Silas Beth Season 2025-26

1000-Yard Freestyle School Record Holder (8:56.50)
SEC Freshman of the Week vs. Texas A&M

Beth’s Top Times
1650-free: 14:51.39 2025 SEC Championships

SOPHOMORE SEASON (2024-25)
In the opening meet of the season against Texas placed third in 1000-free (8:58.76) and fifth in 500-free (4:21.83) … Won 500-free against Navy, George Mason, and Loyola (4:29.17) and took tenth in 200-IM (1:56.81) … In tri-meet against Alabama and Florida State finished fifth in 500-free (4:25.00) and third in 1000-free (8:59.14) … At midseasons placed 19th 200-free (1:36.81), 17th in 500-free (4:18.51), and tenth in 1650-free (15:08.92) … Against Texas A&M took third in 500-free (4:25.42) and fifth in 1000-free (9:05.29) … Set a personal best in 1650-free at SEC Championships (14:51.39).

FRESHMAN SEASON (2023-24)
Joined the LSU team in the Spring 2024 semester and competed in his first meet against the Texas A&M Aggies… Recorded top-10 LSU times in the 1650-free (5th – 15:06.94) and the 200-free (10th – 1:36.10)… Clocked a school record 8:56.50 in his first competition race – the 1000-yard freestyle – which broke Craig Hamilton’s 12-year record… Also competed in the 500-yard freestyle and finished second with a time of 4:21.56, which ranks No. 6 in LSU history… Against Tennessee, he placed second in the 1000-free (8:57.49) and fifth in the 500-free (4:27.11)… At the 2024 SEC Championships, he took 16th place in the 1650-free (15:06.94), 17th in the 500-free (4:16.15) and 28th in the 200-free (1:36.10)

PERSONAL
Full name is Silas Maximilian Beth… Native of Hamburg, Germany and born on September 10, 2003… Major entering his first year at LSU in Business Administration… Attended ​​Stadtteilschule Alter Teichweg in his hometown… His parent’s names are Katharina Reese and Volker Reese; has five siblings – Phillip, Julia, Morlin, Cassandra, Lillian.