Longhorns sweep Big 12 Men’s Swimming and Diving of the Year awards

IRVING, Texas — The NCAA Champion University of Texas Men’s Swimming and Diving application recorded a thoroughly clean sweep of the 2020-21 Significant twelve Swimming and Diving of the 12 months awards, the Significant twelve Conference business declared Friday. For the UT males, it marked the seventh consecutive sweep of the awards and fifteenth sweep in application history. The awards are voted on by the league’s head coaches.

Junior Drew Kibler was named Significant twelve Men’s Swimmer of the 12 months, and freshman Carson Foster garnered Significant twelve Men’s Newcomer of the 12 months accolades. Senior Jordan Windle captured the Significant twelve Men’s Diver of the 12 months honor for the fourth consecutive season. Eddie Reese was tabbed the Significant twelve Men’s Swimming Mentor of the 12 months, and Matt Scoggin acquired Significant twelve Men’s Diving Mentor of the 12 months recognition.

Kibler was a member of the profitable 800-lawn freestyle relay even though recording next-area finishes in the 100-lawn freestyle and two hundred-lawn freestyle at the NCAA Championship meet up with. He also helped the four hundred-lawn freestyle relay make a fourth-area complete and put fifth in the five hundred-lawn freestyle.

Foster earlier claimed Men’s Newcomer of the Meet up with honors at the Significant twelve Championship. He joined Kibler on the profitable 800-lawn freestyle relay and finished next in the four hundred-lawn individual medley, fourth in the two hundred-lawn individual medley and sixth in the two hundred-lawn backstroke at the NCAA Championship meet up with.

Windle previously was honored as the Men’s Diver of the Meet up with at the Significant twelve Championship and the Division I Men’s Diver of the 12 months by the Faculty Swimming and Diving Coaches Affiliation of The usa (CSCAA). He is the first individual in league history to acquire four Significant twelve Diver of the 12 months accolades. Windle gained the NCAA individual title on the 1-meter board, put next on the three-meter springboard and finished fourth on system at the NCAA Championship meet up with.

Reese earned the Significant twelve Men’s Swimming Mentor of the 12 months honor for the 19th time in his vocation. He led the Longhorns to their forty second-consecutive conference title and an NCAA-most effective fifteenth countrywide championship this season. Reese also claimed Division I Men’s Swimming Mentor of the 12 months honors by the CSCAA.

Scoggin swept the Significant twelve Men’s and Women’s Diving Mentor of the 12 months accolades. He earlier was tabbed the Division I Men’s Diving Mentor of the 12 months by the CSCAA. UT’s team of four divers at the NCAA Championship meet up with registered 1 individual title, four top rated-5 finishes and contributed a mixed eighty three factors to the team standings.