AUSTIN, Texas – Olympic gold medalist and six-time NCAA champion Joseph Schooling rewrote the Longhorns' eight-year-old school mark in the 50-yard freestyle and highlighted day two for the Longhorns Thursday evening at the 2017 Big 12 Championships.
Schooling, the reigning Olympic champion in the 100m butterfly who holds NCAA records in the 100- and 200-yard butterfly events, added a fifth school record to his collection when he clocked 18.76 seconds to win Thursday's 50 freestyle final. The mark eclipsed the previous school and Big 12 mark of 18.84 set by two-time U.