Swimming & Diving Opens 2026-27 Season

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Florida Swimming & Diving is ready to start their 2026-27 marketing campaign on Saturday, Sept. 26. The males’s crew will journey to Boca Raton, Fla., to face Florida Atlantic on the Coral Springs Aquatic Complex. The girls’s crew competes towards Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn. on the Centennial Sportsplex.
 
Men’s Meet at Florida Atlantic
Date & Time: Saturday, Sept. 26 at 10 A.M.
Venue: Coral Springs Aquatic Complex
Swimming Live Results: Meet Mobile (App)
 
Florida Atlantic & Florida’s All-Time Series Record

• This would be the first time Florida will face FAU for the reason that 2022-23 season. Florida males are all-time 23-0 towards the Owls.

Preseason Gator Splashes

• Anthony Nesty enters his ninth season on the males’s head coach and sixth as the ladies’s head coach
• Assistant Coach Chelsea Piper joined the Gators teaching workers this previous July, arriving to Gainesville from Vanderbilt University
• This season, the Gators will compete towards Kentucky, Virginia, Georgia, Missouri and Florida State earlier than shifting into Championship season. Florida goals to reclaim the SEC title on the SEC Championships, scheduled for February 14-20 in Austin, Texas, the place the NCAA Championships will comply with in March.

Men

• Florida males’s swimming and diving enters the 2026-27 season coming off their greatest NCAA Championships end in 39 years (since 1985), inserting second for less than the second time in program historical past with a program-best 419 factors. The males introduced dwelling 5 nationwide titles, 14 extra podium finishes and earned 37 All-America honors. They additionally recorded two NCAA, program, U.S. Open and meet data, 4 pool data and 11 top-10 program occasions.
• The males’s roster contains 23 athletes (19 swimmers and 4 divers) with 16 returners. Notable returners embody:

  • Senior Jonny Marshall: Earned three First-Team All-American honors and captured silver within the 200 Back, touching the wall in 1:37.15 to earn his greatest end within the occasion at NCAA’s. At the 2026 SEC Championships, he performed a key function in Florida’s runner-up end, contributing 178 factors (62 particular person) and including three medals, highlighted by his third consecutive 200 Back title. He led off Florida’s 200 Medley Relay which reset NCAA and SEC program data with a time of 1:20.03 and positioned second within the 400 Medley Relay.
  • Senior Scotty Buff: Earned 4 First-Team All-American honors at NCAA’s, highlighted by two silver-medal finishes within the 200 Medley and 200 Free Relays. He helped the 200 Free Relay submit the No. 2 time in program historical past and added a bronze medal within the 400 Free Relay, whereas ending sixth within the 100 Fly for a solo podium end on his junior NCAA run. Competed in six occasions on the 2026 SEC Championships, contributing 250 crew factors (58 particular person) and tallied three relay gold medals. Swam the butterfly leg on Florida’s successful 200 Medley Relay crew, setting the NCAA, SEC and program file with a time of 1:20.03.
  • Senior Conor Gesing: Earned two First-Team All-American honors after inserting sixth on the 1-meter and fifth on the 3-meter at NCAA’s, contributing a key 27 particular person factors to Florida’s historic end. He helped Florida to a runner-up end on the SEC Championships, scoring 53 particular person factors and reaching the championship finals on each 1-meter and 3-meter, inserting seventh and sixth, respectively.
  • Senior Jesus Gonzalez: Earned First-Team All-American honors with a third-place end on platform on the NCAA Championships, including 16 factors with a rating of 427.25 within the remaining. A key contributor on the diving facet at SEC’s, capturing his first SEC gold medal on the 3-meter with a career-best 423.05 and silver on platform with a season-best rating of 431.85.
  • Junior Alexander Painter: Earned 4 All-American honors and three relay podium finishes (one silver and two bronze) on the NCAA Championships. Helped Florida to a runner-up end on the SEC Championships, capturing gold within the 200 and 400 Free Relays and contributing 247 factors to the crew complete (69 particular person). He additionally posted top-eight finishes within the 50, 100 and 200 Free.
  • Sophomore Ahmed Jaouadi: Earned two First-Team All-American honors on the NCAA Championships, turning into simply the second Gator to win the 1,650 Free title. As a freshman, he broke NCAA, U.S. Open, meet and program data with a 14:10.03, whereas including silver within the 500 Free with the No. 3 time in program historical past. A key distance freestyle contributor to Florida’s runner-up end at SEC’s, he gained gold within the 1,650 Free with a pool file 14:25.14 and claimed silver within the 500 Free.

• The Florida Gators welcome a brand new wave of expertise to the swimming and diving program, highlighted by an achieved group of newcomers with expertise on a number of the sport’s largest worldwide levels. These additions convey a robust mixture of depth, expertise and potential together with versatility throughout dash and distance occasions to an already adorned program. Some key additions embody: David Johnston, Abdalla Youssef, Santiago Alzate, Zoltan Bagi, Tai Pearson and Liam Smith, together with diver Miguel Tovar.

 
Women’s Meet at Vanderbilt
Date & Time: Saturday, Sept. 26 at 11 A.M. CT
Venue: Centennial Sportsplex
Swimming Live Results: Meet Mobile (App)
 
Vanderbilt & Florida’s All-Time Series Record

• The season opener marks the primary time the ladies’s crew will face Vanderbilt for the reason that 2023-24 season. Florida is 6-0 all-time towards this opponent.

Women

• Florida girls’s swimming and diving enters the 2026-27 season coming off their fourth consecutive top-10 end on the NCAA Championships – the primary such streak in a decade and the longest since 2001-15. The girls introduced dwelling {hardware} and the crew recorded 5 program top-10 occasions. Ten Gators mixed to earn 20 CSCAA All-America honors, together with 17 First-Team and 14 Second-Team choices.
• The girls’s roster contains 26 athletes (22 swimmers and 4 divers) with 19 returners. Notable returners embody:

  • Senior Catie Choate: Earned three All-American honors and tallied her third 200 Back honor after inserting sixteenth within the occasion at NCAA’s. She swam leadoff on each of Florida’s medley relay groups, clocking the No. 7 time in program historical past within the 200 Medley Relay and the 400 Medley Relay No. 5 mark. A member of the SEC Championships third-place crew, she earned one gold medal and contributed 246 factors (62 particular person). Won her first SEC title within the 200 Back with a career-best 1:49.94 and completed fourth within the 100 Back (51.36). Also contributed to Florida’s fourth-place end as leadoff the 400 Medley Relay.
  • Senior Lainy Kruger: Earned three All-American honors and recorded the No. 5 and No. 7 occasions in program historical past within the 400 and 200 Medley Relays, respectively. Also competed within the 800 Free Relay, 200 IM and 200 Fly. A member of the SEC Championships third-place crew she appeared in seven occasions and contributed 253 factors (69 particular person). Finished fifth within the 200 IM and sixth within the 200 Fly, whereas serving to Florida’s 800 Free Relay to a fourth-place end with a 1:44.13 cut up.
  • Senior Michaela Mattes: Earned All-American honors and the Gators’ first top-16 end of the week with a Tenth-place end within the 1,650 Free on the NCAA Championships. A member of the third-place SEC Championships crew, she competed in three occasions and contributed 40 particular person factors to the crew complete, together with a fourth-place end within the 1,650 Free.
  • Senior Camyla Monroy: Landed on the rostrum within the 1-meter and platform occasions at NCAA’s incomes two All-American honors. A member of the SEC Championships third-place crew, appeared in all three diving occasions and contributed 71 particular person factors. Won the platform title with a program-record 350.70 and positioned eighth on 1-meter and Tenth on 3-meter.
  • Junior Julie Brousseau: Finished on the NCAA podium at fifth within the 500 Free, securing First-Team All-American honors. Placed eleventh general within the 800 Free Relay to earn Second-Team All-American honors. Contributed 110 factors (58 particular person) on the 2026 SEC Championships, showing in 4 distance occasions. Finished fourth within the 400 IM with a season-best 4:06.61 and fourth within the 500 Free. Led off Florida’s fourth place 800 Free Relay and positioned 19^th within the 1,650 Free.
  • Sophomore Grace Rabb: Earned First-Team All-American honors for her sixth place 200 Breast efficiency, clocking the No. 2 time (2:06.85) in program historical past. Moved to No. 8 all-time along with her 100 Fly efficiency and likewise competed within the 200 IM. In her collegiate SEC Championships debut, she contributed 126 factors, together with a team-high 74 particular person factors. She earned a silver medal within the 200 Breast with a collegiate-best end of two:08.48. She additionally completed seventh within the 100 Fly and 200 IM and contributed on the butterfly leg of Florida’s fourth-place 400 Medley Relay.

• The Florida Gators welcome a brand new wave of expertise to the swimming and diving program, highlighted by an achieved group of newcomers with expertise on a number of the sport’s largest worldwide levels. These additions convey a robust mixture of depth, expertise and potential together with versatility throughout dash and distance occasions to an already adorned program. Some key additions embody: Maeline Bessard, Bomin Kim, Maddie Moreth, Valentina Procaccini, Carla Serra and Francesca Zucca together with freshman diver Juliana Giron Trochez.

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