\t\t\t\t\t2026 Sam Kendricks Dust Off Your Boots Invitational<\/p>\n
September 25, 2026 While the eyes of the college swimming fandom turned to the College Swimming League this weekend, The University of Texas Longhorns, including the defending national champion men\u2019s team, kicked their season off with the Sam Kendricks Dust Off Your Boots Invitational.<\/p>\n Freshman\u00a0Laon Kim<\/a>, a Canadian wunderkind making his collegiate debut at the meet, won a pair of individual events to kick off his career. First he won the 200 free in 1:35.01, placing ahead of Texas post-grads and Olympians Chris Guiliano<\/a> (1:35.58) and\u00a0Luke Hobson<\/a> (1:36.74).<\/p>\n He then won the 100 free in 43.44, beating out sophomore teammate Rafael Fente-Damers (43.79), and again the postgrads Guiliano (43.81) and Hobson (44.89).<\/p>\n Kim added a 3rd place finish in the 100 fly (48.66) and anchored the winning 400 free relay with a 42.78 split to wrap up his debut.<\/p>\n The meet won\u2019t count for official NCAA results with post-grads being allowed to compete, but is still a successful test in Kim\u2019s first yards meet.<\/p>\n Among the other highlights on the men\u2019s side were the breaststroke battles between the program\u2019s incumbents Campbell McKean<\/a>, and\u00a0Nate Germonprez<\/a>, and All-American transfer Luka Mladenovic<\/a>, who arrived from the University of Michigan this season<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the 100, Campbell won in 53.20, followed by Mladenovic (53.38) and Germonprez (54.39).<\/p>\n In the 200, Mladenovic came out on top in 1:57.82, followed by McKean in 1:57.88. No other Longhorn swam faster than two minutes.<\/p>\n Other Highlight Swims on the Men\u2019s Side:<\/p>\n Post-grad\u00a0Jack Wilkening<\/a>, who in the spring finished his collegiate career at Michigan, won the 100 back in 46.75 \u2013 half-a-second ahead of the 2026 NCAA Champion Hubert Kos<\/a>, also in the camp of the post-grads. Kos dominated the 200 back in 1:43.76 ahead of another post-grad\u00a0Jack Aikins<\/a> (1:49.67). In the women\u2019s meet, another Austin newcomer put on a show. Freshman\u00a0Audrey Derivaux<\/a>, who graduated high school early to arrive at Texas this fall, won the 200 fly in 1:55.91 and the 200 back in 1:54.41.<\/p>\n She also split 23.68 on the butterfly leg of the runner-up 200 medley relay. That means she outsplit that relays\u2019 incumbent leg\u00a0Campbell Stoll<\/a>, who split 23.78.<\/p>\n Those two will spend a lot of time training together this season: Stoll is the defending NCAA Champion in the 200 fly, though she didn\u2019t swim it at this meet.<\/p>\n Also new to that butterfly group is\u00a0Mena Boardman<\/a>, who won the 100 fly on Friday in 53.11.<\/p>\n Piper Enge<\/a>, who finished 5th in the 100 breaststroke at NCAAs last year, won the 100 breaststroke on Friday in 1:00.28 and the 200 in 2:15.07.<\/p>\n Enge started off the season fast at last year\u2019s intrasquad as well, where they swam 59.82 in the 100.<\/p>\n The Longhorns flexed their depth in the 200 free, with a trio of 1:45s from undergrads. Erin Gemmell<\/a> won in 1:45.36,\u00a0Lillian Nesty<\/a> was 2nd in 1:45.85, and\u00a0Nikolett Padar<\/a> finished 3rd in 1:45.89.<\/p>\n Texas next races on October 9 in a tri meet against Indiana and Northwestern in Bloomington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 Sam Kendricks Dust Off Your Boots Invitational September 25, 2026 Lee & Joe Jamail Texas Swim Center,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[154405,58097,50761,50885,50762,58108,104089,104090,154406,154407,99678,50898,53930,58116,115746,60858,60859,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-448070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-audrey-derivaux","tag-campbell-mckean","tag-campbell-stoll","tag-chris-guiliano","tag-erin-gemmell","tag-hubert-kos","tag-jack-aikins","tag-jack-wilkening","tag-laon-kim","tag-lillian-nesty","tag-luka-mladenovic","tag-luke-hobson","tag-mena-boardman","tag-nate-germonprez","tag-nikolett-padar","tag-piper-enge","tag-rafael-fente-damers","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448070","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=448070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLee & Joe Jamail Texas Swim Center, Austin, Texas
\n25 yards (Short Course Yards), Intrasquad
\nMeet Results<\/a> (PDF)<\/p>\n
\nTexas\u2019 sprint questions still linger \u2013 none of their varsity men swam under 20 seconds in the 50 free. Guiliano won the event in 19.85, followed by Fente-Damers in 20.08.<\/p>\n