Gators Swimming and Diving Goes 4-for-6 in SEC Weekly Awards – WRUF 98.1 FM | 850 AM

The SEC gives solely six weekly honors for swimming and diving groups throughout the convention. This week, Florida males’s and ladies’s groups captured 4.  

In a powerful Halloween outing, the Gators swept Georgia on each the boys’s and ladies’s aspect on the O’Connell Center. The males gained 191-154 and the ladies gained 194-145. 

Senior Josh Liendo, who led Florida with 27 factors, was the SEC males’s swimmer of the week. Liendo recorded the nation’s prime time in three of his occasions. Liendo gained the 50-yard free fashion, 50-yard butterfly and the 50-yard fly. Add that to his contribution on each relays for the Gators and it turns into clear why Liendo acquired the nod. 

Then you’ve SEC girls’s swimmer of the week Anita Bottazzo. Coming out of Venice, Italy, the three-time All-America crushed it, easy as that. Bottazzo gained all 5 of her occasions and he or she now has the quickest occasions within the 50- and 100-yard breaststrokes.

Ahmed Jaouadi is the boys’s freshman of the week, taking first place in two occasions in opposition to Georgia. His time of 8:36.65 for the 1,000-yard free is the nation’s main clip. 

To spherical issues out, Maria Garcia, who contributed 18 factors to the Gators’ win, was named the ladies’s diver of the week. As solely a freshman, Garcia is progressing quickly, as each of her springboard occasions have been private bests. 

Florida’s subsequent occasion is the Georgia Invitational on Nov. 19 in Athens, the place they give the impression of being to beat the Bulldogs as soon as once more.

Category: Gator Sports, Gators Swimming and Diving