﻿{"id":609807,"date":"2025-04-12T09:22:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T16:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=609807"},"modified":"2025-04-12T13:53:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T20:53:39","slug":"baylor-nelson-transferring-to-texas-for-senior-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/baylor-nelson-transferring-to-texas-for-senior-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor Nelson Transferring to Texas for Senior Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Baylor Nelson Transferring to Texas for Senior Season<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Texas men&#8217;s swim team will be losing many key pieces from the squad that recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/texas-captures-16th-national-title-behind-hubert-kos-bob-bowman-and-reassembled-longhorns-roster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">captured an NCAA title<\/a>, with\u00a0<strong>Luke Hobson<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Chris Guiliano<\/strong> among those now out of eligibility. But the push for a second consecutive title in 2025-26 received a boost with the commitment of\u00a0<strong>Baylor Nelson<\/strong> to spend his senior season with the program.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson announced on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DIUINsLRqIT\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> that he is transferring from in-state rival Texas A&amp;M. He wrote, &#8220;Thank you, Texas A&amp;M for the amazing opportunities, experiences, and friendships I\u2019ve made over the past three years. I\u2019m grateful to have learned what being an Aggie truly means. I will always have a special place in my heart for Aggieland. With that being said, I\u2019m thankful for the guidance God has shown me and I\u2019m excited for a new opportunity to be able to use my senior year of eligibility at the University of Texas! 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It was the third consecutive season that Nelson has reached at least one national A-final, topping out with a third-place result in the 400 IM in 2024. He swept the individual medley events at the SEC Championships as a freshman and sophomore, and although he swam close to his best times this season, the degree of difficulty of racing in the SEC was ratcheted up with the arrival of Texas and swimmers such as\u00a0<strong>Hubert Kos<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Rex Maurer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Those swimmers will now be Nelson&#8217;s teammates as he aims to take further steps in his career under the guidance of Longhorns head coach\u00a0<strong>Bob Bowman<\/strong>. Nelson will surely be looking to return to international competition as well; he previously represented the U.S. in the 800 free relay at the 2023 World Championships, earning a silver medal after handling a leg on the relay in prelims. At last year&#8217;s Olympic Trials, he reached the semifinals in two events but ended up 14th in the 200 IM and 16th in the 200 free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baylor Nelson Transferring to Texas for Senior Season The Texas men&#8217;s swim team will be losing many key pieces from the squad that recently captured an NCAA title, with\u00a0Luke Hobson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":608766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[126539,46364],"class_list":["post-609807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-college","tag-baylor-nelson","tag-sec-swimming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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