Texas held its annual Eddie Reese Invite last Friday. The annual event, which is sort of like a glorified practice, pits swimmers in races at off-distance events – 300 strokes, 2000 frees, etc., in what assistant coach Wyatt Collins says is an effort to “get the swimmers out of their comfort zones.”
In past years, swimmers have put up some pretty insane, if hard-to-contextualize, swims, including Clark Smith in 2015 splitting his 2000 free at 8:52/8:51.
This year’s event was closed to media, and no times have leaked out, but the Texas Athletics Department and Collins posted a video with a few highlight clips and some early-season thoughts on this year’s team.
Among the tidbits: Collins says that Olympic champion Joseph Schooling has been pushing himself this fall – something he admits that he didn’t to last year.
Schooling didn’t win any individual NCAA event titles last season as a junior, though he was a part of national-record setting 200 medley, 400 medley, and 400 free relays. As both a freshman and a sophomore, he won the 100 and 200 butterflies, including in NCAA and U.S. Open Records at the 2016 NCAA Championships.
Texas will resume formal competition this coming weekend in its annual tri meet against Florida and Indiana in Gainseville.
If I lived in the area, I would pay to be a spectator.
I never thought I’d say this but
WE NEED MORE BOBO GIGI
odds that dressel swims an off event – 2 im/2 free/1 breast just to keep him mentally strong in the fly or free?
Schooling will exhibition and win every competed event.
Let me guess, Schooling broke the world record in practice going 49.5, but in a championship meet months from now, he will either have a “stomach bug” or he will “miss the turn,” causing him to lose to Dressel for a third time in a row
Absurd comment. If you have nothing to comment, pls don’t comment. This makes u childish..
Only absurd and childish, if you haven’t been following Schooling lately.
He never claimed to go some unbelievable time before worlds. He said 50.7 and at worlds he went 50.8 so it’s not unreasonable to assume that he probably did go 50.7 at a practice. As many have commented he didn’t have a big base to taper off of last season so it wouldn’t be unreasonable for him to only have a certain peak time (50.7-8) for the season.
Yes he did claim to have a virus at NCAA’s but he made no excuses about his worlds swim, NCAA’s last year just wasn’t his meet, he had a fast 100 and didn’t have a base for a 200 fly and if he had a stomach bug it would come and… Read more »
If he really did do a 50.7 in practice, when he was unshaved, said he was at the beginning of taper, and said it felt “monotonous,” then he completely choked at worlds to go slower. Can’t have it both ways.
Seems like you have some weird vendetta/obsession to trash Schooling every chance you get? Give it a rest man, or at least try and be more respectful.
Good point. Certainly, no commenters would be guilty of obsessively and ridiculously over-hyping him.
How do you overhype an Olympic Champion?
As I said, schooling says some questionable things and can be overconfident at times. Does not mean he is a bad person or a bad swimmer. I’m pretty sure he realized how that looked to say 50.7 was “monotonous” and then go 50.8 at worlds but he seems more motivated and if anything it will make for better swims in the future.
maybe he did choke at worlds. doesnt mean he will again, everyone has bad races. im excited to see how it all unfolds. im a huge dressel fan but i think itll be a close one if schooling is putting work in again
No doubt Crooked Donald has the most annoying comment in Swimswam. Article related to Schooling, he will be there..
Schooling vs Dressel this weekend? hell yeah
If Dressel swims fast-ish this weekend (Schooling will), he’s going to be incredible come spring. Not really a prelude to the real thing, because Dressel will have significant fatigue from his insane weight room work, much more so than Golden Boy.
Another slow news day
Agreed
It wasn’t too long ago that we couldn’t even get daily swimming news like this…. swimswam has done an indcredible job of making swimming a more relevant and newsworthy sport.
I’m personally getting tired of these ungrateful comments of “why is this news” or “its a Slow news day”. You literally have dozens of articles to choose to comment on every week and this is your comment??
I want a refund!!! 🙂
Wonder why they didn’t talk about a few times this year. Usually, they mention a couple of key times and show the scoreboard for a few races on the video. It’s either the times were slow, or more likely, that the bad experience of the Schooling “practice swim” last summer told them to cool it.
How do you think Texas will swim this weekend?
I believe Texas will win.
Well, Eddie usually rests them a very tiny bit and suits them up for the Eddie Invite to show them they can go fast, so coming off of that, I’m guessing they’ll swim pretty fast. Florida, on the other hand, will be crushed with heavy training, especially Dressel in the weight room, so I’m guessing they’ll be comparatively slow.
I still think you could see the first 18 at a college dual meet this weekend. I knew it would happen at some point this year, just not in October!
If so, he’ll be 17.9 or better at NCAAs