2025 EDDIE REESE SHOWDOWN
- January 24-25, 2025
- Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center — Austin, Texas
- 25 Yards (SCY)
- Meet Info
- Live Results, also available on MeetMobile as “Eddie Reese Texas Showdown”
- Friday Morning Live Recap
- Friday Night Livestream
- Live Recap Session 2
Arizona State showed out at the Eddie Reese Showdown, winning numerous individual events and sweeping the men’s relays. First year head coach Herbie Behm was pleased with his teams performance, noting they also had a handful of new NCAA qualifiers.
A nice and deserving article about Coach Behm. ASU is fortunate to have such an amazing person at the helm of the program. While not a fan of ASU, it is good to recognize excellence across our sport and conferences.
Riding success of Bowman until it peters out. They rested a lot too.
This season has already disproven this theory…
How’s MA developing? What is his event schedule looking like for LCM Worlds trials? Anything besides 50s and 100BR?
The best training would be to simulate the NCAA Championships, heats in the morning, finals in the evening for at least three of the four days. None of this preordained bull crap.
Yes. They should actually simulate NCAAs for 4 days every single week so that when they get to late March, they’re really super duper ready.
We know relay names guy has never been to real school.
Actually….
I glad that ASU did not fall off with Bowman leaving. and appear to have a very healthy program moving forward. 15 years ago this was a team that was cut. I have no connection to ASU but I love their story and hope it can be an example for ADs around the country.
It usually takes 1-2 years after a good coach leaves to see if the new coach can continue at the same level. It seems pretty clear that Herbie is still doing well because many kids are still swimming well if not best times.
It does seem to show how much he was involved in the teams success last year. Some asst coaches have more to do with a team’s success than others, and it’s pretty clear that he was a big part of their success last year.
Kharun choosing to stay with him when he easily could have gone to Texas was a pretty big vote of confidence
Kharun is a very loyal guy.Unusual in these times.Good for him..I,m old and impressed.
From all accounts, Kharun is a very strange/unique cat and he probably needs to be with a Herbie who has a bit more capacity to focus on one superstar. Bob has numerous Olympic medallists to manage, with one of them being the GOAT. It was a smart decision from Kharun and his people. The worry is: is Kharun swimming well off of Bowman’s last year’s training? Everyone in swimming knows the training from last year dictates your current form. Is Herbie doing too much sprint with him?
I agree that jury is out on Herbie until 2 seasons after Bowman. But for now, he’s doing a great job as a first year HC.
Bowman is still focused on Phelps?
Pretty sure ‘buckets’ is referencing a more modern GOAT; after his ASU takeoff into Paris, use of the term GOAT no longer speaks of Phelps but rather of Leon.
do you know what that acronym stands for? specifically the A and T?
Behm and ASU will be irrelevant in 3 years when the bowman influence is completely out of the system
An interesting prediction. . . . please keep us posted on the decline — or further rise. .. .
ASU Sun Devil men’s performance in the relays was incredible!
I suspect that the larger story is the total dominance of the Longhorns this season in all of their dual/tri/etc. meets. They are set up very well, I think, for NCAA championships next month.
Man Texas fans are insufferable lol. There has been plenty of Swimswam real estate devoted to the Longhorns and their accomplishments this season that you can go goon to. This is a story about a rookie head coach who is doing a great job with a somewhat awkward hand he was dealt and I’m happy the team is succeeding.
For guys like Kulow it made sense to stay since they were clearly flourishing under Herbie but it took cojones for Kharun to stay when his ceiling is multiple Olympic golds and maybe LCM WRs and his departing coach developed the butterfly GOAT. The butterflies are going to be barnburners at NCAAs.
The last time I checked, the article directly referenced a Longhorn swim meet, ergo, comments from Longhorn fans. Friend, deal with it. We UT fans are everywhere and we are agents of a foreign power in Austin working for world dominance in swimming!
I hate Texas fans so much
Almost as insufferable as Cal fans tbh
So, to be clear, you hate Cal fans most. Are Texas fans the second most hated group in your eyes? What is your top 5? Asking for a friend.
I’m brave enough to ask for myself. Any Andrew lore is bound to be interesting.
May I suggest that ‘ranking hate” is not a good look?
The funny thing is all of the the Andrew comments from a couple years ago praising Texas
That was because Eddie was my favorite coach all time and Schooling/Conger/Licon were my favorite trio of swimmers ever on the same team
Unfortunately those days of developing American athletes at Texas are long gone
Which tracks perfectly with your statement that American born Kyle Peck, who has dropped 2 seconds in the 100 fly since arriving at Texas, would swim slower at NCAA’s
Carry on
Ah, that famous American Joseph Schooling
Cesar Cielo, Jordan crooks, bjorn seelinger, vin Lanza, Leon Marchand …..
this is fun!
some of you need to pull your heads out. This isn’t new 😅😅
He may have been born elsewhere, but from at least 2009 he was developed in Florida and then Texas.
Ouch! Not nice. . . .
We love that you hate us 🙂
When you start out wanting to agree with Riley that this article was not about Texas and we didn’t need to try and make it so, and then you see that Andrew hates us less than Cal and feel insulted. I want us to be at the top of Andrew’s hate list.
I try not to “hate” anyone, but speaking of insufferable. . . . .