Florida Swim & Dive Takes on Virginia – WRUF 98.1 FM | 850 AM

Florida’s males’s and girls’s swim and diving groups will host Virginia Friday. The No. 4 and 6 Gators will face a tricky meet, with the Virginia males ranked No. 13 and the ladies ranked No. 1.

The Gators break up their season-opener twin meet in opposition to Indiana Sept. 26. The Gators girls’s crew gained 170-130, whereas Indiana rocked the Gators males’s crew 208-92.

The Florida girls’s crew gained 10 of the 12 swimming occasions. Freshman Julie Brousseau accrued 710.3 factors. She completed first within the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:51 and the 1,000-yard with 9:55:79. Junior Lainy Kruger contributed 768 factors. She gained the 200-yard freestyle and 200-yard fly. She swam a time of 1:48.37 and 1:59.44. 

Despite the lads’s crew’s lackluster efficiency, freshman Ahmed Jaouadi positioned first within the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:37.42. He led the Gators with 801 factors. 

In the Gators final match in opposition to Virginia in 2024, they notched a break up win. The males gained 231-69, whereas the ladies fell 181-119 to the No. 1 Cavaliers. The males gained 13 of their 14 occasions, with Josh Liendo taking first within the 50-yard freestyle, 200-yard medley relay and the 400-yard freestyle relay. He ended up first within the meet with 905.3 factors.

Liendo is now a senior and a captain for the Gators, and figures to be Florida’s distinct chief this season. He represented Canada on the World Aquatics Championships and the Swimming World Cup. He gained his third consecutive title within the males’s 100 freestyle championship. He can be the primary black Canadian to win an Olympic swimming medal.

Florida’s males’s crew is raring to tie up its collection at 1-1, whereas its girls’s crew appears to enhance its document to 2-0. Diving occasions will start at 12:30 p.m., and there might be swim occasions at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. 

Category: ACC, Gator Sports, Gators Swimming and Diving, SEC