No. 4/10 Florida Swim & Dive Competes at 2026 SEC Championships

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – No. 4/10 Florida swimming & diving heads to Knoxville, Tennessee, for the 2026 Southeastern Conference Swimming & Diving Championships, set for Feb. 16-21 on the Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center.

All meet info, together with schedules, tickets, warmth sheets/outcomes, streaming hyperlinks, parking and fan insurance policies, may be discovered on the 2026 SEC Swimming & Diving Championships Central page. Every session will probably be streamed on SEC Network+ with championship finals referred to as by Gator Great Elizabeth Beisel, Rowdy Gaines and Joe Bieninati. Live Stats will probably be obtainable on the Meet Mobile app and at Tennessee’s live results website.

SEC Championship Schedule

• The six-day meet opens Monday, Feb. 16, with males’s 1-meter diving. Tuesday options the 1,650 freestyle, ladies’s 1-meter diving and concludes with the 200 medley relay and 800 free relay.
• Swimming preliminaries start Wednesday with the 100 again, 200 fly and 100 breast, adopted by males’s 3-meter diving and the 400 medley relay in finals.
• Thursday contains the 100 fly, 400 IM and 200 free, together with ladies’s 3-meter diving. Friday’s slate options the 200 breast, 50 free, 500 free, males’s platform and 200 free relay.
• The championships conclude Saturday with the 200 IM, 100 free, 200 again, ladies’s platform and 400 free relay.

Florida’s SEC Championships Resume

• Florida enters the week with some of the adorned histories in SEC Swimming & Diving. With Texas becoming a member of the convention this season, the Gators look to reassert themselves atop the league standings.
• The Florida males have captured 45 SEC group championships, the second-most by any SEC program throughout all sports activities.
• The Florida ladies have received 19 SEC group titles, essentially the most of any ladies’s swimming & diving program in convention historical past.
• The males personal essentially the most SEC titles in each particular person swimming occasion.
• The ladies lead the convention in championships in 11 of 13 swimming occasions, along with 1-meter diving.
• Both applications additionally maintain essentially the most titles in 4 of the 5 relay occasions.

SEC Championships Format & Scoring

• The SEC Championships comply with a prelims-and-finals format, that means swimmers compete twice in sooner or later for many occasions (excluding the 1,650 freestyle and relays).
• Each morning begins with preliminary heats, the place swimmers are seeded by time and race to qualify for night finals. The prime 24 finishers advance and rating factors all through three finals.

  • Championship Final (A Final) – Top 8 compete for the SEC title
  • Consolation Final (B Final) – Ninth-Sixteenth
  • C Final – Seventeenth-Twenty fourth

• While solely the A Final determines occasion champions, B and C Final scoring are sometimes essential within the total group race.
• Relay occasions carry double the factors of particular person occasions, making them pivotal to the group standings.
• Diving follows an identical format. The prime 16 advance to the Championship and Consolation Finals, whereas the 17-24 placements additionally rating group factors.
• At the conclusion of the meet, the group with the very best cumulative whole is topped SEC Champion.

2025-26 Gator Splashes
Florida returns a mixed 28 student-athletes (13 males, 15 ladies) with prior SEC Championships expertise.

Men

• Josh Liendo enters his last SEC’s as a three-time Champion within the 100 fly and two-time Champion within the 100 free. He has additionally been a member of successful relay groups within the 200 free relay (2023), 400 free relay (2024), 800 free relay (2025) and the 400 medley relay (2023, 2024, 2025).
• Jonny Marshall, the two-time defending SEC Champion in each the 100 and 200 again, seems to finish the three-peat in every occasion.
• Aleksas Savickas returns to defend his breaststroke success after successful the 200 breast (2023, 2025) and 100 breast (2024).
• Freshman Ahmed Jaouadi, a three-time SEC Freshman of the Week honoree, owns the convention’s quickest 1,650 free time and ranks second within the 500 free. Seniors Gio Linscheer and Eric Brown add depth to Florida’s distance, rating seventh and eighth within the 1,650 free.
• In diving, Conor Gesing seems to construct on his 2025 one-meter and 2024 three-meter SEC titles, whereas Jesus Gonzalez returns after incomes bronze on platform final season.
• Scotty Buff and Alexander Painter have additionally contributed to SEC Championship relay victories and particular person podium finishes.
• Florida may also see a number of debuts, together with January additions Ahmed Hafnaoui and Koen de Groot, alongside Jesus Agundez Mora, Charlie Hutchison and Jordan Willis.

Women

• Anita Bottazzo enters the meet with the quickest occasions within the SEC in each the 100 and 200 breast. Junior Molly Mayne ranks fifth within the convention in each occasions.
• Lainy Kruger and Catie Choate make their third SEC Championships appearances, whereas diver Camyla Monroy seems so as to add to her medal assortment after successful the 1-meter (2025) and platform (2024).
• Julie Brousseau heads into her second SEC meet ranked third within the 500 free and sixth within the 1,650 free.
• Freshman Grace Rabb makes her SEC debut seeded fourth within the 200 IM and seventh within the 200 breast.
• Florida returns 9 ladies with SEC Championships expertise, whereas Beatriz Bezerra, Zuri Ferguson, Aspen Gersper, Anna Moore and Sylvia Statkevicius are set to compete of their first SEC Championships.

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