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)
- Stay Outcomes
- Stay 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)
- Stay Recaps
Day 3 Prelims Warmth Sheet
Good morning swim followers! After an electrical first night time of swimming finals on the 2025 SEC Championships, this morning will probably be our first have a look at the athletes of their particular person occasions at this championship.
The Texas girls received their first race at their SEC debut, setting a meet document within the 200 medley relay. They’ll look to win their first particular person occasion at present and will examine that field off within the very first occasion, as redshirt freshman and SEC document holder Jillian Cox will dive in for the five hundred freestyle. She’s already quicker than what Sims went to win the five hundred freestyle finally 12 months’s NCAAs. Sims’ season-best is simply too, however she’s opted for the 200 IM at present. With out her within the combine within the 500 free, look ahead to swimmers like Emma Weyant and Rachel Stege–together with the remainder of Georgia’s mid-distance freestyle crew–to problem Cox.
After serving to set an American document within the 800 freestyle relay on the opening night time of swimming, Rex Maurer, Luke Hobson, and Coby Carrozza will go to work within the 500 freestyle together with teammate David Johnston. Maurer owns the American and SEC document on this occasion along with his 4:04.45 from midseason, which was an enormous drop for him. This occasion will certainly be crammed with Longhorns, however some extra acquainted faces goal to return to the ‘A’ ultimate, together with defending champion Jake Magahey. Control his teammate, Tomas Koski, who turned within the quickest 200 freestyle relay break up final night time with a 1:29.64.
Amid the record-setting relay swims, in some ways it was Florida’s Julian Smith who turned in the very best efficiency final night time. First, Smith swam the quickest 50 breaststroke break up in historical past, 22.15. Then, about half-hour later, he break up 1:29 on the Gators’ 800 freestyle relay. After being entered within the 200 IM/50 free, he’s gone for the IM. He sits #3 on the psych sheet this season after a lifetime finest 1:41.04 at midseason. Like his teammates within the 500 freestyle, he’ll have a handful of Longhorns to cope with together with Luca Urlando.
Talking of historic relay splits from final night time, Jordan Crooks turned in a 17.4 break up, the third-fastest efficiency in historical past. He’s been on fireplace in short-course (yards and meters) all season, and leads the way in which within the 50 freestyle. Between him (18.12) and Gui Caribe (18.76), the Vols personal the highest two occasions on the psych sheet. Josh Liendo, Chris Guiliano, and Jere Hribar are the opposite two swimmers entered sub-19 seconds, with Liendo, the defending NCAA champion on this occasion, checking in at 18.80. After becoming a member of the Longhorns at midseason, Guiliano is entered in 18.89 and Hribar sits at 18.92.
Tennessee owns the highest time on the psych sheet within the girls’s 50 freestyle as nicely, courtesy of dash star Camille Spink. The sophomore has regarded robust all season, and can look to proceed that development in protection of her 50 freestyle title from final season. She’s seeded 21.33, and Emma Sticklen, who had the following finest seed time at 21.64, has scratched in favor of the 200 IM. There are nonetheless 5 girls, together with Spink, entered with sub-22 occasions; two from Texas (Grace Cooper, Ava Longi), two from Tennessee (Spink, Jillian Crooks), and one from Alabama (Cadence Vincent).
Ladies’s 500 Freestyle — Prelims
- NCAA File: 4:24.06 — Katie Ledecky, Stanford (2017)
- SEC File: 4:30.68 — Jillian Cox, Texas (2024)
- SEC Championship File: 4:33.10 — Brittany Maclean, Georgia (2016)
- 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Minimize: 4:36.89
Prime 8:
LSU’s Grace Palmer had an enormous swim within the first warmth of the ladies’s 500 freestyle, pulling away from the sphere to win in a lifetime finest 4:44.24. Her earlier commonplace stood at 4:52.06 from the UGA Fall Invitational, making this a 7.82-second drop for her as she sailed below the NCAA ‘B’ lower.
Her time held up because the quickest of the morning till warmth three, received by Tennessee’s Lauren Wetherell in 4:43.86. The swim is a season-best for Wetherell and simply off the lifetime finest 4:43.45 she swam on the 2023 SEC Championships.
Males’s 500 Freestyle — Prelims
- NCAA File: 4:02.31 — Leon Marchand, Arizona State (2024)
- SEC File: 4:04.45 — Rex Maurer, Texas (2024)
- SEC Championship File: 4:06.32 — Kieran Smith, Florida (2020)
- 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Minimize: 4:10.64
Prime 8:
Ladies’s 200 IM — Prelims
- NCAA File: 1:48.37 — Kate Douglass, Virginia (2023)
- SEC File: 1:51.62 — Megan Small, Tennessee (2019)
- SEC Championship File: 1:51.62 — Megan Small, Tennessee (2019)
- 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Minimize: 1:53.66
Prime 8:
Males’s 200 IM — Prelims
- NCAA File: 1:36.34 — Leon Marchand, Arizona State (2023)
- SEC File: 1:38.13 — Caeleb Dressel, Florida (2018)
- SEC Championship File: 1:38.13 — Caeleb Dressel, Florida (2018)
- 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Minimize: 1:40.75
Prime 8:
Ladies’s 50 Freestyle — Prelims
- NCAA File: 20.37 — Gretchen Walsh, Virginia (2024)
- SEC File: 20.79 — Maggie MacNeil, LSU (2023)
- SEC Championship File: 20.98 — Maggie MacNeil, LSU (2023)
- 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Minimize: 21.58
Prime 8:
Males’s 50 Freestyle — Prelims
- NCAA File: 17.63 — Caeleb Dressel, Florida (2018)
- SEC File: 17.63 — Caeleb Dressel, Florida (2018)
- SEC Championship File: 17.93 — Jordan Crooks, Tennessee (2023)
- 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Minimize: 18.72
Prime 8:
