By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
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Bob Bowman had his fingerprints all over the medal table at the 2025 World Championships–his swimmers combined to win 10 individual medals in Singapore, and though four of those were won by international swimmers, he also put eight athletes on the American roster for Worlds.
That success, coupled with the fact that his swimmers established new world records in four events during the year, earns him U.S. Coach of the Year honors, not even factoring in the incredible year he’s had in the NCAA, having won Men’s College Coach of the Year honors back in March.
After Bowman guided Leon Marchand to a historic performance at the Paris Olympics, Marchand had plenty of downtime and spent the early part of the year training in Australia, rejoining Bowman’s group at Texas following the conclusion of the NCAA season.
Despite that short run-up to Singapore, Marchand blew everyone away when he shattered the longstanding world record in the men’s 200 IM, erasing Ryan Lochte‘s 14-year-old mark of 1:54.00 by 1.31 seconds in 1:52.69, which some believe is the greatest performance of all-time.
After that swim in the semis, Marchand produced the second-fastest swim ever, 1:53.68, en route to gold in the final, though the highlight of the 200 IM was the fact that Bowman’s swimmers swept the podium.
American Shaine Casas set a massive best time of 1:54.30 to win silver and climb to #4 all-time, while Hungarian Hubert Kos rounded out the podium in 1:55.34, also hitting a big PB to crack the top 10 in history.
Marchand also won gold in the 400 IM (4:04.73) in Singapore to sweep the men’s medley events for the third time at the World Championships and the fourth straight time at a major international meet (not including the lightly-attended 2024 Worlds), and provided a quick 58.44 split on the French men’s medley relay that won silver and broke the national record. He also hit a career-best 200 free split of 1:44.34 on France’s 4×200 free relay that finished 6th.
Like Marchand, Kos was one of the best male swimmers of 2025, despite the fact that he only won one individual title at Worlds.
Kos won the men’s 200 back in Singapore in an exciting battle with South African Pieter Coetze, clocking 1:53.19 to establish a new European Record in what was the seventh-fastest performance ever and the quickest in a decade. The swim also marked a massive improvement for Kos, whose previous best stood at 1:54.14 from 2023.
In addition to his medals in the 200 back and 200 IM, Kos also set new Hungarian Records in the 50 back (24.50) and 100 back (52.20) at the World Championships, placing 8th and 4th, respectively, and even turned heads with a career-best 47.71 split on the Hungarian men’s 4×100 free relay.
Marchand and Kos have been working under the tutelage of Bowman for years, having followed him to Texas from Arizona State, but for Casas, 2025 marked his first full year with Bowman, and the progress he made was evident.
Casas’ headlining swim from the year was the aforementioned 200 IM in Singapore, but he also showed out at U.S. Nationals one month earlier in Indianapolis, winning the 100 fly with his fastest swim in three years (50.51) while also claiming the 200 IM title and breaking 48 for the first time in the 100 free (47.92).
The other individual medalists from the World Championships who train under Bowman were Regan Smith, who racked up four silvers in the women’s 50, 100 and 200 back, along with the 200 fly, and Luke Hobson, who claimed silver in the men’s 200 free.
Though she didn’t hit new best times in any of her events, Smith wasn’t far off in either the 50 back (27.23) or 100 back (57.35), with the 100 back swim also marking the sixth-fastest performance ever.
Smith also won gold on the women’s 4×100 medley relay, leading off in 57.57 to top Australia’s Kaylee McKeown (57.69) head-to-head (after McKeown swept the backstroke events) to help propel the Americans to victory in a new world record of 3:49.34.
Hobson entered rarefied air at U.S. Nationals in June, becoming just the sixth man in history to break 1:44 in the 200 free after clocking 1:43.73, knocking more than a second off his personal best and lowering Michael Phelps‘ U.S. Open Record of 1:44.10 set back in 2008.
Then, in the World Championship final, Hobson took command of the race early, leading by 65 one-hundredths at the final turn before being overtaken by David Popovici (1:43.53) to claim the silver medal in 1:43.84.
Hobson also delivered a 1:43.45 split for the U.S. men in the 4×200 free relay, the fastest leg in the field, though the team ultimately missed the podium in 4th.
OTHER BOWMAN-TRAINED SWIMMERS AT THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Simone Manuel – Manuel had a strong showing at U.S. Nationals in June, placing 3rd in the 100 free in 52.83, her fastest swim since 2019, while also taking 4th in the 50 free (24.39) and 6th in the 200 free (1:57.29) to earn a berth at Worlds in the relays. In Singapore, she led off the U.S. women’s 4×100 free relay in 53.04 en route to a silver medal, and added two gold and one more silver medal after swimming prelim duties on three other relays. Carson Foster – Foster also performed well at U.S. Nationals, setting new best times in the 200 free (1:45.45) and 200 fly (1:53.70) while nearing his PB in the 200 IM (1:55.76) and also clocking 4:07.92 in the 400 IM to earn three individual and one relay berth at Worlds. However, his campaign in Singapore was cut short due to an ankle injury that forced him to withdraw from the final of the 200 IM and, therefore, the 4×200 free relay and 400 IM, though he did place 5th in the 200 fly earlier in the meet. Chris Guiliano – Guiliano produced a strong swim in the 100 free at U.S. Nationals, placing 3rd in 47.49 to earn a relay berth at the World Championships. In Singapore, he split 47.43 on the U.S. men’s 4×100 free relay that won bronze, and added a gold medal after contributing a prelim leg of the mixed 4×100 free relay. David Johnston – Johnston made the U.S. team in the men’s 1500 free, clocking 14:57.83 to place 2nd at Nationals before going 14:56.20 at Worlds to place 9th. Rex Maurer – Coming off a phenomenal college season, Maurer had a long course breakthrough at U.S. Nationals, winning the men’s 400 free in a new U.S. Open Record (3:43.33) while placing 2nd in the 800 free (7:49.53) and 3rd in both the 200 free (1:45.13) and 400 IM (4:09.65), setting new best times across the board. Like many members of the American team, Maurer was then off form in Singapore, failing to final in either the 400 free or 400 IM, though he did swim in the final of the men’s 4×200 free relay, splitting 1:45.82 as the U.S. team placed 4th.Other swimmers who showed significant improvement at U.S. Nationals training under Bowman included Nate Germonprez and Will Modglin, both earning a spot on the World University Games roster (with Modglin claiming an individual silver in the 100 back).
Heading into the back half of the year, several Longhorn swimmers showed out during the World Cup (SCM) circuit, highlighted by Kos rewriting the record books in the men’s backstroke events.
At the final leg of the series in Toronto, Kos set new world records in the men’s 100 back (48.16) and 200 back (1:45.12), cracking Coleman Stewart‘s four-year-old mark of 48.33 in the former and Mitch Larkin‘s decade-old record of 1:45.63 in the latter.
Additionally, Smith tied her world record in the women’s 100 back at the Westmont stop in a time of 54.02.
Kos went on to win the overall men’s title, having earned Triple Crowns in the 50, 100 and 200 back, while Casas took 2nd overall after sweeping the 100 and 200 IM–breaking Lochte’s American Record in the 200 in Carmel–and winning the 400 IM twice. Foster and Guiliano placed 5th and 7th overall in the series, giving Bowman’s swimmers four of the top seven spots.
On the women’s side, Smith placed 5th overall after winning the 100 back twice and picking up a Triple Crown in the 200 fly.
Closing out the year at the U.S. Open in early December, Bowman’s swimmers continued to excel, with Casas notably winning the men’s 100 fly in a lifetime best of 50.24, Guiliano claiming the men’s 50 free in a PB of 21.57, and Marchand resurfacing with best times in the 400 free (3:44.70) and 100 fly (51.20) while dropping a time of 1:52.57 in the 200 fly to rank 2nd in the world for the year. Kos was also on fire with wins in the 100 back (52.63), 200 back (1:54.21) and 200 IM (1:55.50).
Two new members of the college team, freshman Campbell McKean and transfer Baylor Nelson, also impressed as McKean was 2nd in the 100 breast (59.67) and 3rd in the 50 breast (27.10), while Nelson set a PB in the 200 IM (1:58.36) to place 2nd and matched that finish in the 400 IM (4:15.91).
For the women, Bowman gained a new member to his training group at the end of the summer in Summer McIntosh, and in her first meet since making the move, she performed well by winning the women’s 400 free with the second-fastest swim ever (3:55.37), claiming the 200 fly with the fourth-fastest swim ever (2:02.62), and adding a PB in the 100 fly (57.01).
Smith also earned two wins and three runner-up finishes at the U.S. Open, while Manuel impressed with wins in the 100 free (53.04) and 200 free (1:56.66).
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Todd DeSorbo (Virginia) – DeSorbo’s Virginia swimmers continued to thrive in 2025, starting off with the Cavaliers winning a fifth straight Women’s NCAA title behind historic performances from Gretchen Walsh and Claire Curzan. Walsh then exploded to open the long course season in May, breaking the world record in the women’s 100 fly (54.60) by a massive margin of 58 one-hundredths. She also broke the American Record in the 50 fly (24.93) and set a new best time in the 100 free (52.93). At Nationals in June, DeSorbo put seven swimmers on the U.S. World Championship roster, with Walsh tying the American Record in the 50 free (23.91), setting a new mark in the 50 fly (24.66) and adding a win in the 100 fly (54.76) while also taking 2nd in the 100 free (52.78) to qualify for Worlds in four individual events. Also qualifying was Curzan, Kate Douglass, Alex Walsh, Katie Grimes, Anna Moesch and Jack Aikins, with Douglass winning the women’s 100 and 200 breast, Walsh claiming the 200 IM, and Curzan upsetting Regan Smith in the 200 back with a new best time of 2:05.09. At the World Championships, G. Walsh swept the women’s 50 and 100 fly, Douglass was victorious in the 200 breast with a new American Record (2:18.50) and added a silver in the 100 breast, while A. Walsh earned silver in the 200 IM and Curzan claimed bronze in the 200 back. Douglass also split 51.90 as the U.S. women won silver in the 4×100 free relay, and went 52.43 as they earned gold and broke the world record in the mixed 4×100 free relay, while Douglass (1:04.27) and G. Walsh (54.98) swam breast and fly to help the American women break the world record in the 4×100 medley relay. In short course meters at the World Cup, Douglass made history by becoming the first woman under 50 seconds in the 100 free, first setting the world record in Westmont (50.19) before downing it again in Toronto (49.93), while G. Walsh lowered her world record in the 50 fly (23.72). In addition to Douglass doing so in the 100 free, she also picked up Triple Crowns at the World Cup in the 100 and 200 breast, while G. Walsh did so in the 50 fly, 100 fly and 100 IM, and A. Walsh accomplished the feat in the 200 IM. Anthony Nesty (Florida) – Nesty earns an Honorable Mention after coaching Katie Ledecky to arguably the best year of her career since 2016, having broken her nine-year-old world record in the women’s 800 free at the Fort Lauderdale Pro Swim in a time of 8:04.12. Ledecky also delivered the second-fastest 1500 free ever (15:24.51) and the second-fastest swim of her career in the 400 free (3:56.81) at the meet. She then swept the women’s 400 (3:58.56), 800 (8:05.76) and 1500 free (15:36.76) at U.S. Nationals, while another one of Nesty’s swimmers at Florida, Emma Weyant, won the women’s 400 IM (4:34.76) to book a spot at the World Championships. Weyant also recorded her fastest swim in four years in the event in Fort Lauderdale (4:33.95). In Singapore, Ledecky showed out with a career-defining win in the 800 free, overcoming Summer McIntosh and a surprise push from Lani Pallister to win the world title for the seventh time in her career in 8:05.62. Ledecky also dominated the 1500 free in 15:26.44 to win double gold, and added a bronze in the 400 free (3:58.49) individually while anchoring the U.S. women to silver and an American Record in the 4×200 free relay with a 1:53.71 split. Weyant placed 5th in the 400 IM final (4:34.01), while Canadian Josh Liendo had some solid swims including a 49.64 fly split as Canada won bronze on the mixed medley relay, while he took 4th in the individual 100 fly in 50.09. During the short course season, Liendo broke the world record in the 100 fly in a time of 47.68 at the Toronto World Cup in October, also setting a new national record in the 100 free (45.30), while Ledecky made history by becoming the first woman under 15 minutes in the SCY 1650 free (14:59.62) in December.PREVIOUS WINNERS
2024: Todd DeSorbo (Virginia) 2023: Bob Bowman (Arizona State/Sun Devil Swimming) 2022: Anthony Nesty (Florida/Gator Swim Club) 2021: Todd DeSorbo (Virginia) 2020: Ray Looze (Indiana Swim Club/Indiana) 2019: Greg Meehan (Alto Swim Club/Stanford) 2018: Dave Durden (California Aquatics/Cal) 2017: Greg Meehan (Alto Swim Club/Stanford) 2016: Dave Durden (California Aquatics/Cal) 2015: David Marsh (SwimMAC Carolina)Read the full story on SwimSwam: 2025 Swammy Awards: U.S. Coach of the Year – Bob Bowman
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