A Day Inside Texas Swimming | Unfiltered Waters

Katie Hoff Anderson heads to Austin for a full day inside Texas Swimming and Diving, following the Longhorns from a women's morning practice to breakfast, class, the recovery center, the weight room, the athlete dining hall and an afternoon long course set with Bob Bowman's pro group. It's the latest stop in the Unfiltered Waters Day in the Life series, after UVA, Florida and Indiana.

The day starts on deck with the women. Assistant coach Chad Mylin explains how a Wednesday morning sets up that night's stroke practice: drills, secondary strokes, a kick set in socks and a little burst of speed. Katie notices the different energy of an all-women's group, and Campbell Stoll, Audrey Derivaux, Sarah Rodrigues and Piper Enge each share who taught them the most about Texas women's swimming culture.

From there Katie follows the team through the rest of the day. Breakfast with Jillian Cox comes with the story of a second-place trophy that kept getting knocked off a dorm shelf every morning. Then it's a freshman class called Burnout Prevention, and the five modalities in the recovery center: sauna, compression sleeves, hydro massage chairs (described as "a car wash for your body"), red light beds and dry float beds. In the weight room, strength coach Michael Hanson walks through how Texas tests explosiveness off blocks and walls with force plates and lat pulldowns, explains the PR bell, and puts Katie on the bench with a velocity tracker.

The afternoon brings everyone together. Lunch at the Tanc earns Texas the gold medal in Katie's athlete dining hall rankings, ahead of Florida, Indiana and UVA. Then it's dryland with Bob Bowman, followed by a main set of fast 50s with the pro group and the Longhorn men, with Bowman calling splits from the deck. He explains the why behind the set and remembers the day Regan Smith went 24s on her last eight fly 50s in yards.

It ends with Bowman's quote of the day: "Whatever you give your attention to, you become." Whether you swim, coach or just want to see how one of the deepest programs in the country runs a day, this is Texas from the first warmup to the last 50.

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