SO Texas 4:11.27 4:07.09PA 32
2 Koski, Tomas S SO UGA 4:09.92 4:08.25PA 28
3 Magahey, Jake M 5Y UGA 4:10.01 4:08.61PA 27
4 Hawke, Charlie SR Alabama-SE 4:10.95 4:09.75PA 26
5 Mitchell, Jake 5Y FLOR-FL 4:11.49 4:10.72 B 25
6 Johnston, David SR Texas 4:10.44 4:10.74 B 24
7 Mathias, Mason SR Auburn-SE 4:11.03 4:15.05 B 23
8 Linscheer, Giov JR FLOR-FL 4:11.03 4:16.30 B 22
9 Carrozza, Coby GS Texas 4:11.65 4:10.70 B 20
10 Hick, Carson J SO Kentucky-KY 4:11.85 4:10.89 B 17
11 Hobson, Luke A SR Texas 4:11.68 4:12.24 B 16
12 Lekic, Jovan SO LSU-LA 4:12.26 4:12.59 B 15
13 Huckabay, Jacks JR Texas 4:14.81 4:13.06 B 14
14 Brown, Eric G JR FLOR-FL 4:14.86 4:13.66 B 13
15 Bonson, Michael GS Auburn-SE 4:14.18 4:17.51 B 12
16 Haskal, Manning JR Texas 4:12.69 4:18.87 B 11
17 Lindholm, Oskar SR FLOR-FL 4:15.05 4:13.47 B 9
18 Lucas, Cooper FR Texas 4:16.13 4:13.77 B 7
19 Sandidge, Levi JR Kentucky-KY 4:16.11 4:15.39 B 6
20 Powe, Sam P JR UGA 4:16.22 4:15.47 B 5
21 Dickey, Trey SR Texas A&M-GU 4:17.28 4:18.10 B 4
22 Corey, Luke T FR FLOR-FL 4:17.66 4:18.42 B 3
23 Fry, Connor C SO South Carolina-S 4:17.47 4:20.50 B 2
24 Davis, Grant M SR Auburn-SE 4:18.24 4:21.25 B 1