Texas Repeats in Swim
Texas won back‑to‑back NCAA Men’s Swimming & Diving team titles, sealing the crown with a record‑setting relay on the final night in Atlanta. Coach Bob Bowman’s Longhorns cemented their status as the collegiate swimming powerhouse with the second consecutive team championship. (swimswam.com)(swimswam.com)
Texas put up 445.5 team points to take the title — its 17th NCAA men’s championship — finishing 29.5 points ahead of runner‑up Florida at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta. (swimswam.com)) Hubert Kos led Texas with 57 points after winning both the 100‑ and 200‑yard backstrokes and setting an NCAA record of 1:34.13 in the 200 back. (swimswam.com)) Rex Maurer won the 400‑yard individual medley in 3:32.96, recorded as an American record, and Texas’ 800‑yard freestyle relay opened the meet with a 6:05.82 victory that supplied 40 points. (ncaa.com)) Coach Bob Bowman, in his second season at Texas, has now compiled three straight NCAA head‑coach titles after Arizona State (2024) and Texas (2025, 2026), and he became the first men’s coach to win consecutive national crowns with different schools. (texaslonghorns.com)) Arizona State closed the meet by winning the men’s 400‑yard freestyle relay in 2:42.38, while Texas finished sixth in that race but outscored Florida 105 to 85 on the final day to pull away in the team race. (ncaa.com)) Florida’s Josh Liendo finished as the meet’s top individual scorer with 60 points, finishing ahead of Texas’ Hubert Kos (57 points) in the individual points leaderboard. (swimswam.com)) The University of Texas announced the UT Tower will be lit burnt orange on March 28 to mark the championship celebration. (tower.utexas.edu))
