{"id":603144,"date":"2025-01-11T16:47:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T23:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=603144"},"modified":"2025-01-15T12:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T19:03:14","slug":"chris-guiliano-impresses-in-first-longhorn-appearance-as-texas-dominates-smu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/chris-guiliano-impresses-in-first-longhorn-appearance-as-texas-dominates-smu\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Guiliano Impresses in First Longhorn Appearance as Texas Dominates SMU"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Guiliano Impresses in First Longhorn Appearance as Texas Dominates SMU<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Texas Longhorns opened 2025 in strong fashion against in-state rival SMU, with the women winning 218-76 and the men jumping out to a 237-63 margin. The Texas men’s team, which already features Olympic champion\u00a0Hubert Kos<\/strong> and short course world-record holder\u00a0Luke Hobson<\/strong>, saw the debut of Olympian\u00a0Chris Guiliano<\/strong>, who impressed in the freestyle events.<\/p>\n

The Longhorn men won the 200 medley relay with\u00a0Will Modglin<\/strong>,\u00a0Nate Germonprez<\/strong>,\u00a0Kos and Guiliano clocking 1:22.90. Guiliano anchored in 18.53, and he followed that up by dominating the 50 freestyle in 19.04. Guiliano later scored the win in the 100 free in 41.89, and he posted a 41.18 relay split to conclude the meet.<\/p>\n

Kos blasted a time of 44.94 in the 100 backstroke, and he also crushed the field in the 200 IM, recording a mark of 1:42.81. David Johnston<\/strong> dominated the 1000 free (8:44.94), followed by\u00a0Coby Carrozza<\/strong> winning the 200 free (1:33.67).<\/p>\n

Germonprez topped the 100 breast (52.09), and Cooper Lucas<\/strong> touched out\u00a0Rex Maurer<\/strong> to win the 200 fly by four hundredths, 1:43.96 to 1:44.00. Modglin finished first in the 200 back (1:42.26), and\u00a0Will Scholtz<\/strong> crushed the field in the 200 breast by three-and-a-half seconds, clocking 1:54.33.<\/p>\n

Maurer, who broke the American record in the 500 free in November, won that event in 4:12.12, and\u00a0Garrett Gould<\/strong> took first in the 100 fly (47.16). In diving,\u00a0Luke Forester<\/strong> won 1-meter (397.50) while SMU’s only win came from\u00a0Luke Sitz<\/strong> on the 3-meter board (389.55). Gould, Kos, Hobson and\u00a0Camden Taylor<\/strong> won the 400 free relay in 2:51.07, with Taylor holding off a charging Guiliano down the stretch.<\/p>\n