Texas Men’s Pentathlon
- September 27, 2024
- Austin, TX
- 25 Yards (SCY)
- Full Results
The Longhorn men—and some of their pro group—dove in for an intrasquad pentathlon on Sept. 27 ahead of their Sam Kendricks Memorial Orange and White Meet on Oct. 3. Each swimmer swam a 50 of each stroke, then a 100 IM to total their overall time. Hubert Kos held the lead after the four 50s, then dropped a 47.33 100 IM to seal the win in an overall time of 2:12.99. Per SwimSwam’s records, Kos’ 100 IM is the fifth-fastest in history.
Fastest Verifiable Men’s 100-yard IM Times
- Shaine Casas, 46.33 (2020)
- Leon Marchand, 46.63 (2022)
- Matt Grevers, 47.06 (2016)
- Chris Staka, 47.23 (2020)
- Hubert Kos, 47.33 (2024)
- Michael Andrew, 47.34 (2018)
- Grant House, 47.42 (2022)
- Simon Burnett, 47.44 (2011)
- Michael Phelps, 47.47 (2016)
*verifying times for an unofficial event is difficult, so if you know of a swim we missed, please let us know in the comments.
Kos built up a lead in the pentathlon by swimming the fastest 50 butterfly and 50 backstroke times, hitting 20.35/20.89. He was the only swimmer sub-21 on the backstroke, with Texas pro Shaine Casas going 21.30. Casas, who owns the fastest 100 IM on record, also had the second-fastest 50 fly time, joining Kos sub-21 with a 20.73.
Nate Germonprez topped the field in the breaststroke, swimming a 24.12. His fellow sophomore Will Scholtz was second in 24.50, and Kos didn’t cede too much ground with a 24.76 for 3rd in the event.
Casas swam 19.53 to lead the way in the 50 freestyle, touching .13 seconds ahead of Kos. Freshman Garrett Gould swam 19.88 for 3rd. That time is faster than Gould’s registered personal best of 19.92, swum at YMCA Nationals in April.
Heading into the 100 IM, Kos had built a sizable lead over his competition with a quadrathlon time of 1:25.66. Germonprez was running second with a 1:27.23, just five hundredths ahead of Casas.
Kos was untouchable in the 100 IM and it powered him to first place in the penathlon with a final time of 2:12.99. He was the only one to break 48 seconds in the 100 IM, but several swimmers did crack the 49-second mark as Germonprez logged 48.02, Casas 48.26, and Rex Maurer 48.99. Germonprez’s 100 IM secured him second place (2:15.25). Casas and Carson Foster, Paris Olympians in the 200 IM, grabbed 3rd and 4th. Casas finished .29 seconds behind Germonprez (2:15.54) with Foster further back at 2:18.50.
Sophomore Will Modglin took 6th (2:18.99), sandwiched between newcomers to the Longhorns’ NCAA roster Maurer (2:18.81) and Ben Sampson (2:19.65). Maurer transferred from Stanford for his sophomore year, while Sampson is using his fifth year of eligibility with the Longhorns after winning multiple D2 national titles during his time at Colorado Mesa.
Camden Taylor (2:19.96), Gould (2:20.23), and Alec Filipovic (2:21.23) rounded out the top 10.
Watch the fastest heat of each event below, courtesy of Texas Men’s Swimming and Diving on YouTube. Videos by heat are available on their channel.
Pentathlon Top 10
| Rank | Swimmer | 50 fly | 50 back | 50 breast | 50 free | 100 IM | Overall Time |
| 1 | Hubert Kos | 20.35 | 20.89 | 24.76 | 19.66 | 47.33 | 2:12.99 |
| 2 | Nate Germonprez | 21.23 | 21.54 | 24.12 | 20.34 | 48.02 | 2:15.25 |
| 3 | Shaine Casas | 20.73 | 21.30 | 25.72 | 19.53 | 48.26 | 2:15.54 |
| 4 | Carson Foster | 21.75 | 21.95 | 25.46 | 20.42 | 48.92 | 2:18.50 |
| 5 | Rex Maurer | 21.53 | 21.57 | 26.40 | 20.32 | 48.99 | 2:18.81 |
| 6 | Will Modglin | 21.53 | 21.44 | 26.43 | 20.20 | 49.39 | 2:18.99 |
| 7 | Ben Sampson | 21.82 | 21.71 | 25.85 | 20.57 | 49.70 | 2:19.65 |
| 8 | Camden Taylor | 21.69 | 22.85 | 25.49 | 20.13 | 49.80 | 2:19.96 |
| 9 | Garrett Gould | 21.08 | 21.96 | 26.52 | 19.88 | 50.79 | 2:20.23 |
| 10 | Alec Filipovic | 21.78 | 22.43 | 26.47 | 20.43 | 50.12 | 2:21.23 |
On the all-time list, Will Licon swam a 47.37 at the Arizona v Texas dual meet in January 2017, which should put him at 7th.
Hey there, couldn’t find that result in the official results file from the meet (https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/sidearm.nextgen.sites/texassports_com/documents/2018/1/27/texas_arizona_results.pdf), in SWIMS, or anywhere else. Results don’t actually show him swimming at that meet.
I’m sure it happened, given your relationship to Will, but would love to capture that result if I can – do you have any links or screenshots? Couldn’t find it on MM either.
I’ll send you a race video and try to find the meet results.
Did you just put it on Youtube? For some reason, I got recommended a video of the 47.37 swim by Will.
Yessir!
Hey Braden, did some digging and found the results for the 100 IM. It was the 2nd day of the dual meet.
https://admin.texaslonghorns.com/documents/2017/1/28/saturday_results.pdf
Ahhhh good find. Thanks.
I wonder if that 27.5 from Luke Hobson was an all-out effort.
Surprised Anthony Grimm isn’t at the top of this list. He was born for this event.
You mean the 100 IM? I think he went 47.7 at 2019 NCSA’s before he got DQ’d. If he kept swimming, I think eventually he’d have been the fastest
Relays will be very solid!
Top 8 IMs were top 8 2im add ups
That 20.89 in the 50 back is a PB for Hubi, which is notable because he actually swam the 50 back many times last season on relays.
Hubert was ON at this pentathlon. 20.3, 20.8, 19.6 and a 24.7 in his weak stroke. I can’t wait to see Orange/White on Thursday
Is that meet a big deal for Texas? I’m not really familiar.
It’s been a fairly big deal in years past, but I’m mostly excited to see how the new guys swim. I guess like in a first look type of way.
Oh yeah that’s gonna be interesting.
There are meet records that I think Hubert can take down, like Ryan Harty’s 100 back record, Joe Schooling’s 100 fly record, and Carson’s 200 IM record (the 100’s are like 45’s and the 200 IM is a 1:42)
Those are decently fast times for meet records which I guess answers my question. All within reach for Hubert – what I’m even more curious about is how long will it take him to break a school record – those are much tougher nuts to crack.
Looking at mid season last year, Hubert went 1:39.26 in the 200 IM. That’s under John’s school record. If he’s anywhere near the shape he was in last fall, he’s breaking a couple come invite. The scary part is he looks like he’s faster, I mean 20.3 in a 50 fly right now is absurd.
Would love to see how these results stack up against Longhorns of the past. I remember Danny Krueger and Joe Schooling had some impressive aggregates.
Oh boy here comes bobthebuilderrocks with some delusional takes about the Texas program and gassing up potential relays
Dude, it took me way too long to see I’ve been practically having a conversation with myself in the comments, haha.