Swimming and Diving Opens Season at House vs. Georgia – College of South Carolina Athletics

COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina swimming and diving begins its 2025-26 marketing campaign Wed., Oct. 8, at Carolina Natatorium, as they host SEC opponent Georgia. The twin meet will kick off at 3 p.m. with free admission. Live outcomes shall be out there on the subscription-based Meet Mobile platform.

The Gamecocks welcome again 4 particular person NCAA qualifiers from final season on the ladies’s facet, together with seniors Breckin Gormley and Amy Riordan, junior Delaney Franklin and sophomore Nora Fluck.

Gormley certified for her first NCAA Championship final season in two occasions (500 freestyle and 200 butterfly). She claimed the college report within the 500 freestyle (4:39.03) finally yr’s SEC Championships. Riordan broke a pair of faculty data within the 200 (1:51.230) and 100 (51.78) backstroke on the NCAA Championships, incomes an All-American Honorable Mention title for the second consecutive season.

Franklin notched private bests on the SEC Championships, putting her within the high 15 for all three occasions that she swam (200 breaststroke, 200 particular person medley and 400 particular person medley). She swam the identical occasions on the NCAA Championships. The sophomore, Fluck, posted the second-fastest time in class historical past within the 500 (4:40.68) behind Gormley. She additionally holds the second-fastest instances in class historical past within the 1000 freestyle (9:46.18) and 1650 freestyle (16:06.49).

Junior Connor Fry headlines the boys’s group, coming off his second consecutive NCAA qualifying season. He is joined by sophomore Ryan Turner, who was as soon as named SEC Freshman of the Week final season.

The girls’s diving corps welcomes again SEC Champion, Sophie Verzyl, who took gold within the 3-meter and silver within the 1-meter on the SEC Championships. Verzyl went undefeated in twin meets final season, tallying eight victories and was named SEC Diver of the Week six instances, which marked probably the most out of all different divers within the convention.

Alongside Riordan, Verzyl took house All-American Honorable Mention honors within the 1-meter and 3-meter after putting ninth and eleventh, respectively.

Max Spencer leads the boys on the diving facet, following his All-American Honorable Mention efficiency at NCAAs within the platform occasion. Spencer additionally certified for the 2025 SEC Championships, the place he scored in all three of his occasions, putting seventh on platform and tenth within the 3-meter.

Georgia enters the 2025-26 season ranked among the many high 15 within the nation (males/ninth, girls/thirteenth). The males’s group positioned seventh on the 2025 NCAA Championships, its highest end since 2021. They paired that with a third-place end on the SEC Championships alongside the ladies who positioned fourth, only one spot forward of the Gamecock girls. The Georgia girls’s group grabbed sixteenth on the NCAA Championships.

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