The wealthy get richer because the College of Texas males have landed one more elite swimmer to their roster as Chris Guiliano publicizes his switch to the Longhorns from Notre Dame.
Guiliano, 21, led the Preventing Irish to a record-breaking season in 2023-24 as a junior, however within the offseason, it was the lads’s swimming program was suspended for one tutorial yr after an unbiased regulation agency discovered that the majority staff members engaged in playing all through the season.
Previous to the suspension, Guiliano had a breakthrough summer season, qualifying for the U.S. Olympic staff within the males’s 50, 100 and 200 free, turning into the primary American male since Matt Biondi in 1988 to take action in all three.
Guiliano went on to have a profitable Olympic debut, profitable gold within the males’s 4×100 free relay, silver within the males’s 4×200 free relay (prelims) and making a person ultimate within the 100 free, inserting eighth. He was additionally seventeenth within the 50 free and nineteenth within the 200 free.
In early September, Guiliano entered the NCAA switch portal, remaining adamant that he would pursue graduating at Notre Dame if it was doable.
In his asserting his switch to Texas on Wednesday, he reiterated that sentiment, saying there’s a path for him to complete his diploma at UND.
Guiliano has one season of NCAA eligibility remaining. Though he didn’t particularly say he’ll be becoming a member of the Longhorns this season, that’s the expectation given Notre Dame’s suspension will expire come 2025-26.
He’s scheduled to characterize the USA on the 2024 Quick Course World Championships subsequent month in Budapest.
The addition of Guiliano offers the Texas males and ace within the free relays (to not point out individually), as he’s coming off a standout NCAA marketing campaign that included him sweeping the lads’s 50, 100 and 200 free on the ACC Championships.
Guiliano was additionally third within the 200 free, 4th within the 50 free and fifth within the 100 free at NCAAs final season, his first time cracking an NCAA ‘A’ ultimate in his profession after he was ninth within the 200 free and tenth within the 100 free as a sophomore.
Guiliano’s Lifetime Bests (SCY)
- 50 free – 18.43
- 100 free – 40.62
- 200 free – 1:30.36
If Guiliano does be a part of Texas for the second semester in January, he’ll accomplish that alongside Polish backstroker Ksawery Masiuk, who introduced he can be heading to Austin in 2025 to start his collegiate profession in September.
Within the seven months since Bob Bowman was employed because the Director of Swimming and head males’s coach at Texas, the Longhorns have seen an enormous inflow of expertise on their roster, with the likes of Hubert Kos, Rex Maurer, Aaron Shackell and Ben Sampson transferring over, David Johnston getting back from a redshirt season, and the addition of a powerful freshman class led by Cooper Lucas and Kyle Peck.
Now with Guiliano and Masiuk becoming a member of the combo, Texas guarantees to make a major soar up the standings after they completed seventh on the 2024 NCAA Championships, their lowest end since 2005.
Exterior of the NCAA staff’s efficiency, Texas now boasts arguably the perfect coaching group within the nation, with execs Carson Foster, Shaine Casas, Chase Kalisz and Jay Litherland additionally coaching in Austin, to not point out the perfect male swimmer on the planet, Leon Marchand, anticipated to reach in early 2025.
