2025 SEC Championships Day 4 Finals

2025 SEC Championships

• Dates: Tuesday, February 18–Saturday, February 22
  • Prelims: 9:30 am EST/ Finals 5:30 pm EST (Tuesday-5:00 EST)
• Location: Gabrielsen Natatorium — Athens, GA
• Defending Champions: Florida girls (2x); Florida males (12x)
• Dwell Outcomes
• Dwell Video: SEC Community+
• Championship Central
• Fan Information (Males)
• Fan Information (Ladies)
• Psych Sheets
• Groups: Alabama, Arkansas (girls), Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas*, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt (girls)
• Dwell Recaps

Day 4 Finals of the SEC Championships noticed a couple of extraordinarily thrilling races, and two meet data.

Rex Maurer swam 3:35.61 within the 400 IM to win the occasion and break the earlier document of three:35.76 from 2018.

Josh Liendo broke his 100 fly document once more, after decreasing it within the prelims, swimming 43.23 to win the lads’s 100 fly and set the 4th quickest time in historical past.

General, Texas remained on high after the times occasions. The ladies have a 300 level lead on Florida with two days left, and the lads have a 100 level lead, additionally on Florida.

The occasion recaps are the identical as those posted within the stay recap.

WOMEN’S 400 IM – Last

• NCAA Report: 3:54.60 – Ella Eastin, Stanford (2018)
• SEC Report: 3:58.23 – Sydney Pickrem, Texas A&M (2019)
• SEC Championship Report: 3:58.35 – Elizabeth Beisel, Florida (2012)
• 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Minimize: 4:03.62

Last:

1. Emma Weyant (FLOR), 3:59.24
2. Ella Jansen (TENN), 4:01.61
3. Campbell Stoll (TEX), 4:03.11
4. Mabel Zavaros (FLOR), 4:03.93
5. Julie Brousseau (FLOR), 4:04.21
6. Emily Brown (TENN), 4:05.17
7. Campbell Chase (TEX), 4:06.63
8. Sofia Plaza (FLOR), 4:07.23

Ella Jansen touched first after the butterfly leg within the girls’s 400 IM ‘A’ remaining and continued to guide on the midway mark, delivering 1:54.61. Emma Weyant made the backstroke-to-breaststroke flip in third and went proper to work, consuming away at Jansen’s lead. 50 yards into the breaststroke leg, Jansen and Weyant had been tied.

Weyant continued to push the tempo and made her remaining stroke change at 3:04.37, 1.77-seconds forward of Texas sophomore Campbell Stoll. Weyant anchored her swim in 54.87, stopping the clock at 3:59.24 to win her third-straight 400 IM SEC title. The swim is simply .24 seconds from her lifetime finest and her first time sub-4:00 this season.

The early chief Jansen touched third after the breaststroke leg, three-hundredths behind Stoll. She battled again on the freestyle leg, pulling effectively forward of Stoll and successful the silver medal in 4:01.61. It’s her second lifetime better of the day. After coming into the meet with a lifetime better of 4:06.06, the Canadian Olympian swam 4:04.45 in prelims earlier than taking one other 2.84 seconds off her finest within the remaining.

Stoll held off a cost from Florida fifth-year Mabel Zavaros on the freestyle leg. She earned bronze in a lifetime finest 4:03.11, bettering from 4:03.89 on the 2024 NCAA Championships.

MEN’S 400 IM – Last

• NCAA Report: 3:28.82 – Leon Marchand, Arizona State (2023)
• SEC Report: 3:33.42 – Chase Kalisz, Georgia (2017)
• SEC Championship Report: 3:35.76 – Hugo Gonzalez, Auburn (2018)
• 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Minimize: 3:38.37

Last:

1. Rex Maurer (TEX), 3:35.61 CR
2. Baylor Nelson (TAMU), 3:37.47
3. Jake Magahey (UGA), 3:37.89
4. Giovanni Linscheer (FLOR), 3:38.46
5. Cooper Lucas (TEX), 3:39.02
6. Drew Hitchcock (UGA), 3:39.98
7. David Johnston (TEX), 3:40.86
8. Mason Laur (FLOR), 3:42.53

Rex Maurer took management of the lads’s 400 IM championship remaining on the backstroke leg. He was simply two-hundredths behind Georgia’s Jake Magahey on the finish of the butterfly leg and shortly took over the lead, flipping .87 seconds forward of Magahey, now operating second, 50 yards into the backstroke leg.

Maurer opened his race in 48.75/53.95, however his breaststroke leg supplied a gap for two-time defending champion Baylor Nelson to make his transfer. Nelson break up 1:01.62 on his breaststroke leg whereas Maurer break up 1:03.30. The 2 turned to freestyle practically collectively, with Nelson simply .17 seconds off Maurer’s lead.

However final night time’s 500 freestyle champion pulled away on the freestyle elg, splitting 49.61 to earn his second particular person SEC title in as many days with an total time of three:35.61. The time is a brand new championship document for Maurer, erasing Hugo Gonzalez’s meet document from his Auburn days.

Magahey, one other glorious 500 freestyler, additionally closed sturdy, splitting 50.22 over the ultimate 100 yards. Nelson had sufficient left within the tank to carry him off, and earned the silver medal in 3:37.47, which is a hundredth off his lifetime finest. Magahey was additionally not removed from his lifetime finest (3:37.64) clocking a season-best 3:37.89 to win bronze, bettering on his fifth-place end from 2024 SECs.

Giovanni Linscheer, Cooper Lucas, and Drew Hitchcock all swam lifetime bests within the championship remaining. Lucas’ and Hitchcock’s swims marked their first sub-3:40 efforts.

WOMEN’S 100 FLY – Last

• NCAA Report: 47.35 – Gretchen Walsh, Virginia (2024)
• SEC Report: 48.51 – Maggie MacNeil, LSU (2023)
• SEC Championship Report: 48.99 – Maggie MacNeil, LSU (2023)
• 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Minimize: 50.52

Last:

1. Emma Sticklen (TEX), 49.40
2. Olivia Peoples (FLOR), 50.96
3. Abby Arens (TEX), 51.21
4. Olivia Bray (TEX), 51.28
5. Sara Stotler (TENN), 51.50
6. Morgan Carteaux (AUB), 51.64
7. Greta Pelzek (SCAR), 51.73
8. Olivia Theall (TAMU), 51.90

This race was all about Emma Sticklen. She’s been hacking day without work her lifetime finest and the Texas program document all season, and tonight was no exception. She was out like a shot, turning on the midway mark in 22.79, underneath Maggie MacNeil’s championship document tempo.

She gave again time to MacNeil’s blistering again Half over the closing 50 yards, however nonetheless lowered her lifetime finest once more this season, slicing .15 seconds off her time from the Eddie Reese Showdown final month with a 49.40. Per USA Swimming’s database, that makes her the eighth quickest performer in historical past, pending tonight’s outcomes across the league.

Sticklen gained the race by over a second, as final 12 months’s champion Olivia Peoples collected silver in 50.96. The swim is a season-best for Peoples, who checked in at 51.01 at her midseason invitational.

Swim followers have gotten used to seeing the Longhorn girls’s butterfly group shine within the 200 butterfly over current years, however they put their dash abilities on show tonight. The Longhorns completed 1-3-4, as fifth-years Abby Arens and Olivia Bray swam 51.21 and 51.28 for third and fourth place, respectively.

Sara Stotler clocked a lifetime finest 51.50 for fifth place.

MEN’S 100 FLY – Last

• NCAA Report: 42.80 – Caeleb Dressel, Florida (2018)
• SEC Report: 42.80 – Caeleb Dressel, Florida (2018)
• SEC Championship Report: 43.70 – Josh Liendo, Florida (2025)
• 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Minimize: 44.51

Last:

1. Josh Liendo (FLOR), 43.23 CR
2. Luca Urlando (UGA), 43.99
3. Scotty Buff (FLOR), 44.28
4. Connor Foote (TAMU), 44.34
5. Harrison Lierz (TENN), 44.67
6. Gui Caribe (TENN), 44.76
7. Bjoern Kammann (TENN), 45.14
8. Martin Espernberger (TENN), 45.50

Josh Liendo jumped on the lads’s 100 butterfly remaining from the beginning. He shot out to the lead, turning on the midway level in 20.00, only a hundredth off Caeleb Dressel’s NCAA document tempo. He was over a half-second forward of the sphere, as Texas A&M junior Connor Foote made the flip in 20.57.

Liendo break up 23.23 over the second 50 of the race, touching in a season-best 43.23 and taking on the quickest time within the NCAA this season from the runner-up, Luca Urlando. Liendo’s swim erased the championship document he set on this morning’s prelims. He additionally now owns 4 of the six quickest 100 fly performances in historical past as he efficiently pulled off the three-peat.

Urlando, the 2022 SEC champion, joined Liendo underneath 44 seconds, clocking a 43.99. He’s been as quick as 43.62 this season, which he swam at a twin meet in opposition to Tennessee.

If not for Urlando, the highest 4 rankings would look an identical to final 12 months’s SEC Championships. Final 12 months’s runner-up Scotty Buff shaved a tenth off his lifetime finest to earn bronze in 44.28. He, Foote, and Harrison Lierz touched in the identical order as they did final 12 months, only one place decrease. Foote and Lierz each swam lifetime bests as effectively, with Foote clocking 44.34 and Lierz 44.67.

WOMEN’S 200 FREE – Last

• NCAA Report: 1:39.10 – Missy Franklin, Cal (2015)
• SEC Report: 1:40.90 – Bella Sims, Florida (2024)
• SEC Championship Report: 1:40.90 – Bella Sims, Florida (2024)
• 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Minimize: 1:42.60

Last:

1. Camille Spink (TENN), 1:42.06
2. Erin Gemmell (TEX), 1:42.32
3. Brooklyn Douthwright (TENN), 1:42.62
4. Lillie Nesty (TEX), 1:43.63
5. Lainy Kruger (FLOR), 1:43.90
6. Marie Landreneau (UGA), 1:44.10
7. Julia Mrozinski (TENN), 1:44.33
8. Chloe Stepanek (TAMU), 1:44.92

Camille Spink made it two wins in as many days on the SEC Championships, following up her 50 freestyle win from day three with a win within the 200 freestyle. Spink was the runner-up on this occasion final 12 months. She didn’t take any possibilities this night, utilizing her pace to hold her to the entrance of the race on the 50-yard mark (23.53).

The Tennessee sophomore led from wire-to-wire, holding off Olympians Erin Gemmell and Brooklyn Douthwright. She break up 49.51/52.55, swimming a lifetime finest 1:42.06 and bettering from the 1:42.37 she swam at this meet a 12 months in the past. Gemmell swam a lifetime finest as effectively, hitting 1:42.32. It’s a .52 second drop for the sophomore, who swam her earlier lifetime finest 1:42.79 on the Eddie Reese Invite lower than a month in the past.

In the meantime, Douthwright was .21 seconds off her lifetime finest from the 2023 NCAA Championships as she rounded out the rostrum wiht a 1:42.62. This was a powerful occasion for the Vols; along with ending first and third, Julia Mrozinski added a seventh place end. Freshman Lillie Nesty made it a 2-4 end for the Longhorns as she touched in 1:43.63, simply over a second behind Douthwright for fourth.

MEN’S 200 FREE – Last

• NCAA Report: 1:28.81 – Luke Hobson, Texas (2024)
• SEC Report: 1:29.48 – Kieran Smith, Florida (2021)
• SEC Championship Report: 1:29.48 – Kieran Smith, Florida (2021)
• 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Minimize: 1:31.21

Last:

1. Luke Hobson (TEX), 1:30.23
2. Chris Guiliano (TEX), 1:30.38
3. Charlie Hawke (BAMA), 1:30.62
4. Tomas Koski (UGA), 1:30.70
5. Alex Painter (FLOR), 1:31.13
6. Jordan Crooks (TENN), 1:31.88
7. Kaique Alves (BAMA), 1:32.07
8. Toni Dragoja (BAMA), 1:32.88

Chris Guiliano obtained out to an early lead for Texas, flipping on the 50-yard mark in 20.64, with Florida freshman Alex Painter .11 seconds behind him. Guiliano grew his lead over the second 50 yards, flipping .47 seconds forward of Painter on the midway mark in 43.33.

The hole stayed about the identical with 50 yards to go, although NCAA document holder Luke Hobson had taken over second-place. He was .43 seconds behind Guiliano on the 150-yard mark and pushed the ultimate 50, closing in 23.27. That gave him sufficient room to get forward of Guiliano (23.85) and win his first particular person SEC title in 1:30.23. He additionally takes over the pool document which has modified arms a number of occasions at these championships. Guiliano broke the document Charlie Hawke set on day one this morning with a 1:30.31.

Hobson pulled away within the closing yards as he and three swimmers got here down the stretch collectively–Guiliano, Hawke, and Tomas Koski. They had been the identical 4 swimmers that broke 1:30 this morning they usually all did so once more. Guiliano earned silver in 1:30.38, which was his lifetime finest earlier than his morning swim. Hawke clocked 1:30.62, a pair tenths from the lifetime finest he swam main off Alabama’s 800 freestyle relay. In the meantime, Koski continued to drop time, chipping one other .15 seconds off his normal with a 1:30.70, his second lifetime better of the day.

Painter positioned fifth, placing collectively his second lifetime better of the meet. The British freshman swam 1:31.13, bettering from the 1:31.21 he swam main off Florida’s 800 freestyle relay. He got here in to the meet with a lifetime finest 1:34.11.

Staff Scores By Day 4

Ladies:

1. Texas — 888.5
2. Florida — 576
3. Tennessee — 556
4. Georgia — 441.5
5. Texas A&M — 347
6. South Carolina — 344
7. LSU — 308
8. Alabama — 289
9. Auburn — 242.5
10. Missouri — 208.5
11. Kentucky — 166
12. Arkansas — 146
13. Vanderbilt — 89

Males:

1. Texas — 827.5
2. Florida — 714
3. Tennessee — 526.5
4. Georgia — 463
5. Texas A&M — 377
6. Alabama — 329
7. Auburn — 308
8. LSU — 295
9. Kentucky — 231
10. South Carolina — 164
11. Missouri — 157