Texas vs South Carolina
- October 30, 2026
- Columbia, South Carolina
- SCY (25 Yards)
- Full Meet Results
- Team Scores
- Women: Texas 223 — South Carolina 77
- Men: Texas 225 — South Carolina 73
The Texas Longhorns raced South Carolina on Friday, and Texas came out on top in dominant fashion with both teams bolstered by strong performances from their freshmen.
Women’s Recap
The Texas women won every event, including diving including a shared event win with South Carolina in the women’s 200 breaststroke.
They started the meet with a win in the 400 medley relay courtesy of Lillian Nesty (51.29), Angie Coe (1:00.63), Mena Boardman (50.57), and Eva Okaro (46.51) swimming 3:29.00 to finish almost five seconds ahead of their ‘B’ relay’s time of 3:33.93. Campbell Stoll swam breaststroke on the ‘B’ relay, splitting 1:00.36, the fastest split in the field.
Freshman Mena Boardman, who swam the butterfly leg of the medley relay, went on to win two individual events for the Longhorns as well. She opened her individual events with a 52.16 win in the women’s 100 backstroke, finishing about eight hundredths ahead of Sarah Rodrigues who swam 52.24 for 2nd. This was a new best time for Boardman, taking three tenths off the 52.42 mark she set in March.
She went on to win the 100 butterfly as well, stopping the clock in 51.36. This brought her in more than a second ahead of Campbell Stoll‘s 52.72 in 2nd place. This swim was about four tenths off her lifetime best 50.93 from March of 2025.
Boardman also swam on the winning Texas 200 freestyle relay. Eva Okaro led the team off in 22.19. Boardman split 21.78 on the 2nd leg. Erin Gemmell was 21.67 in 3rd, and Lillie Nesty split 21.93 on the anchor leg. The team stopped the clock in 1:27.57 to finish three seconds ahead of the Texas ‘B’.
Boardman was not the only freshman to win a women’s event. Audrey Derivaux set the top time in the 400 IM, stopping the clock in 4:06.56 to come in more than three seconds ahead of teammate Angie Coe‘s 4:09.63. This was a little off her best of 4:01.83 from the Winter Junior Championships East last December, but it is the 5th fastest time in the NCAA this season.
Derivaux also picked up a 2nd place finish in the 1000 freestyle, stopping the clock in 9:34.52, the 8th fastest time in the NCAA this season. She came in about nine seconds behind Jillian Cox‘s 9:25.65 for 1st, which is the 3rd fastest time in the NCAA this season.
Cox also won the 500 freestyle, swimming 4:39.37 to finish about four seconds ahead of Erin Gemmell‘s 4:43.67 in 2nd place.
Sophomore Eva Okaro and senior Angie Coe also picked up multiple individual event wins. Okaro won the 50 freestyle in 22.20 and the 100 free in 47.70. Coe swept the breaststroke events, swimming 1:01.32 in the 100 and 2:10.33 in the 200.
Other Event Winners
South Carolina’s Delaney Franklin tied with Angie Coe for the 200 breaststroke win, also swimming 2:10.33 to pick up their only women’s event win of the meet. Franklin also finished 3rd in the 200 fly (1:58.60) and in the 400 IM (4:11.20).
The Gamecocks also picked up a 2nd place finish with Tori Abruzzo‘s 1:56.77 in the 200 backstroke.
Men’s Recap
The Texas men won all the swimming events at the meet, but they dropped both diving events to South Carolina. They came out on top of the meet 225-73. The Longhorn men also had a few strong freshmen performances and saw the return of Garrett Gould to competition after an injury kept him out of the first few meets of the season.
The Texas men also won both relays. They swept the top two spots in the men’s 400 medley relay with the team of Will Modglin (45.80), Campbell McKean (50.55), Rowan Cox (45.47), and Rafael Fente-Damers (41.63) swimming 3:03.45.
In the 200 freestyle relay, the team of Fente-Damers (19.57), Garrett Gould (19.58), Nate Germonprez (19.37), and Austin Carpenter (19.74) swam 1:18.26 to earn the win over their ‘B’ relay again. Camden Taylor had the top split on the ‘B’ relay with ihs 19.52 on the 2nd leg.
Rowan Cox is a freshman this year, and on top of swimming the 100 fly on the men’s ‘A’ 400 medley relay, he also won the men’s 100 butterfly, stopping the clock in 46.78 to finish about two tenths ahead of senior Logan Walker‘s 46.97 in 2nd place.
Cox also swam the 100 backstroke, finishing 3rd in 47.71 to come in behind Will Modglin‘s 45.96 in 1st and Ksawery Masiuk‘s 47.22 in 2nd place.
Modglin also won the 200 backstroke, swimming 1:42.22 to touch almost a second ahead of Masiuk’s 1:43.37 for runner-up.
Another freshman, Kuzey Tuncelli, won the men’s 1000 freestyle, stopping the clock in 8:45.65, the 2nd fastest time in the country this season.
Tuncelli also swam the 500 free where he finished 4th. Rex Maurer won the event in 4:11.89, finishing almost seven seconds ahead of South Carolina’s Pierre Largeron, who touched in 4:18.34.
Maurer also won the 200 fly in 1:42.50 and the 400 IM in 3:40.99. His 200 fly time currently ranks 8th in the country and his 400 IM time is the top time in the country this season by about three seconds over Mathias Christensen‘s 3:43.93.
Laon Kim was the final freshman event winner for the Longhorns. He set the top time in the 200 freestyle of 1:33.43 to set the 8th fastest time in the country this season. He also picked up a 3rd place finish in the 50 free (20.03) and a 5th place finish in the 500 free (4:25.47).
Sophomore Campbell McKean picked up two individual event wins for the Longhorns, swimming 52.08 in the 100 breaststroke and 1:53.46 in the 200 breaststroke.
Nate Germonprez and Rafael Fente-Damers rounded out the individual event wins for Texas. Germonprez swam 19.66 to win the 50 free and Fente-Damers swam 42.35 to win the 100 freestyle.
South Carolina had a few strong performances, led by senior diver Max Spencer. He took the top spots in both diving events, scoring 348.00 on the 1-meter and 399.45 on the 3-meter.
Up Next
The South Carolina Gamecocks will return to competition on Friday vs Florida State and the Texas Longhorns are off now until the Texas Swimming Invite starting on November 18th.
