2023 TEXAS HALL OF FAME INVITATIONAL
- November 15-18, 2023 (10 am/6 pm CT)
- Austin, Texas
- Lee & Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center
- SCY (25 Yards)
- Prelims: 10 am (CT) / 6 pm (CT)
- Day 1 Finals Recap
- Day 2 Prelims Recap | Day 2 Finals Recap
- Day 3 Prelims Recap | Day 3 Finals Recap
- Day 4 Prelims Recap
- Results
This week at the Texas Invite, Longhorn freshman Will Modglin threw down 20.6/44.4/1:38.9 in the 50/100/200 backstroke, all best times. After his races, Modglin was grateful to finally be using a backstroke wedge on his starts, bemoaning that in they weren’t allowed in high school swimming.
Watch Modglin’s 44.4 100 Back here:
Watch Modglin’s 20.6 50 back leading off the 200 medley relay here:
How much does the wedge help in backstroke? Makes an easier comparison to how much he improved, especially in the 50 and 100 Backstroke.
Obviously he improved a ton in the 200 IM and 200 Backstroke, which makes sense given the increased training yardage he mentioned.
.25 – .5 seconds depending on the person and generally gender. I tested this.
What isn’t said is that his previous best was with a wedge at Winter Juniors.
Eric Myers at Zionsville swim club back in Indiana where he is from did a great job. And an even better job out to his parents for raising this kid with a great head on his shoulders. Would be very interested to know how much taper they did for this meet!
this dude makes a 44.4 look effortless. just mindblowing
Should’ve gone to Cal to make real backstroke gains. 😉
cal gets an army of 45/1:40 (senior year high school times) of backstrokers and hits on 1 out of 5 of them.
Name one that didn’t hit and I’ll name one that does. Let’s see who wins
More upvotes I wanna see this happen.
NAH! The eyes of Texas are upon him — and he seems to be doing fine!
He shoots… and scores! (An obvious joke given your clear dislike towards Cal!)