Courtesy: Florida Athletics
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Florida men’s and women’s swimming and diving is set to open up their season on Oct. 2 at 10:00 a.m. against Florida Atlantic in Baca Raton, Fla.
The men are coming off of a third-place finish at last year’s NCAA Championships while the women are coming off of a 17th place.
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Preseason Gator Splashes
- The Gators will open up three-time SEC Coach of the Year Anthony Nesty‘s third season ranked No. 3 in the preseason College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Top 25 Poll, the highest of any SEC team. While the women are ranked 12th.
- The women’s team finished second at the SEC Championships last year.
- The men’s team won there ninth consecutive SEC Championship last year.
- Bobby Finke is coming into the season with two gold medals from the Tokyo Olympics in the 1500m and the 800m.
- Kieran Smith earned the bronze in the 400 free in Tokyo.
- Both Finke and Smith are defending champions in their respective events at last year’s NCAA Championships.
- The men have five Olympians returning this year including, Bobby Finke, Kieran Smith, Eric Friese, Alfonso Mestre, and Amro Al-Wir.
- Talia Bates in coming off a second-place finish in the 200 free at the NCAA Championships and 12th place finish in the 100 back at the Olympic Trials.
- The women’s team finished second at the SEC Championships last year.
Order of Events
200 Medley Relay
1000 Freestyle
200 Free
100 Back
100 Breast
200 Fly
50 Free
1M Diving
100 Free
200 Back
200 Breast
500 Free
100 Fly
3M Diving
200 IM
400 Free Relay
Can we just have a little more Bobby Finke please. Enough with the Dean comments – get a load of Bobby 😛
I am not sure the 400 LCM free has a respective event in the NCAA championship but the closest you could argue would be the 500 which Kieran is not the defending champion for. Not criticizing just clarifying. I do not think Kieran will make the mistake of saving too much for finish this time around.