{"id":266894,"date":"2026-04-26T09:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266894\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:56:16","slug":"sec-finalist-evan-bailey-of-texas-enters-ncaa-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266894\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Finalist Evan Bailey Of Texas Enters NCAA Transfer Portal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas freshman Evan Bailey<\/a> has entered the NCAA transfer portal. Bailey arrived at Texas this spring from Ireland and has three years of eligibility remaining.<\/p>\n

Bailey competed in four meets for the Longhorns this season. He had a strong showing at the SEC Championships where he went lifetime bests in all of his events. Bailey scored a total of 32 individual points making him the 17th highest scorer.<\/p>\n

His highest finish came in the 500 free as he swam a 4:14.94 for 10th. He also was 12th in the 200 free in a 1:32.80 and 27th in the 100 free (43.00).\u00a0 Bailey joins Alexey Glivinsky<\/a> who also entered the transfer portal<\/a> from Texas this week. Glivinsky arrived with Bailey for the spring semester. Glivinsky scored 21 individual points at SECs but qualified for NCAAs.<\/p>\n

Bailey most recently competed at the Irish Open where he swam a 48.94 in the long course meters 100 free for a lifetime best and a win in the process. He also swam to a win in the 200 free with a 1:47.81. He has a lifetime best 1:46.66 in the 200 free, a time that sits as co-national record holder for Ireland.<\/p>\n

In addition to Bailey and Glivinsky, David Johnston<\/a> entered the portal when it first opened. Johnston has announced his transfer to Florida. Texas will welcome transfer Luka Mladenovic<\/a> from Michigan. Mladenovic was an NCAA \u2018A\u2019 finalist in both breaststroke events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas freshman Evan Bailey has entered the NCAA transfer portal. Bailey arrived at Texas this spring from Ireland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99676,99677,61902,99678,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-266894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-alexey-glivinsky","tag-david-johnston","tag-evan-bailey","tag-luka-mladenovic","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}