Reported by Lauren Neidigh.
TEXAS VS. AUBURN
- Results
- Hosted by Texas
- Monday, January 8th
- 25 Yards
- Dual Meet Format
FINAL TEAM SCORES:
- MEN: Texas 160, Auburn 140
- WOMEN: Texas 175, Auburn 117
The Auburn Tigers hit the road for a dual meet against the Texas Longhorns on Monday afternoon. The Longhorn women remained undefeated, winning by nearly 60 points. On the men’s side, Texas picked up their 2nd dual meet victory of the season as they edged out Auburn by 20 points.
In the backstrokes, Auburn’s Hugo Gonzalez and Texas’ Ryan Harty battled it out. Harty took a narrow front-half lead in the 100 back, but he ended up tying Gonzalez for the win there as they touched simultaneously in 47.85 at the finish. They returned for the 200 back, with Gonzalez taking it out in 50.38 to establish his lead and winning in 1:42.98 to Harty’s 1:44.06.
Harty is going to be one to watch. His swims at NCAAs last year were insane, and though he hasn’t produced anything incredible yet, it was the same case last year, and we know Eddie pushes his swimmers HARD. Him and Katz are going to be a force to be reconned with come march.
I think you might be confused, Harty didn’t swim at NCAA’s last year, he red shirted because of an injury. Everything else you said I agree with
I somehow fused Shebat and Harty into the same person, Harty is still impressive though. he Texas backstroke group is still insane, and I honestly think Shebat, Katz, and Harty can go 1-2-3 in the 200 back in march.
I’m super impressed with Madisyn Cox doing them all IM. A girl busting out 5 sub-35 sec 50s breast in a row after just having done 250 fly and 250 back? Damn girl. Get it.
I might be mistaken…but this is similar to a set Jack Simon used to give to Joe Hudepohl…except Jack had him go from a DIVE on each one!!!!
That’s insane.
Are the 50s all out and LCM? 20×50 on 35 scy doesn’t seem too challenging
Yes it is SC, and I don’t think you realize how hard that set is, 35 is very fast interval
Dude, it’s basically a a 1000 Fly or IM. That’s challenging no matter who you are.
Keep in mind it’s fly.
you’re not trying to hold 33s…
Okay well 20×100 on 1:30 free is also hard if you are trying to hold 46s – so thanks for the input, caleb.
Are you serious? They’re trying to hold as fast as they can the entire time. They’ll probably start out getting close to 10 seconds rest for the first couple repeats but it gets harder with each consecutive repeat due to the fast turn around. It’s 1000 fly on 1:10 per 100 base butterfly. It’s about as far as you can get from “not too challenging”.
Yes I’m serious.. Schooling goes 1:37 in 2fly. 1:10 base fly shouldn’t be challenging for swimmers of his caliber. Give that set to age groupers and they could finish it.
Dang. I wish I coached high school swimmers that are as fast as your age groupers.
I think maybe you’re underestimating the amount of effort it takes to go 1:37 in the 200 fly…
I clearly challenged the difficulty of a 20×50 set, not the difficulty of a 1:37 2fly – re-read my comment before you post;)
I think you missed my point.
Yes, he can swim one 200 fly at 1:37. But putting the maximum effort into a 1:37 200 fly leaves you dead. He can barely get out of the pool. I think subscribing that he can turn around and do 4 more 200 flys on very little rest and have it be “easy” is underselling the amount of effort he had to put into the 1:37 200 fly. When these guys get out of the pool after 1:37 200 fly, they can barely walk.
Here’s a different way to look at it: outside of the real special guys like Schooling, the fastest swimmers are going 20s for their 50 flys at NCAAs (from a… Read more »
swammer is clearly trolling. I don’t know a single age group swimmer that could finish that set.
You’re just trolling, right?
A one rep max is not the same as an endurance based set. I don’t think many age groupers could do this set at all except for the elite recruits. I honestly don’t think the average age group swimmer could do this set as freestyle most of the time
Omg even in freestyle this set is tough as a nail
I’m positive I couldn’t do it. Ever.
First, even guys like Schooling were probably not holding faster than 27… the non-fliers were probably holding 30. 1000 yards of fly in under 12 minutes is hard, no matter who you are. Even for guys with a ridiculous aerobic capacity like the Texas guys, 5-8 seconds isn’t a lot of rest.
Keep in mind, they do this once a year during Christmas training, which is typically the time when coaches beat the hell out of their swimmers. It must be pretty challenging.
Sven is about right. I did that set every year from 1990 to 1999 with the Texas guys and most of us were just barely making it. But to be honest to average around 29’s to 31’s with good technique on all 20 is pretty darn good.