By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
The College of Texas males will carry 30 swimmers into the 2025-2026 collegiate swimming & diving season, regardless of an SEC-mandated cap of twenty-two swimmers for males’s packages starting subsequent season in mild of the Home settlement.
See the complete roster right here (a few of the lessons are usually not appropriate).
Head coach Bob Bowman confirmed that the SEC can even enable Designated Pupil Athletes referred to within the settlement, particularly those that have been reduce from rosters on account of the Home vs. NCAA roster-trimming.
Whereas the Home settlement requires roster to be decreased to 30 athletes for males and 30 athletes for ladies, the SEC independently additional decreased rosters to 22 on the lads’s facet. After probing from the decide within the Home settlement, the 2 sides agreed to a carveout that might enable athletes who have been reduce from rosters to be exempt from the brand new roster limits till they exhausted their eligibility, even when they transferred to a brand new college.
Whereas DSA designations are usually not public, this does enable for a little bit of a loophole. Specifically, a coach may select to ‘reduce’ even star athletes with a wink, after which carry these athletes again as Designated Pupil Athletes. Whereas it’s unclear which of Texas’ 30-man roster are Designated Pupil Athletes, by definition, some portion of their 22 returning athletes have to be logged as DSAs.
DSAs have been named on July 5 on the discretion of every college. After the settlement, the switch portal was opened for DSAs to get a second probability at transferring.
The upcoming Texas roster contains Alec Enyeart, who didn’t compete for the Longhorns final season. After not racing from April 2024 till December 2024, after which competing again house in his native Kansas Metropolis, Enyeart had an enormous bounceback efficiency on the USA Swimming Nationwide Championships.
There he completed sixth within the 400 free in a greatest time of three:48.46, incomes a spot on the World College Video games crew. He completed seventh in Germany at that meet. Enyeart final competed for Texas on the 2024 Large 12 Championships throughout Eddie Reese’s final season as a head coach. He raced on the 2023 NCAA Championships within the 500 free and 1650 free, ending thirteenth within the latter to attain 4 factors.
The Texas males gained the 2025 NCAA Swimming & Diving championship and return extra factors from that roster than another crew within the nation for subsequent season.
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