Texas vs Tennessee
- October 24, 2025
- Austin, TX
- SCY (25 Yards)
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Texas junior Erin Gemmell details her summer including dealing with the sickness much of Team USA faced at the 2025 World Championships. Gemmell also details the late lineup change for the US women’s 4×100 free relay. Gemmell has since returned to training at Texas and posted a 1:42.64 in the 200 freestyle last Friday in a dual meet against Tennessee which marked the 7th fastest time in the NCAA this season. The swim marked her 6th time in the 1:42 range and just off her lifetime best 1:42.32 that she swam at the 2025 SEC Championships.
The Longhorns welcomed Nikolett Padar this summer as Padar arrived from Hungary. Padar and Gemmell have raced at the international level already and now are training partners in Austin.
I wonder if Erin Gembel will change her strategy in swimming LCM 200.
So far, she employed fly and die, which worked in domestic/nationals, but it just didn’t work in world championship.
I think on the long run, this worlds experience is going to be very beneficial for all of Team USA who went through it. Like Erin said, nothing will be as bad as that and they all still swam very well considering. It should give them great confidence.
The 4 x 200 FR-R (LCM & SCM) is in flux for the female contingent of USA Swimming and the younger generation needs to step up.
Case in point, Anna Peplowski posted a faster time (1:52.54) in the W 200 FR (SCM) at the Westmont, IL stop of the 2025 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup than Paige Madden’s personal best time (1:52.93).
I don’t think that swim by Peplowski means anything is in flux. Peplowski has been on the last couple big teams for the USA. Also, both Gemmell and Sims went 1:52.5 in 2022. So nothing has changed.
1:42.6 is only seventh in October- just 5 years ago, that time would’ve been 2nd at NCAAs by just 3 tenths.
The event stagnated for awhile. Looking forward to the damn breaking and multiple 1:39 swims in the next 1-3 years.
Erin Gemmel and Claire Weinstein will probably swim 1:39 in the next 2 years.