Mens Swimming Pre season #1

by SwimTexas on Oct 28, 2007 9:18 AM CDT

I don't know if you have already commented on this or not, but if you have, it might be worth a second mention.

The UT Men's Swimming and Diving Team enters the 2007-2008 Season as the #1 ranked team in the country for officially the ba-Jillianth time since Head Coach Eddie Reese was hired in 1978. In his first 24 years, Coach Reese won 9 National Titles for Texas - a "Bowden-esque" run or better in my opinion. In the last 5 years, however he (And the rest of the country) has run into an Auburn Team for the Ages.

However this year's team looks to have as good a shot as any in recent years to de-thrown the Tigers. This team will be worth following this season. I will do my best to keep an eye on them.

http://www.texassports.com/swimming-...

PS I attended a clinic run by UT Alum, Gold Medalist, and World Record holder Ian Crocker this weekend. He was teaching the local high school kids about dolphin kick under water. He jumped in at the end of the session just for fun and went 44.41 in the 100 Freestyle doing 60% of the race underwater dolphin kick. He set the pool record for the Natatorium. By himself. No warm-up. Pretty amazing.

Hook 'em.

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A name to remember

is Daniel Rohleder... 4 time all american in high school, two time all american in college... He will be dominant this year, and in the next summer olympics. Guaranteed

Time to fly.

by FormerLSBUser on Oct 28, 2007 1:00 PM CDT reply actions

Ahhh ... my favorite UT topic

I can talk UT swimming alright. My first-ever assignment at The Daily Texan was to cover the men's swim and dive team. They went wire-to-wire No. 1 and obliterated the competition at the NCAA meet.

They had four current Olympians and two future Olympians on that team. How good were they? The Texas A&M coach called them "The best college team ever! Better than any Duke basketball team or Florida State football team."

Those were HIS words.

At NCAAs in College Station, First-place Texas beat second-place Stanford by 150 points. That's insane. UT won every relay and set 8 American records that meet.

Some of the guys on that team included: Hansen, Crocker, Dusing, Hannan, Rauch, Dumais and Dumais

"Excuse me while I whip this out."

by FreedomDip on Oct 29, 2007 12:44 PM CDT reply actions