{"id":626643,"date":"2025-11-18T19:04:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=626643"},"modified":"2025-11-19T05:20:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:20:54","slug":"will-modglin-splits-20-00-50-backstroke-torri-huske-shines-on-first-day-of-texas-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/will-modglin-splits-20-00-50-backstroke-torri-huske-shines-on-first-day-of-texas-invitational\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Modglin Splits Record 20.00 50 Backstroke; Torri Huske Shines on First Day of Texas Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will Modglin Splits 20.00 50 Backstroke, Torri Huske Shines on First Day of Texas Invitational<\/strong><\/p>\n

As college invitational season kicked off Tuesday evening,\u00a0Will Modglin<\/strong> of the Texas Longhorns provided the first stunning performance of the week. Tasked with leading off his team’s 200 medley relay at the Texas Invitational, just as he did on the way to an NCAA title last March, Modglin touched in 20.00 to record the fastest 50 backstroke performance ever.<\/p>\n

That time was seven hundredths faster than NC State’s Aiden Hayes<\/strong> clocked in 2024 (20.07) and puts Modglin on the precipice of becoming the first man ever under 19. The Texas junior is coming off a breakout summer in which he earned silver in the 100-meter backstroke at the World University Games<\/a> and secured his spot on the senior-level U.S. team for next year’s Pan Pacific Championships. Now, Modglin is continuing to thrive as a central player for a Texas team aiming for back-to-back national titles.<\/p>\n

His followed up that record-setting backstroke sprint with a fine medley time.\u00a0Nate Germonprez<\/strong> went 22.59 on breaststroke, 0.24 quicker than he went on the way to the national title last year, and Kyle Peck<\/strong> and Garrett Gould<\/strong> completed the quartet. The final time was 1:21.11, less than a second behind the Longhorns’ winning mark from the 2025 NCAAs<\/a>. The Texas “B” team, featuring Campbell McKean<\/strong> going even faster on breaststroke at 22.51, was second in 1:23.81, and Texas A&M placed third (1:24.44).<\/p>\n

The Longhorn men then dominated the 800 free relay by almost five seconds.\u00a0Rex Maurer<\/strong>, the only swimmer back off a team that took second at last year’s NCAAs in American-record time, led off in 1:32.87, and that was surprisingly the slowest time of all four Longhorns.\u00a0Camden Taylor<\/strong> (1:31.49),\u00a0Baylor Nelson<\/strong> (1:31.67) and\u00a0Jacob Wimberly<\/strong> (1:31.63) all went 1:31s on the way to a final mark of 6:07.66. USC took second in 6:12.57, with\u00a0Krzysztof Chmielewski<\/strong> splitting 1:31.67, and Northwestern (6:16.48) rounded out the top-three.<\/p>\n

In the only individual men’s race of the day, Texas’ Alec Enyeart<\/strong> grabbed first in the 1650 free in 14:53.38, just ahead of freshman teammate Aiden Hammer<\/strong> (14:53.58), with Wisconsin’s\u00a0Yoav Romano<\/strong> third (14:54.42) and\u00a0Manning Haskal<\/strong> of the Longhorns also breaking 15:00 (14:59.05).<\/p>\n