· Head coach Eddie Reese begins his 37th season with the Longhorns. Under his guidance, Texas has won 10 NCAA titles, registered 11 NCAA runner-up finishes and secured top-three finishes at 28 of 36 NCAA Championship meets.
· Texas has more NCAA titles and NCAA top-two finishes than any other men’s swimming and diving program since Reese’s arrival on the Forty Acres in 1978.
· Texas returns 32 swimmers and divers, including 14 All-Americans, from the 2013-14 squad that placed second at the NCAA Championships and won the program’s 35th consecutive conference title.
· Sophomore diver Mark Anderson earned his first All-America honor last spring in the platform event at the NCAA Championships. He went on to place seventh in that event for the United States last month at the Pan American Festival.
· Junior diver Cory Bowersox notched his second consecutive All-America honor in the one-meter event last spring. The Fairfax, Virginia, native joined teammate Will Chandler to win bronze for the U.S. last May at the FINA Diving Guanajuato Grand Prix.
· Sophomore Jack Conger earned five All-America honors as a freshman and posted top-six individual finishes in the 500 freestyle and the 100 butterfly at the 2014 NCAA Championships.
· Senior Tripp Cooper placed fifth in the 100 butterfly and swam on two All-America relays last season at the NCAA Championships.
· All-America senior Kip Darmody racked up substantial points last season at the NCAA Championships, where he placed third in the 100 backstroke and sixth in the 200 backstroke while competing on five All-America relays.
· Junior Matt Ellis enjoyed a breakthrough summer that ultimately secured him a spot on the U.S. roster for the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in August. The Austin native cracked the world’s top-10 in the 100m butterfly with his mark of 51.73 from the USA Swimming National Championships. Ellis ranks ninth in the world this year while his teammate, freshman Joseph Schooling of Singapore, ranks eighth in the world at 51.69.
· Israeli Olympian Imri Ganiel returns after helping UT’s 400 medley relay to third place at the NCAA Championships.
· Sophomore Will Glass scored as a freshman at the NCAA Championships and landed a seventh-place finish in the 100 butterfly, while junior Aaron Gustafson also produced a breakout swim last March and scored points in the 100 backstroke.
· Junior Sam Lewis scored his first NCAA Championship points as a sophomore in the 500 freestyle before earning All-America honors on the 800 freestyle relay.
· Sophomore Will Licon broke a school record as a freshman and placed fifth in the 400 IM at the NCAA Championships.
· Junior John Murray showed off his sprint versatility at the 2014 NCAA Championships. The San Antonio native split 18.36 seconds – the fastest relay split of the entire meet – on the 200 free relay at the NCAA meet. Murray also took on sprint breaststroke duties on the Longhorns’ 200 medley relay and scored individually in the 50 and 100 freestyle events at the NCAA Championships.
· Clay Youngquist returns for his final season as a member of the 2014-15 USA Swimming National Team. Youngquist scored individually in the 200 freestyle and on the 800 freestyle relay at the NCAA Championships.
