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
Lost in all of the excitement of a lot of fast swimming today was the fact that the Texas men knocked exactly a second off the American Record in the 400 medley relay to cap off Day 3 of the 2025 Texas Hall of Fame Invitational.
Will Modglin led off the Longhorns’ ‘A’ relay with his third sub-44 swim of the day, clocking a 43.78. 100 breast champ Nate Germonprez split 49.91 on breast. Both Modglin and Germonprez were faster than they were on this relay at NCAAs in March, where Modglin led off in 44.37 and Germonprez split 50.49, en route to a 2nd-place finish. Tonight, Garrett Gould split 45.31 on fly, and Camden Taylor anchored in 41.34.
That swim takes exactly one second off the existing American Record, which NC State earlier this year at NCAAs with a 9th-place finish. Before NC State, Cal had owned that record for eight years.
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NC State, 3:01.34 (2025 NCAA Championships, Old Record
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Texas, 3:00.34 (2025 Texas Hall of Fame Invite, New Record)
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Florida, 2:55.66 (fastest all-time, with three non-Americans)
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| Back | Quintin McCarty | 45.57 | Will Modglin | 43.78 | Jonny Marshall | 43.91 |
| Breast | Sam Hoover | 50.86 | Nate Germonprez | 49.91 | Julian Smith | 48.95 |
| Fly | Luke Miller | 44.17 | Garrett Gould | 45.31 | Josh Liendo | 42.12 |
| Free | Jerry Fox | 40.74 | Camden Taylor | 41.34 | Alex Painter | 40.68 |
This event has gotten much faster over the last few years, with the Florida Gators owning the fastest time ever with a 2:55.66 at last season’s SEC championships. But the Gators, like most of the top NCAA teams currently, had a relay lineup that consisted both of American swimmers and international swimmers, so while they were eligible for the NCAA (and U.S. Open) Record, they were ineligible for the American Record, which requires all four swimmers to be currently eligible to represent the USA internationally.
In fact, when NC State set the previous American Record in March, they did so with a 9th-place finish at NCAAs. Texas finished 2nd in that same event (2:58.95), but they had Hubert Kos, who represents Hungary internationally, swimming fly. Kos is not competing collegiately this semester, and sophomore Garrett Gould, who specializes in sprint freestyle, took over fly duties on the medley relay today.
Of the five yards relay contested in the NCAA championship format, the Longhorns now own two American Records (400 medley relay and 800 free relay), Indiana owns one (200 medley relay), and NC State owns the 200 free and the 400 free relay records. None of those also stand as NCAA/U.S. Open Records, as Tennessee owns the 200/400 free relay records, Cal owns the 800 free, and the Florida Gators own the all-time marks in both medley relay records.
Looks like the UF record was set at SECs not NCAAs. The splits were BK – 43.91 BR- 48.95 Fly- 42.12 Free 40.68. That is crazy fast.
I forgot Liendo split 42.12, that’s a freestyle split!!
u know it’s insane when the “worst” legs are a 43 backstroke and 40 freestyle
It’s pretty significant that there’s a 5-second gap between the American record and NCAA record.
:43.26, :48.85, :43.15; :39.93 = 2:55.19. There are plenty of Americans (all these times by athletes active within last year), just not in the same place or time. Coincidence.
I would have liked to see Julian Smith swim some LC, or at least SC Worlds or something.
Given how fast TX’s first two legs are, the five second difference is insane.
I’d like to see a comparison of the American Record and the Florida relay from March.
Added their SEC time, which was actually the fastest ever – is that good?
Really re-emphasizes that the fly leg is the weakness here. 45-splits just aren’t what they used to be…
Hubi should be good for a 43 low/mid split at NCAAs. Still not sure it will be enough to beat a Florida or ASU but they should be in the hunt in this relay come NCAAs
Same for 41 freestyle splits
Love it. Thanks for adding that third column in. That fly leg by Florida is going to be tough to match. Not to mention the 48. breast!
Really sprinters in general. But, Kos returning for the spring semester will help (and then Gould can swim the 100 free, if they decide that’s better).
This relay should be 2-3 seconds better in the spring, though it won’t be an American Record by that point.
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