{"id":604107,"date":"2025-01-31T21:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T04:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=604107"},"modified":"2025-01-31T21:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T04:40:18","slug":"texas-defeats-texas-am-behind-big-days-from-hubert-kos-emma-sticklen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/texas-defeats-texas-am-behind-big-days-from-hubert-kos-emma-sticklen\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Defeats Texas A&M Behind Big Days From Hubert Kos, Emma Sticklen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas Defeats Texas A&M Behind Big Days From Hubert Kos, Emma Sticklen<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Texas Longhorns and Texas A&M Aggies spent 12 seasons competing in different conferences, but the rivalry never ceased in swimming. Now, with both teams in the Southeastern Conference, Texas continued its recent domination of the series. The Longhorn men dominated this dual meet by a score of 218.5-80.5 while the women won 197-102.<\/p>\n

The Longhorns’\u00a0Will Modglin<\/strong>,\u00a0Nate Germonprez<\/strong>,\u00a0Hubert Kos<\/strong> and\u00a0Chris Guiliao<\/strong> each posted swift splits in a dominant 400 medley relay win, with the team clocking 3:02.20. Modglin led off in 45.20, followed by Germonprez going 51.01 on breaststroke, Kos splitting 44.47 on butterfly and Guiliano coming home in 41.52.\u00a0Luke Hobson<\/strong> clocked 41.92 on the B-relay for that Texas group to take second.<\/p>\n

Hobson would earn an individual win in the 200 free, with the fastest swimmer ever in the event coming in at 1:32.18, and Kos was first in the 100 backstroke in 44.87. The Hungarian Olympic gold medalist went on to have a huge day, clocking 45.34 for the win in the 100 fly before concluding with a top time of 1:41.97 in the 200 IM. Guiliano’s lone individual win came in the 100 free in 41.97.<\/p>\n

David Johnston<\/strong> and\u00a0Rex Maurer<\/strong> put on a show in the 1000 freestyle before Johnston held off Maurer by a half-second, 8:40.74 to 8:41.23. Johnston would later dominate the 500 free in a time of 4:14.21. Will Scholtz<\/strong> took first in the 100 breaststroke (52.46), followed by\u00a0Ryan Branon<\/strong> winning the 200 butterfly (1:42.46).<\/p>\n

Maurer got to the wall first in the 200 back (1:40.79) before Scholtz won again in the 200 breast (1:52.69). Nicholas Harris<\/strong> finished atop 1-meter diving (379.35), and Guiliano, Kyle Peck<\/strong>, Modglin and Hobson finished off the meet with a time of 1:16.37 to win the 200 free relay.<\/p>\n

Texas A&M’s\u00a0Ben Scholl<\/strong> captured first in the 50 free in 19.17, two hundredths ahead of Guiliano. The Aggies also got a first-place finish from\u00a0Allen Bottego<\/strong> in 3-meter diving (405.98).<\/p>\n