2025 Texas Hall of Fame Invitational
- November 18-21, 2025
- Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center, Austin, TX
- 9:30 am ET swimming prelims/11:30 am diving prelims/5:30 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”
The first night of the 2025 Texas Hall of Fame Invitational featured several historically fast relay splits, but Texas junior Will Modglin had the swim of the night with a 20.00 leadoff leg on the Longhorn men’s 200 medley relay. That time makes Modglin the fastest man in history, and brings us within a whisker of seeing a sub-20 backstroke swim.
Race video courtesy of YouTube user tamuswimming.
While it’s fairly unusual on the men’s side to see all-time fastest performances in the fall, as opposed to the spring championship season, it wasn’t too surprising to see the record fall to Modglin. He came out of high school with a best time of 20.80 and has steadily improved since then. He went 20.49 as a college freshman in 2024, then 20.32 last year, before knocking another three-tenths of a second off his best time tonight.
Record Progression, Men’s 50 Yard Backstroke
- Junya Koga (Club Wolverine), 2014 – 20.35
- Ryan Murphy (Cal), 2016 – 20.20
- Bjorn Seeliger (Cal), 2022 – 20.08
- Aiden Hayes (NC State), 2024 – 20.07
- Will Modglin (Texas), 2025 – 20.00
Modglin currently has the fastest time in the country this season in the 200 back (1:39.41) and the second-fastest time in the 100 back (44.46). ASU’s Adam Chaney, who went 20.19, also under Murphy’s record in the same race as Seeliger, in 2022, owns the fastest time in the nation this season in the 100 back (44.46) and the second-fastest in the 200 back (1:39.59). Modglin is slated to swim the 100 back later this meet, but isn’t scheduled to swim the 200. Chaney should swim at the CSCAA Dual Meet Challenge later this week, where he could challenge Modglin’s brand-new mark in the 50 back.
I’m imagining Kyle Sockwell’s reaction.
Might challenge that 100 back record now that split feels like this is on the same level as 40.00.
Bob in the bottom of the video looks almost like he expected either a sub-20 swim or something around that.
yeah I thought it was interesting to see Will be so hyped after the race and Bob look disappointed. I guess maybe it’s because he was so close to a 19 but a .3 drop in a 50 at this level is insane no matter what
I could see him being worried about the relay start being a bit too risky so Bob could have been shaking his head cuz he thought it was a FS
Damn 1:19 – 2MED is coming. Not saying it’ll be texas but if sub 20 backs start rolling in its a race to crack 1:20
Kos was 19.3 in the fly last year which is 0.8 faster than Peck was and puts them at around 1:20.3.
So if each leg can drop 0.1 from their best and do it at the same time (NCAAs), they’ll have a good shot at 1:19.