AUSTIN, Texas — Bob Bowman, the longtime schoolmaster of Olympic celebrity Michael Phelps, has been rented to breaking in the swimming program at Texas, the varsity introduced Monday.
Bowman was once up to now Arizona Situation’s schoolmaster and led the Solar Devils to their first nationwide championship latter weekend. He leaves Arizona Situation then 9 years for a powerhouse Longhorns program that were led by means of Eddie Reese for 46 seasons. Beneath Reese, Texas received 15 nationwide championships and was once runner-up 13 instances.
Bowman joins Texas with the newly created identify of director of swimming and diving, pace additionally serving as head males’s schoolmaster. Carol Capitani, the Texas girls’s schoolmaster, led the staff to a 3rd consecutive runner-up end on the NCAA championships.
Bowman was once the longtime schoolmaster for Phelps, essentially the most adorned Olympian in any recreation with 28 medals, 23 of them gold. Bowman was once the U.S. males’s head schoolmaster on the 2016 Olympics and was once an workman in 2004, 2008 and 2012.
