Baylor Nelson Swims 3:34.83 400 IM; Becomes 7 All Time Months After Transfer ...Middle East

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2025 Texas Hall of Fame Invitational

Baylor Nelson has been at Texas for just a few months and he is making the most of his training with the best IM group in the world right now, dropping three seconds in the 400 IM final to become the 7th fastest performer in history with his 3:34.83.

Men’s 400 IM — Finals

Top 8 Finishers:

Nelson transferred to Texas after spending three years at Texas A&M. In 2022, he was SwimSwam’s top ranked recruit in the class of 2022, but after he saw a three second drop in his freshman year at A&M in the 400 IM, he stagnated in the event.

At last year’s NCAA Championships, he finished 7th, touching in 3:39.84 after he swam right on his best time at SECs. Texas sophomore Rex Maurer won the event in 3:34.00

The Texas IM group boasts the best IMers in the world, including both 400 IM World Record holders Leon Marchand and Summer McIntosh. Head Coach Bob Bowman has a history of building incredibly strong IM swimmers and of the top 10 400 IMers SCY in history, eight of them have been coached by Bowman.

Top 10 Performers in History

Nelson came into college at 3:41.59, which he swam in March of 2022. He dropped under 3:40 as a freshman for the first time, swimming 3:38.11 at the NCAA Championships in 2023 to finish 10th overall for the Aggies.

His previous lifetime best in the event came from the 2024 NCAA Championships as a sophomore, when he dropped half-a-second to swim 3:37.46 and finish 3rd overall behind Leon Marchand and David Schlicht both from ASU.

Last year, he matched that time almost exactly, swimming 3:37.47 in the final at the SEC Championships to come in about two seconds behind now teammate Rex Maurer. At NCAAs, he swam 3:38.42 in prelims and 3:39.84 in finals.

Overall, he had only dropped half-a-second since 2023 until he dropped three seconds last night to set the top time in the country this season.

Nelson’s Top Times From Every Season

His three second drop was not from a dramatic improvement in any one stroke, all four of his splits were faster than he swam at the 2024 NCAAs with the biggest improvement coming from the butterfly where he was about a second faster. He was also eight tenths faster on the backstroke and half-a-second faster on the breaststroke. His freestyle saw the smallest improvement at just two tenths faster.

Nelson is not the only A&M transfer who has been performing well at the Hall of Fame Invite. Sophomore Jacob Wimberly won the men’s 200 freestyle at the meet with a full second drop from his previous best, touching in 1:31.51 to take the event by nearly a second.

His previous best came from last year’s SEC Championships, when he swam 1:32.86 to finish 13th overall. He missed earning an invite in the event by six tenths with the final spot going to 1:32.27.

Wimberly now leads the country in the event with Georgia’s Tomas Koski coming in just behind him at 1:31.68.

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