Texas Execs Swim Medley Relays At 2026 Eddie Reese Showdown

Eddie Reese Showdown

• January 23-24, 2026
• Austin, Texas — Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center
• SCY (25 Yards)
• Full Meet Results on Meet Mobile “Eddie Reese Texas Showdown — Friday PM”
• Session 1 Recap | Session 2 Live Recap

At final evening’s Eddie Reese Showdown, the Texas professional swimmers, together with Leon Marchand and Summer McIntosh, raced males’s and ladies’s medley relays earlier than the ultimate occasion of the meet. The girls swam 3:23.47 and the lads swam 2:59.88.

The girls’s relay was made up of Regan Smith, Anna Elendt,  Summer McIntosh, and Simone Manuel, whereas the lads’s relay was Shaine Casas, Jack Kelly, Leon Marchand, and Chris Guiliano.

A couple of of the swimmers began the meet by signing autographs for swimming followers, together with a number of the different Texas professionals like Lindsay Looney, Luke Hobson, and Carson Foster.

Before the ultimate occasion of the meet, they obtained up and raced one another in medley relays to get the group excited earlier than the 400 free relay.

Shaine Casas and Regan Smith began the relays off on the backstroke legs. Since the warmth was mixed males’s and ladies’s, the occasions received’t formally depend like they usually would for a backstroke leg. Casas swam 44.59 to begin the lads off, seven tenths off his lifetime greatest 43.87 from November of 2020. Smith was 49.32 to the touch in 2nd, an unusual place for her within the leadoff leg of a medley relay.

The breaststroke legs noticed Jack Kelly break up 50.91 for the lads and Anna Elendt break up 57.26 for the ladies as the lads expanded their lead even additional.

Summer McIntosh and Leon Marchand lined up towards one another for the fly, with Marchand splitting 43.68*, almost a second sooner than his lifetime better of 44.66 from 2023. McIntosh was 50.68 for the ladies, a bit beneath half-a-second sooner than her lifetime greatest 51.10 from 2022.

The relays wrapped up with the freestyle, the place Chris Guiliano was 40.70 to the touch in 2:59.88 for the lads and Simone Manuel break up 46.21 on the ladies’s relay for his or her ultimate time of three:23.47.

After the relays concluded, the announcers informed the group that Marchand false-started, which was reportedly very apparent, and the lads have been disqualified making the ladies the true winners.

The motion wrapped up Saturday morning with the ultimate session of the meet between Texas, Ohio State, and Louisville.

Splits courtesy of SwimSwam commenter “newbie”