Eddie Reese Showdown
- January 23-24, 2026
- Austin, Texas — Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center
- SCY (25 Yards)
- Full Meet Results on Meet Mobile “Eddie Reese Texas Showdown — Friday PM”
- Session 1 Recap | Session 2 Live Recap
At last night’s Eddie Reese Showdown, the Texas pro swimmers, including Leon Marchand and Summer McIntosh, raced men’s and women’s medley relays before the final event of the meet. The women swam 3:23.47 and the men swam 2:59.88.
The women’s relay was made up of Regan Smith, Anna Elendt, Summer McIntosh, and Simone Manuel, while the men’s relay was Shaine Casas, Jack Kelly, Leon Marchand, and Chris Guiliano.
A few of the swimmers started the meet by signing autographs for swimming fans, along with some of the other Texas pros like Lindsay Looney, Luke Hobson, and Carson Foster.
via SwimSwam Instagram Stories/Anya Pelshaw
via SwimSwam Instagram Stories/Anya Pelshaw
Before the final event of the meet, they got up and raced each other in medley relays to get the crowd excited before the 400 free relay.
Shaine Casas and Regan Smith started the relays off on the backstroke legs. Since the heat was combined men’s and women’s, the times won’t officially count like they normally would for a backstroke leg. Casas swam 44.59 to start the men off, seven tenths off his lifetime best 43.87 from November of 2020. Smith was 49.32 to touch in 2nd, an uncommon position for her in the leadoff leg of a medley relay.
The breaststroke legs saw Jack Kelly split 50.91 for the men and Anna Elendt split 57.26 for the women as the men expanded their lead even further.
Summer McIntosh and Leon Marchand lined up against each other for the fly, with Marchand splitting 43.68*, nearly a second faster than his lifetime best of 44.66 from 2023. McIntosh was 50.68 for the women, a little under half-a-second faster than her lifetime best 51.10 from 2022.
The relays wrapped up with the freestyle, where Chris Guiliano was 40.70 to touch in 2:59.88 for the men and Simone Manuel split 46.21 on the women’s relay for their final time of 3:23.47.
After the relays concluded, the announcers told the crowd that Marchand false-started, which was reportedly very obvious, and the men were disqualified making the women the real winners.
The action wrapped up Saturday morning with the final session of the meet between Texas, Ohio State, and Louisville.
Splits courtesy of SwimSwam commenter “newbie”
Why is there an asterisk next to Marchand’s fly split?
…he DQed
But it says all the Men DQed the others don’t have this next to their split?
Marchand was the one who false started so the asterisk next to his split is to indicate that it is faster because he left early
Omg swimswam article mention?!?! Hopefully I did the math right on the splits haha because the announcer only read off the total times after each leg
Huge upset for the women
That autograph line is insane lol