2025 Eddie Reese Showdown
- January 24-25, 2025
- Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center — Austin, Texas
- 25 Yards (SCY)
- Meet Info
- Live Results (not yet updated for correct meet), available on MeetMobile
- Friday Night Livestream
After scorching a monster 4:30.68 500 Free in November, Jillian Cox seemingly has not missed a beat, throwing down a 4:31.9 this morning at the 2025 Eddie Reese Showdown. Cox has been training with the Texas men every day for the last couple of months, switching between being coached by Bob Bowman and Erik Posegay.
This highlights one advantage of Texas Swimming and Diving now technically being a combined team. Even though most practices are single-gendered, any athlete can now be dispersed where they best fit in the training system. For Cox, training with the men seems to be working well.
If only Kathleen Hersey was at Texas now – it’d be no problem if she swam with the men’s team!
Interesting. Any of the other women’s team members training primarily with the men?
would assume all the women who took a large step forward this year — sticklen, campbells, coe, hurst, cox (butterfly, im, mid distance / distance free groups — notice a pattern?)
Sticklen has been super elite for years.
agreed! but she clearly appears to be on a different gear this year
Their was just a pretty big piece in the other swimming website about Sticklen’s training and it was a quite detailed outline from Mitch. I’m sure there are others training mostly with the men, but I wouldn’t just make assumptions based on who you think is succeeding more. Posegay had a great track record with distance women at UW and Cox is fast enough that I doubt they have to adjust intervals often to accommodate her. There’s others you listed where that wouldn’t be the case.
thats fair! i didnt mean to erase mitch and carols contributions — i actually think cc and bb are a very complementary duo. my point was more so that the womens program is performing at a different level this year and i think recent changes in their training system played a role in that, which mitch recognized in his q&a that was paired with that piece
They always swim well in season. They now have Cox who was really fast prior to Texas. Let’s see how much faster they go at NCAAs. Swimming fast in season has never been a problem for the Texas women.
i dont disagree — but theyre swimming even faster in season this year!
in that q&a mitch actually admitted that last year they overcomplicated things in an effort to satisfy everyones specific individual needs which then likely made it more difficult to orchestrate their end of season tapers — a level of honestly i find very refreshing and augurs future progress!
Funny.
Just Hurst
love that she loves to race! excited to see her race Bella and Katie at the NCAAs!
throw in peplowski, roghair, and the uga women and its going to be wild