No. 4/6 Florida Swimming & Diving Welcomes No. 13/1 Virginia in Season Dwelling Opener

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The No. 4 Florida males’s and No. 6 girls’s swimming and diving groups open their 2025-26 house slate this Friday, internet hosting the five-time defending National Champion Virginia girls and the Thirteenth-ranked Cavalier males on the Stephen C. O’Connell Center Natatorium.

Friday’s twin meet will characteristic two swimming periods, with the morning session starting at 10 a.m. Gator Diving will compete within the springboard occasions at 12:30 p.m., adopted by the second swimming session at 4 p.m. to shut out the meet.

Date: Friday, October 10, 2025
Site: Stephen C. O’Connell Center Natatorium
Attendance: Free
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Event Times:

• 10:00 a.m. First Swimming Session
  
  • 400-yard medley relay
  • 1000-yard freestyle
  • 50-yard butterfly
  • 50-yard breaststroke
  • 200-yard IM
  • 50-yard backstroke
  • 50-yard freestyle

• 12:30 p.m. Diving
  • Women’s 3-meter
  • Men’s 1-meter
  • Women’s 1-meter
  • Men’s 3-meter

• 4:00 p.m. Second Swimming Session
  • 200-yard freestyle
  • 100-yard backstroke
  • 100-yard breaststroke
  • 200-yard butterfly
  • 100-yard freestyle
  • 200-yard backstroke
  • 200-yard breaststroke
  • 100-yard butterfly
  • 500-yard freestyle
  • 400-yard freestyle relay

Stats:

• MeetMobile (Swimming)
• DiveMeet (Diving)

Records:

• Men: No. 4 Florida (0-1, 0-0 SEC) vs. No. 13 Virginia (0-0, 0-0 ACC)
• Women: No. 6 Florida (1-0, 0-0 SEC) vs. No. 1 Virginia (0-0, 0-0 ACC)

Series History:

• Men: Florida leads 11-1
  
  • Last Meeting: Oct. 18, 2024 | Away | Win, 231-69

• Women: Florida Leads 10-3
  • Last Meeting: Oct. 18, 2024 | Away | Loss, 119-181

Gators Last Time Out at Indiana

• The Florida swimming and diving groups cut up their season-opener twin meet towards Indiana on Friday, Sept. 26 on the Hoosiers’ Counsilman Billingsley Aquatic Center. The Gator girls secured a 170-130 victory, whereas the lads fell to the Hoosiers, 208-92.
• Florida’s girls dominated the meet with 10 occasion wins and swept the highest two spots in seven of the 12 swimming occasions. Julie Brousseau and Lainy Kruger every contributed 18 factors to the workforce whole after each incomes two particular person occasion wins and swimming on the 400-yard medley relay workforce who completed second.

Florida Duo Named SEC Women’s Swimmer and Diver of the Week

• Following their performances within the girls’s season-opening win at Indiana, Florida’s Lainy Kruger and Maria Garcia have been acknowledged on Tuesday, Sept. 30 as a part of the Southeastern Conference’s first weekly awards of the season.
• Kruger, a junior from Taylor Mill, Kentucky, was named SEC Co-Women’s Swimmer of the Week, whereas Garcia, a freshman from Nuevo Leon, Mexico, earned SEC Women’s Diver of the Week. The honors are the primary profession weekly accolade for each Gators.

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