#4/6 Florida Swimming & Diving Hosts #8/12 Georgia in Two-Day Twin Meet

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Florida swimming and diving packages welcome Georgia to Gainesville for a two-day twin meet to open SEC competitors on Thursday, Oct. 30, and Friday, Oct. 31. Action begins Thursday at 5 p.m. contained in the Stephen C. O’Connell Center Natatorium with diving and choose swimming occasions, adopted by a full slate of swimming on Friday beginning at 11 a.m.
 
Friday’s occasions will stream dwell on SEC+ and followers can comply with each classes by means of DiveMeets and the MeetMobile app.
 
Honoring Theresa Andrews
UF Athletics 2025 Hall of Fame Inductee Theresa Andrews will likely be honored previous to Friday’s occasions.
 
A 3-time NCAA champion and 18-time All-American, Theresa helped the Gators win the inaugural NCAA girls’s swimming and diving nationwide championships of their dwelling pool on the O’Connell Center in March 1982.
 
On the world stage, Theresa earned two Olympic gold medals on the 1984 Los Angeles Games — successful the 100-meter backstroke and the 400-meter medley relay. Her 100-meter victory, later acknowledged as one of many Top 10 biggest upsets in Olympic swimming historical past, held an particularly private that means, as she devoted her gold medal to her brother, Danny, who suffered paraplegia the earlier summer season.
 
In 2008, Theresa grew to become simply the third Gator ever to obtain the NCAA Silver Anniversary Award, which acknowledges people on the twenty fifth anniversary of the conclusion of their school athletics careers. The honor celebrates the achievements and contributions of former student-athletes who’ve excelled of their skilled lives and proceed to exemplify the values of collegiate athletics.
 
Before becoming a member of the Gators, she started her collegiate profession at Indiana University, the place she captured six Big Ten titles in her freshman season.

Thursday, October 30, 2025 Time: 5 p.m. Site: Stephen C. O’Connell Center Natatorium Attendance: Free Promotion: Pink Out the Pool First 100 followers to put on pink will obtain Pink Gators Goggles Schedule Posters out there Thursday’s Events 1-meter diving 50-yard Butterfly 50-yard Breaststroke 1,000-yard Freestyle 50-yard Backstroke 50-yard Freestyle MeetMobile (Swimming) DiveMeet (Diving)

Friday, October 31, 2025 Time: 11 a.m. Site: Stephen C. O’Connell Center Natatorium Attendance: Free Promotion: Halloween Horror First 150 followers will obtain a Gators Jaws T-Shirt Schedule Posters out there Friday’s Events 200-yard Medley Relay 200-yard Freestyle 100-yard Backstroke 100-yard Breaststroke 200-yard Butterfly 100-yard Freestyle 200-yard Backstroke 200-yard Breaststroke 500-yard Freestyle 100-yard Butterfly 400-yard IM 200-yard Free Relay  Stream: SEC+ Stats: MeetMobile (Swimming) DiveMeet (Diving)

Records:

• Men: No. 4 Florida (1-1, 0-0 SEC) vs. No. 8 Georgia (4-1, 2-0 SEC)
• Women: No. 6 Florida (1-1, 0-0 SEC) vs. No. 12 Georgia (2-2, 1-0 SEC)

Series History:

• Men: Florida leads 63-20-3
  

  • Last Meeting: Nov. 1, 2024 | Away | Win, 172.5-127.5

• Women: Series is tied 19-19

  • Last Meeting: Nov. 1, 2024 | Away | Win, 158-142

Gators Last Time Out vs. Virginia
The No. 4 Florida males’s swimming and diving group opened its 2025-26 dwelling slate with a 191.50-159.50 win over No. 13 Virginia, whereas the No. 6 girls fell to the nation’s top-ranked Cavaliers on Friday, Oct. 10.
 
Florida totaled 13 NCAA cuts, with the ladies recording 10 and the boys three.
 
The Gator males posted eight occasion victories and 26 top-three finishes, with 16 totally different swimmers contributing factors within the win. Freshmen Ahmed Jaouadi and Nil Cadevall scored team-high 22 factors apiece, every incomes two first-place finishes and one second-place end of their respective occasions.
 
On the ladies’s facet, Florida totaled 4 occasion victories and 13 top-three finishes, which was highlighted by historic efficiency from the 400 medley relay group of Catie Choate, Anita Bottazzo, Beatriz Bezerra and Lainy Kruger, who posted this system’s third-fastest time (3:28.67). Bottazzo, who recorded a 55.96 break up on the breast leg, led the Gators with 18 factors after successful each the 50-yard breast (26.58) and 100-yard breast (56.87).
 
Gator diving made a powerful influence, contributing 32 factors on each the boys’s and girls’s sides since Virginia now not has a diving program. Every diver recorded an NCAA Zone qualifying rating as nicely.
 
Josh Liendo Sets World Record
Florida competed with out Liendo, who was racing on the 2025 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup. The senior, who represents Team Canada, delivered a historic swim on the World Cup’s opening evening in Toronto, Canada, setting the 100m butterfly brief course world file of 47.68 in his dwelling pool.
 
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