2025 Longhorn Aquatics Elite Invite
Could 14-16, 2025
Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swim Heart, Austin, Texas
Lengthy Course Meters (50 meters)
Stay Outcomes
The first preliminary session of the 2025 Longhorn Aquatics Elite Invite simply wrapped up in Austin, that includes 4 occasions for each males and ladies: the 100 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, 200 butterfly, and 400 freestyle.
The session included some sturdy swims, that includes lots of Group USA’s high stars alongside worldwide abilities—most notably Leon Marchand and Hubert Kos, each of whom practice in Austin beneath Bob Bowman.
In the ladies’s 100 free, 2016 Olympic champion Simone Manuel stamped her authority on the area with the solely sub-54 swim of the morning, clocking a time of 53.80. She owns a season greatest of 53.23 from the Westmont Professional Swim again in early March, and as we speak’s prelim effort undercut her most latest outing at the Fort Lauderdale Professional Collection two weeks in the past, the place she logged a 53.99 for sixth.
Manuel opened this morning in a swift 25.72, earlier than closing in 28.08—splitting that suggests she has extra to give on the again half tonight and may probably problem her season greatest. She stays the American report holder in the occasion thanks to her 52.04 from the 2019 World Championships, the place she claimed her second world title in the occasion.
Olympic relay silver medalist Erin Gemmell, a sophomore at Texas, was the solely different swimmer beneath 55 seconds, notching a 54.91. It was a strong prelim swim that places her inside 0.78 of her lifetime greatest of 54.13.
In the males’s race, Shaine Casas and Chris Guiliano have been the clear headliners, every posting sub-49 efforts. Casas led the manner in 48.64, simply forward of Guiliano’s 48.70.
Casas, probably the most versatile male swimmer on Group USA, owns a season better of 48.31, set on the similar Westmont Professional Swim Collection meet as Manuel. He additionally posted a time of 48.47 to win at the Fort Lauderdale cease two weeks in the past. With a private greatest of 48.23, he may problem that mark tonight—or, if not, maybe at the World Championship Trials in three weeks.
Guiliano was proper behind him in Fort Lauderdale, recording a season-best 48.49 for 2nd. The reigning U.S. Olympic Trials champion within the occasion, he owns a private better of 47.25. In Paris, he captured a pair of relay medals—gold in the 4×100 free and silver in the 4×200 free—and positioned eighth individually in the 100 free with a 47.98. He entered rarefied air final summer season as the primary U.S. male since Matt Biondi in 1988 to qualify to race the 50, 100, and 200 free occasions on the Olympic Video games.
