Torri Huske Scores Third Win at Texas Invite; Baylor Nelson Tops Swift 200 IM<\/p>\n
As usual, the Texas Hall of Fame Invitational has been the site of numerous top-ranked national performances. Throughout the week, the men\u2019s home team has reaffirmed its status as the strong favorite to win a second consecutive national title while the Stanford women, led by superstar\u00a0Torri Huske, have also shown out.<\/p>\n
Huske picked up her third individual win of the meet in the 100 freestyle, putting up a time of 46.15 to win by almost a half-second. Huske was just off her best time of 46.01, which ranks her as the No. 5 performer in history. Second here went to Texas\u2019\u00a0Eva Okaro in 46.61, quicker than any swimmer aside from the now-graduated\u00a0Gretchen Walsh and Huske at last season\u2019s NCAA Championships. Two days after swimming the nation\u2019s fastest time in the 200 free, USC\u2019s Minna Abraham placed third in 47.01.<\/p>\n
Stanford senior Lucy Bell finished first in the 200 IM in 1:52.65, less than two tenths behind the 1:52.47 she swam for sixth place in the event at last season\u2019s NCAA Championships. Bell is poised for a big jump in the event this season with at least half of last season\u2019s national A-final not returning this ever. A trio of Texas Longhorns came in behind Bell, with\u00a0Campbell Chase second (1:53.48),\u00a0Angie Coe third (1:54.18) and\u00a0Campbell Stoll fourth (1:55.66).<\/p>\n
The Texas women scored a surprise win as Stoll upset\u00a0Caroline Bricker for the win in the 200 butterfly. Stoll finished in 1:52.13, improving on the 1:52.29 she swam for seventh place at the 2025 NCAA Championships, while Bricker went 1:53.05 for second. USC\u2019s\u00a0Justina Kozan placed third in 1:54.48.<\/p>\n
This meet has marked a breakout performance for Wisconsin\u2019s\u00a0Maggie Wazenek, who has now secured her place among the best backstrokers in college swimming. In the 200-yard race, Wazenek had never been sub-1:50 entering the day, with a best time of 1:50.62 from the Texas Invite last year, but she clocked 1:49.15 in prelims and 1:48.39 in the final. Wazenek became the 13th-quickest swimmer ever in the event. In Austin, Pitt\u2019s\u00a0Claire Jansen (1:50.47) and Stanford\u2019s\u00a0Natalie Mannion (1:52.01) rounded out the top-three.<\/p>\n
Texas swimmers Baylor Nelson and\u00a0Will Modglin have both posted outstanding weeks thus far in Austin. Nelson entered the all-time top-10 in the men\u2019s 400 IM while Modglin swam the fastest 50 backstroke time ever before breaking the American record in the 100 back. The teammates met in the 200 IM, and Nelson came out on top by less than three tenths, 1:40.29 to 1:40.58. Both were well ahead of any mark posted this season entering the week. Freshman\u00a0Campbell McKean, better known for his achievements in the breaststroke events, took third in 1:41.06, with Texas A&M\u2019s\u00a0Logan Brown fourth (1:41.59) and Longhorns breaststroke standout\u00a0Nate Germonprez fifth (1:41.62).<\/p>\n
Garrett Gould has shown his value as a key relay piece for the Longhorns this week, and he put up a standout individual swim in the 100 free. Gould got the win in 42.02 ahead of Texas A&M\u2019s Ben Sytsma (42.30) and Northwestern\u2019s\u00a0Stuart Seymour (42.37).<\/p>\n
The men\u2019s 200 fly was a rare event with a non-Texas winner as USC\u2019s Krzysztof Chmiewlewski edged out Wisconsin\u2019s\u00a0Dominic Mark Torok for the top spot. Chmielewski joined\u00a0Luca Urlando and\u00a0Ilya Kharun as swimmers to crack 1:40 this season with his time of 1:39.81, while Torok just missed with his 1:40.07 clocking. Texas\u2019\u00a0Cooper Lucas clocked 1:40.40 for third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Torri Huske Scores Third Win at Texas Invite; Baylor Nelson Tops Swift 200 IM As usual, the Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32226,32227,32228,27,29,28,32229],"class_list":["post-60149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-2025-texas-invitational","tag-baylor-nelson","tag-lucy-bell","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-torri-huske"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60149","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=60149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}