2025 Texas Hall of Fame Invitational
- November 18-21, 2025
- Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center, Austin, TX
- 11:00 am ET swimming prelims/11:30 am diving prelims/7:00 pm ET finals (Tuesday exception: 5 pm ET relay timed finals)
- Championship Format
- SCY
- Live Results
- Results on Meet Mobile as “Texas Hall of Fame Swimming Invite”
- Live Recaps
Two years ago, the story of the Texas men was the lack of a breaststroker. At the 2024 NCAA Championships, they scored 4 breaststroke points – all from Jake Foster, who then graduated. On Wednesday, they had four guys under 51 seconds at the Texas Hall of Fame Invitational, including the best ever mid-season time from Nate Germonprez.
Cuatro Caballeros:
- Nate Germonprez, Junior – 49.71
- Campbell McKean, Freshman – 50.37
- Will Modglin, Junior – 50.91
- Will Scholtz, Junior – 50.95
Germonprez now becomes the 4th-best performer in history (at any meet), and is only the second man to go sub-50 seconds in this event outside of conference and NCAA Championship season. The last was Florida’s Julian Smith, who clocked a 49.98 at last season’s Georgia Invite.
The swim also broke Germonprez’s own Texas record of 50.14.
Top 10 All-Time, Men’s 100 SCY Breaststroke
- Julian Smith, Florida – 49.51 (2025 SECs)
- Liam Bell, Cal – 49.53 (2024 NCAAs)
- Ian Finnerty, Indiana – 49.69 (2018 NCAAs)
- Nate Germonprez, Texas – 49.71 (2025 Texas HOF Invitational)
- Max McHugh, Minnesota – 49.90 (2022 NCAAs)
- Finn Brooks, Indiana – 49.94 (2025 Big Tens)
- Caeleb Dressel, Florida – 50.03 (2018 SECs)
- Kevin Cordes, Arizona – 50.04 (2014 NCAAs)
- Denis Petrashov, Louisville – 50.27 (2025 NCAAs)
- Carsten Vissering, USC – 50.30 (2019 NCAAs)
Beyond the pure impressiveness of the achievement (only the top 11 in the NCAA finals last year were under 51 seconds) is the evolution of the Texas breaststroke group.
Two years ago, this was the team’s objective weakness. They then hired a coach in Bob Bowman who amid one of the best coaching resumes ever is really thin in the breaststrokes.
Germonprez focused on freestyle events as a freshman under Eddie Reese before shifting to more of a breaststroke emphasis last season in his first year training under Bowman.
A leap of faith from Campbell McKean, Team USA’s breakout star of the summer of 2025, to commit to the Longhorns anyway appears to have paid off. Just halfway through his freshman season, McKean is already the second-best freshman 100 breaststroker in history. The only one faster is Max McHugh, who swam 50.30 at his debut NCAA Championship meet in 2019 (part of an electric breaststroking class that included Reece Whitley and Zane Backes).
McKean and McHugh are the only two American-born freshmen who have been under 51; Cal’s Yamato Okadome and Florida’s Aleksas Savickas have also done it (albeit at older-than-traditional freshman age).
With a single race on Wednesday, I think the Longhorns removed any lingering doubt about who was going to win the 2025 NCAA Men’s Swimming & Diving team championship. While they definitely have some stronger events (100 breast) than others (100 fly), the development of sophomore Garrett Gould has helped fill the need in the sprint group, and they’re deep enough in some events (100 back) where they can use swimmers in secondary events (Hubert Kos on the fly leg) to really shore up any gaps.
It’s onward to March for Texas, where it would take a true disaster scenario to see anything other than a second straight trophy plunge.
There aren’t going to be any surprises when it comes to scores. For the love of God, bring back the B final.
McKean HS 51.3 yards/ 58.9 lcm. Now 50.3 yards/ ????? Lcm. Watch out world!
“They then hired a coach in Bob Bowman who amid one of the best coaching resumes ever is really thin in the breaststrokes.”
I’m 99% sure Bowman coached a really good breast stroker early in his career in Napa – but I’ll be damned if I can remember his name. Eric something? I think he made an Olympic team.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Wunderlich
Pretty sure he left Bob before the Olympics though. Him and Ian lull (not sure on last name)
I am annoyed that Texas is swimming well.
Ok can we just talk about Will for one second. I don’t know if this has ever been done before, that man is a 43 100 back and just put down a sub 51 100 Brest. WHAT THE F#%$
It hasn’t.
There aren’t that many that have gone 43 in the back, so it’s pretty easy to see.
I’m sure I’m missing some, but off the top of my head the following have gone 43 in the backstroke:
Kos, Marshall, Urlando, Murphy, Stewart, Chaney, Stokowski, Burns, Farris, Modglin, Casas.
And none of them were great breaststrokers.
Lasco as well, but he certainly didn’t go 51 in breast.
PTL!
Well, it has taken 2 years of hard work (longer than I thought it would) but finally, the swim world can appreciate the work, dedication, and winning style of a premiere recruit from 2023 coming to Texas. Germonprez was already high in my book as a high schooler, but now this moment seems to seal his ascendancy into real contender ranks looking toward LA28. Bravo!
Thank good Bob switched him to breaststroke after Eddie had chucked him into his “everyone must be a 200 freestyler” machine.
They are certainly starting this meet remarkably well.
McKean posted the race video
https://youtu.be/2O4wjiCiAj0?si=wTRRBMW8OrWqJw8T