Future Longhorn breaking world records!

[Rocky P]

She is enrolling this fall at Texas but she is already beasting out there with 3 world records this week!  

https://www.espn.com/olympics/swimming/story/_/id/45497458/summer-mcintosh-adds-400-im-week-world-record-haul

[blisssm]

Not clear yet if she will compete for Texas or go Pro

[Bobby Burton]

Wow!

[Born Burnt Orange]

7 hours ago, blisssm said:

Not clear yet if she will compete for Texas or go Pro

How do you go “pro” in swimming?  The Olympics are the pinnacle of swimming.  I can’t imagine her coming to Texas for any reason but to swim.  🤷 

[Dallas Horns Fan]

She talks about moving to Austin to train under Bob Bowman....around the 6 minute mark.

 

[HookemDTX]

9 hours ago, blisssm said:

Not clear yet if she will compete for Texas or go Pro

She's 100% going to Texas to train under Bowman and says nothing will stop that.

[ElCafetero]

With how prolific our swim and dive programs are, we should start OnTexas Swimming 

[blisssm]

Some swimmers do forgo collegiate competition and turn pro or never compete in college at all. Carson Foster is a recent example who could have been part of our NCAA Championship team last year but wasn't because he turned pro. The best example of someone who turned pro as a teen and never competed in college is Michael Andrew..

https://blog.myswimpro.com/2021/01/29/how-much-money-olympic-swimmers-really-make/

 

 

[Lupton Pittman]

10 hours ago, HookemDTX said:

She's 100% going to Texas to train under Bowman and says nothing will stop that.

Moving to Austin and training with Bob Bowman doesn't necessarily mean she's joining the UT swimming team. I haven't seen anything saying she's joining the collegiate team.

Edited 7 hours ago by Lupton Pittman

[Rocky P]

17 minutes ago, Lupton Pittman said:

Moving to Austin and training with Bob Bowman doesn't necessarily mean she's joining the UT swimming team. I haven't seen anything saying she's joining the collegiate team.

i read further into it and you are correct.  She is training in Austin but with Bob Bowman's pro team and not part of the Longhorn team.  😞

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[hookem1]

Correct, she is not expected to attend school. She’ll purely train with Longhorn Aquatics like other elite pros/olympians Shaine Casas, Simone Manuel, Regan Smith, Leon Marchand etc.