2025 SEC Championships
- Dates: Tuesday, February 18–Saturday, February 22
- Location: Gabrielsen Natatorium, Athens, GA
- Defending Champions: Florida girls (2x); Florida males (12x)
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- Groups: Alabama, Arkansas (girls), Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas*, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt (girls)
With the NCAA Swimming and Diving championship season upon us, athletes across the nation are getting ready to place their greatest foot ahead in an effort to face atop the rostrum. 2025 is the primary yr we see convention realignment take full impact, and these convention championship meets are actually more durable and extra aggressive than ever. The addition of Texas this yr is bound to bolster the extent of competitors on this convention. Diving is already notoriously troublesome to foretell, however the hope is that this text will give viewers just a few key standouts to look out for and a good suggestion of what to anticipate this week.
Girls’s 1 Meter Picks
- Hailey Hernandez – Texas
- Sophie Verzyl – South Carolina
- Montserrat Lavenant – LSU
- Camyla Monroy – Florida
- Helle Tuxen – LSU
- Caroline Kupka – Texas
- Maria Sanchez-Moreno – Arkansas
- Avery Giese – Kentucky
Different Contenders: Bayleigh Cranford (Texas), Alejandra Estudillo (Texas), Mayson Richards (Texas A&M), Malea Martinez (Arkansas)
Girls’s one-meter is arguably the diving occasion the place “danger vs reward” comes into play most. That is the occasion with the best problem rating discrepancies between those that play it secure and people who go for broke. Finally, in my prediction, I selected Hailey Hernandez as my champion over others who boast an total increased problem. It’s Hernandez’s consistency and continued skill to carry out in clutch conditions that guided my determination. Nonetheless, if any of the opposite opponents can hit their troublesome dives when it issues most, anticipate the struggle for the highest spot to be fierce.
Girls’s 3 Meter Picks
- Sophie Verzyl – South Carolina
- Alejandra Estudillo – Texas
- Montserrat Lavenant – LSU
- Camyla Monroy – Florida
- Maria Sanchez-Moreno – Arkansas
- Bayleigh Cranford – Texas
- Hailey Hernandez – Texas
- Helle Tuxen – LSU
Different Contenders: Taylor Fox (Texas), Kyleigh Kidd (Auburn), Caroline Kupka (Texas), Else Praasterink (Texas A&M)
It’s exhausting to disregard Sophie Verzyl’s spectacular enchancment curve over the previous couple of years. After taking an Olympic redshirt final season, Verzyl is wanting higher than ever and primed to earn her first SEC title. Nonetheless, the Mexican quartet of Estudillo, Lavenant, Monroy, and Sanchez-Moreno should not simply going to let Verzyl take it. That is going to be a good competitors, but when Verzyl can execute her troublesome dives within the ultimate, I imagine it’s her title to lose.
Girls’s Platform Picks
- Alejandra Estudillo – Texas
- Maria Sanchez-Moreno – Arkansas
- Bayleigh Cranford – Texas
- Else Praasterink – Texas A&M
- Montserrat Lavenant – LSU
- Taylor Fox – Texas
- Camyla Monroy – Florida
- Sarah Carruthers – Texas
Different Contenders: Maggie Buckley (LSU), Abigail Farrar (Auburn), Casey Greenberg (Florida), Emily Hallifax (Auburn)
In a contest discipline as stacked as this one, it’s fairly unconventional to foretell two freshmen to take the highest spots. Nonetheless, these two athletes have confirmed in earlier competitions that they’re top-tier platform divers. They’ll face stiff competitors from the 2023 SEC platform champion in Lavenant and the 2024 SEC platform champion in Monroy. So as to add to the depth of this already spectacular discipline, the 2024 ACC gold and silver medalists in Bayleigh Cranford (beforehand with NC State) and Else Praasterink (beforehand with Louisville) will even be competing for the SEC title this season. Even by all this noise, I anticipate to see these two freshman phenoms rise to the event and set up themselves as those to beat come March.
