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 ladies (2x); Florida males (12x)
- Dwell Outcomes
- Dwell Video: SEC Community+
- Championship Central
- Fan Information (Males)
- Fan Information (Ladies)
- Psych Sheets
- Groups: Alabama, Arkansas (ladies), Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas*, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt (ladies)
- Dwell Recaps
Day 5 Finals Warmth Sheet
Ladies’s 200 Butterfly — Remaining
- NCAA File: 1:49.16 — Alex Walsh, Virginia (2024)
SEC File: 1:49.54 — Emma Sticklen, Texas (2024)SEC Championship File: 1:50.01 — Emma Sticklen, Texas (2025)- NCAA ‘A’ Reduce: 1:52.47
Remaining:
- Emma Sticklen (TEX), 1:49.17 SEC File
- Campbell Stoll (TEX), 1:51.64
- Olivia Bray (TEX), 1:52.61
- Greta Pelzek (SCAR), 1:52.80
- Sara Stotler (TENN), 1:53.26
- Emily Brown (TENN), 1:53.31
- Sofia Sartori (LSU), 1:54.05
- Ella Jansen (TENN), 1:54.44
Emma Sticklen continued to shine on the 2025 SEC Championships in her signature occasion, the 200 butterfly. This morning, Sticklen swam an SEC Championship file, clocking 1:50.01 as she backed off through the last 50 yards. There was no backing off this night, as hse led the race from begin to end and set an SEC file of 1:49.17, only a hundredth off Alex Walsh’s NCAA file.
Sticklen was out in 23.79 and hit the 100-yard mark at 51.11, properly forward of the remainder of the sector. She break up 58.06 (28.70/29.36) on the again half of the race, persevering with to increase her lead. That is Sticklen’s third particular person occasion win at these championships, as she received the 200 IM and 100 butterfly earlier within the meet.
She’s now the third-fastest performer in historical past and the second-fastest NCAA swimmer all-time.
The Longhorns confirmed out within the 100 butterfly and so they had an occasion stronger efficiency within the 200 fly, which they’ve developed a status for during the last 4 years. Texas swept the rostrum on this race as Campbell Stoll received silver (1:51.64) and Olivia Bray earned bronze (1:52.61). Stoll’s swim is her second lifetime better of the day, enhancing on the 1:52.97 she swam in prelims. Coming into the meet, her greatest was 1:53.94.
Bray’s 1:52.61 marks a season-best for her by .54 seconds. She held off a late cost from South Carolina’s Greta Pelzek to safe the final spot on the rostrum. After setting a program file of 1:52.66 in prelims, Sara Stotler took fifth in 1:53.26.
Syd Craft misplaced the swim-off for the final lane within the ‘B’ last this morning, although she swam her second lifetime better of the day. She swam within the ‘C’ last finsihed18th in 1:56.21, her third lifetime better of the day.
Males’s 200 Butterfly — Remaining
- NCAA File: 1:37.17 — Luca Urlando, Georgia (2025)
- SEC File: 1:37.17 — Luca Urlando, Georgia (2025)
SEC Championship File: 1:38.86 — Luca Urlando, Georgia (2025)- NCAA ‘A’ Reduce: 1:40.05
Remaining:
- Luca Urlando (UGA), 1:37.18 CR
- Martin Espernberger (TENN), 1:39.69
- Jake Magahey (UGA), 1:39.91
- Bjoern Kammann (TENN), 1:40.18
- Ryan Merani (KY), 1:40.82
- Danny Schmidt (AUB), 1:41.27
- Ryan Branon Jr (TEX), 1:41.64
- Drew Hitchcock (UGA), 1:42.17
By two occasions of day 5 finals, the frequent thread is one hundredth. One occasion after Sticklen got here a hundredth from the NCAA file within the ladies’s 200 butterfly, Luca Urlando did the identical within the males’s 200 butterfly.
Urlando was flirting along with his file line for the complete race. He opened the race forward of his tempo, delivering 21.96, however fell off the tempo barely on the midway factors (46.36). He was again forward of the road with 50 yards to go together with a 24.60 break up on the third 50, however the last 50 of his January tempo (26.06) simply bought the higher of him on the ultimate contact.
Nonetheless, the swim is a championship file for Urlando, enhancing on the 1:38.86 he swam this morning. He additionally now owns the 2 quickest swims in occasion historical past.
Martin Espernberger, final 12 months’s runner-up, bought again onto the rostrum this 12 months, incomes the silver medal. He swam 1:39.69, pulling forward of Georgia’s Jake Magahey, who was a hundredth forward of him with 50 yards remaining. Espernberger’s time is a season-best and just some tenths from his lifetime better of 1:39.34.
Magahey received bronze for the second-straight 12 months. He broke 1:40 for the primary time in his profession to earn his journey to the rostrum at these championships, swimming 1:39.91. His earlier lifetime greatest stood at 1:40.07 from earlier this season. This was a robust occasion for the hosts, as Georgia held their seeds from prelims and took 1st-Third-Eighth. Freshman Drew Hitchcock swam 1:42.17 after swimming a lifetime greatest 1:41.09 in prelims. In the meantime, Tennessee went 2-4 with Espernberger Bjoern Kammann (1:40.18).
Ladies’s 100 Backstroke — Remaining
- NCAA File: 48.10 — Gretchen Walsh, Virginia (2024)
SEC File: 49.93 — Bella Sims, Florida (2024)SEC Championship File: 50.02 — Rhyan White, Alabama (2020)- NCAA ‘A’ Reduce: 50.66
Remaining:
- Bella Sims (FLOR), 49.20 SEC File
- Josephine Fuller (TENN), 50.05
- Emily Jones (BAMA), 50.92
- Berit Berglund (TEX), 51.02
- Lora Komoroczy (AUB), 51.21
- Eboni McCarty (UGA), 51.34
- Catie Choate (FLOR), 51.58
- Zoe Carlos-Bloc (LSU), 51.60
Bella Sims first took over the SEC file within the ladies’s 100 backstroke at mid-season, breaking 50 seconds for the primary time in her profession with a 49.93. She torched that swim in tonight’s championship last, profitable her first SEC title of the meet in 49.20.
The swim is a .73 second drop for Sims and catapults her from eleventh as much as fifth-fastest performer in historical past on this occasion. Sims joked after the race that she’s hoping this swim will get her into the Florida dash group.
Josephine Fuller had the lead on the first 25 and although Sims used her robust underwaters to push forward of her and win by nearly a second, Fuller repeated because the SEC runner-up with a lifetime greatest of fifty.05. She continues to method the 50-second barrier herself as she sliced .15 seconds off her greatest with this swim.
Alabama’s Emily Jones dropped .76 seconds from her prelims swim to win bronze in 50.92, rounding out the swimmers who broke 51 seconds on this last. Her lifetime greatest stands at 50.75 from the UGA Fall Invitational in November.
Males’s 100 Backstroke — Remaining
- NCAA File: 43.35 — Luca Urlando, Georgia (2022)
- SEC File: 43.35 — Luca Urlando, Georgia (2022)
SEC Championship File: 44.10 — Zane Waddell, Alabama (2020)- NCAA ‘A’ Reduce: 44.48
Remaining:
- Jonny Marshall (FLOR), 43.73 CR
- Hubert Kos (TEX), 44.03
- Will Modglin (TEX), 44.22
- Harrison Lierz (TENN), 44.87
- Nate Stoffle (AUB), 45.07
- Ruard van Renen (UGA), 45.13
- Scotty Buff (FLOR), 45.37
- Kyle Peck (TEX), 45.49
Title defended. Sophomore Jonny Marshall backed up his upset win as a freshman by profitable in opposition to a stacked discipline that included Will Modglin and Hubert Kos. He bought in on the record-breaking occasion that’s been occurring this session as properly by breaking 44 seconds for the primary time in his profession with a 43.73.
Marshall held the lead on the 50-yard mark, splitting 20.81 to the toes. He got here dwelling in 22.92 to turn out to be the seventh-fastest performer in occasion historical past, per the USA Swimming database.
Kos and Modglin, two of the three Longhorns within the ‘A’ last, completed second and third. Kos had an enormous underwater off the ultimate flip and out-split Marshall on the again half of the race with a 22.77. However, he ran out of room to chase down the Gator, and earned silver in a season-best 44.03.
Earlier than this occasion, Modglin was the one swimmer within the NCAA that had damaged 44 seconds this season. A sophomore himself, he swam a lifetime greatest 43.91 on the Texas Corridor of Fame Invitational. On this last, Modglin improved on his time from prelims with a 44.22.
The highest three swimmers pulled away from the remainder of the sector, as Harrison Lierz maintained his fourth place from prelims with a 44.87. The time is a lifetime greatest for Lierz, breaking the 44.98 he swam main off the 400 medley relay ultimately 12 months’s SECs.
Ladies’s 100 Breaststroke — Remaining
- NCAA File: 55.73 — Lilly King, Indiana (2019)
- SEC File: 56.64 — Mona McSharry, Tennessee (2024)
- SEC Championship File: 57.06 — Mona McSharry, Tennessee (2024)
- NCAA ‘A’ Reduce: 58.01
Remaining:
- Mona McSharry (TENN), 57.26
- McKenzie Siroky (TENN), 57.27
- Anita Bottazzo (FLOR), 57.65
- Piper Enge (TEX), 57.86
- Abby Arens (TEX), 58.49
- Avery Wiseman (BAMA), 58.51
- Molly Mayne (FLOR), 58.90
- Stasya Makarova (AUB), 59.68
From the Olympics to the SEC Championships, Mona McSharry has confirmed during the last 12 months that she is aware of the way to get her palms on the wall when it issues. She edged out her freshman teammate McKenzie Siroky by a hundredth to win her fourth-straight ladies’s 100 breaststroke SEC title, 57.26 to 57.27. She turns into simply the second girl to four-peat on this occasion on the SEC Championships, becoming a member of Kristy Kowal, per the ESPN broadcast.
Siroky was out first on the 50, delivering 26.65 to McSharry’s 26.93. McSharry break up 30.33 over the again half of the race to win her title. The pair have been first and second after prelims and so they maintained their grip on the high of this occasion, as Siroky received silver. Her time is her second lifetime better of the day after she clocked 57.41 this morning.
Anita Bottazzo and Piper Enge maintained their locations from prelims as each dropped a few half-second from their morning swims. Bottazzo collected the bronze medal in 57.65. She’s been as quick as 57.49 this season. Enge, a Texas freshman, swam her lifetime greatest 57.69 final month on the Eddie Reese Invitational.
Avery Wiseman, final 12 months’s runner-up, positioned sixth in 58.51.
Males’s 100 Breaststroke — Remaining
NCAA File: 49.53 — Liam Bell, California (2024)SEC File: 49.98 — Julian Smith, Florida (2024)SEC Championship File: 50.03 — Caeleb Dressel, Florida (2018)- NCAA ‘A’ Reduce: 51.02
Remaining:
- Julian Smith (FLOR), 49.51 NCAA File
- Nate Germonprez (TEX), 50.14
- Aleksas Savickas (FLOR), 51.15
- Kaique Alves (BAMA), 51.37
- Mitch Mason (LSU), 51.55
- Alex Sanchez (TAMU), 51.87
- Volodymyr Lisovets (LSU), 51.89
- Kristian Pitshugin (UGA), 52.17
At the beginning of the session, we had back-to-back occasions the place swimmers missed the NCAA file by a hundredth. However now, one’s gone down by two-hundredths, as Julian Smith broke the NCAA file Liam Bell swam to win the 2024 NCAA Championship title with a 49.51.
On the primary night time of this championship, Smith overtook Bell’s quickest 50 breaststroke break up, firing off a 22.15 on Florida’s 200 medley relay. So, it was no shock to see Smith begin out quick; he opened the race in a blistering 22.96. Smith was behind the NCAA file tempo on the last flip, however he surged on the ultimate 25. His last 50 break up was a 26.55 as he bought his palms on the wall and break the NCAA, American, U.S. Open, SEC, and Championship data. Smith broke 50 seconds for the primary time earlier this season, when he swam 49.98 at midseason to erase Caeleb Dressel‘s SEC file.
Nate Germonprez neared the 50-second barrier as he posted a 50.14 for silver. The swim marks a Texas file for the sophomore, enhancing on the 50.39 mark he set on the Texas Corridor of Fame Invite. He secured second by over a second as final 12 months’s champion, Aleksas Savickas, took bronze in 51.15. Savickas was simply .14 seconds from his 2024 title profitable time as he helped earn a 1-3 end for the Gators.
Ladies’s Platform Diving — Remaining
- SEC File: 356.10 — Victoria Lamp, Tennessee (2014)
- SEC Championship File (5 dives): 356.10 — Victoria Lamp, Tennessee (2014)
Remaining:
- Montserrat Lavenant (LSU), 327.80
- Alejandra Estudillo Torres (TEX), 318.10
- Maria Sanchez Moreno (ARK), 304.35
- Else Praasterink (TAMU), 303.50
- Emily Halifax (AUB), 303.40
- Camyla Monroy (FLOR), 298.60
- Taylor Fox (TEX), 259.00
- Chloe Brothers (AUB), 250.05
Montserrat Lavenant is again on high within the ladies’s platform diving occasion. The previous champion earned her second profession SEC title within the occasion with 327.80 factors. Texas’ Alejandra Estudillo Torres got here in as the highest qualifier after prelims. She missed her opening dive however was capable of rally and had a number of robust dives, significantly within the second half of the competitors, to tug herself again onto the rostrum and earn silver with 318.10 factors.
After a number of athletes missed dives in spherical 4, Maria Sanchez Moreno narrowly earned bronze in 304.35 factors. She completed .85 factors forward of Else Praasterink, who transferred to Texas A&M from Louisville this season. Final 12 months’s champion Camyla Monroy earned sixth place with 298.60 factors. She received the 1-meter board earlier this week.
Ladies’s 400 Medley Relay — Remaining
- NCAA File: 3:21.01 — Virginia (Walsh, Walsh, Cuomo, Douglass) (2023)
SEC File: 3:24.92 — Tennessee (Fuller, McSharry, Douthwright, Spink) (2024)SEC Championship File: 3:24.92 — Tennessee (Fuller, McSharry, Douthwright, Spink) (2024)- NCAA ‘A’ Reduce: 3:30.89
Remaining:
- Florida (Sims, Bottazzo, Peoples, Cronk) — 3:24.78 SEC File
- Tennessee (Fuller, McSharry, Stotler, Spink) — 3:25.18
- LSU (Carlos-Broc, Lyn, Sartori, Barnes) — 3:30.73
- South Carolina — 3:30.81
- Alabama — 3:30.97
- Texas A&M — 3:31.08
- Auburn — 3:31.23
- Georgia — 3:33.00
- Kentucky — 3:33.34
- Missouri — 3:33.49
- Vanderbilt — 3:37.32
- Arkansas — 3:38.03
DQ: Texas
Hope you weren’t too connected to that girls’s 100 backstroke file. About an hour after setting the SEC file at 49.20 through the ladies’s 100 backstroke last, Sims torched the file she simply set main off the 400 medley relay. She crushed a 48.97 and moved as much as third-fastest performer all-time within the occasion after beginning the day in eleventh. Sims started the season with a lifetime better of 50-point and is now the third girl to interrupt 49 seconds, becoming a member of Gretchen Walsh and Katharine Berkoff.
Sims lead-off gave Florida an enormous result in work with which they by no means gave up. After Sims, Bottazzo swam 57.55 and Peoples a 50.60. Micayla Cronk anchored in 47.66, holding off a charging Camille Spink on Tennessee’s relay. The Vols have been capable of upset Florida final 12 months in an SEC file time, however ran out of room to catch the Gators this 12 months. Florida’s profitable time of three:24.78 broke the SEC file that Tennessee swam final 12 months.
Fuller (50.41), McSharry (56.99), Stotler (51.46), and Spink (46.32) earned silver with a 3:25.18. Texas appeared to put third however have been disqualified, shifting LSU into bronze medal place as they swam 3:30.73.
South Carolina received the opening warmth in 3:30.81 and celebrated arduous as they secured an NCAA ‘A’ minimize by eight-hundredths.
Males’s 400 Medley Relay — Remaining
NCAA File: 2:57.32 — Arizona State (Kos, Marchand, Kharun, Kulow) (2024)SEC File: 2:58.32 — Florida (Chaney, Hillis, Liendo, McDuff) (2023)SEC Championship File: 2:59.48 — Florida (Chaney, Hillis, Liendo, McDuff) (2023)- NCAA ‘A’ Reduce: 3:04.96
Remaining:
- Florida (Marshall, Smith, Liendo, Painter), 2:55.66 NCAA File
- Tennessee (Lierz, Houseman, Crooks, Caribe), 2:59.69
- Texas (Modlin, Germonprez, Kos, Hobson), 3:00.97
- Texas A&M, 3:03.78
- LSU, 3:04.03
- Alabama, 3:04.50
- Auburn, 3:05.44
- Kentucky, 3:06.25
- Missouri, 3:06.60
- South Carolina, 3:06.70
DQ: Georgia
One other NCAA file damaged tonight, as Florida smashed the 400 medley relay file by 1.66 seconds. Arizona State swam the previous file, a 2:57.32, to win on the 2024 NCAA Championships.
The primary three legs of the relay are all SECs champions of their respective 100 of stroke, as Marshall and Smith claimed their titles earlier within the session. After swimming 43.73 to win his title in a championship file, Marshall backed the time up with a 43.91. His effort gave Florida the lead by nearly a second, as Modglin’s 44.75 was the following quickest lead-off.
Marshall turned issues over to Smith, who simply broke the NCAA file within the 100 breaststroke. He’s been on hearth all week and that didn’t cease right here as he break up 48.95 on the breaststroke leg. He’s the second swimmer to interrupt 49 seconds on a 100 breaststroke break up after Leon Marchand’s 48.73. Then, it was Josh Liendo’s flip. He didn’t race individually right now and he took full benefit of that relaxation, blazing a 42.12 and destroying the quickest break up of all-time, which he set at this meet final 12 months in 42.77. This break up was .65 seconds sooner.
Freshman Alex Painter completed the race off for the Gators with a 40.68 break up. Painter has been on hearth within the dash freestyles this week, delivering a number of lifetime bests. After Adam Chaney and Macguire McDuff departed this system, it seemed just like the Gator relays have been in deep trouble however Florida has pushed again on that narrative this week by profitable the 800 freestyle relay and now destroying the NCAA file within the 400 medley relay.
The Gators received by 4.03 seconds as Tennesse’s Lierz (44.76), Kevin Houseman (50.99), Jordan Crooks (43.56), and Gui Caribe (40.38) swam 2:59.69, breaking their program file and bringing it sub-3:00 for the primary time.
Texas rounded out the rostrum in third as Modglin (44.75), Germonprez (50.31), Kos (44.35), and Luke Hobson (41.56) clocked 3:00.97, including from the staff’s season-best by nine-tenths.
There was additionally a DQ on this relay, as Georgia was disqualified for a -.05 response time on one in every of their flying begins.
Workforce Scores By Day 5
Ladies:
- Texas — 1157.5
- Tennessee — 854
- Florida — 834
- Georgia — 538.5
- Texas A&M — 503
- South Carolina — 494
- LSU — 470
- Alabama — 459
- Auburn — 407.5
- Missouri — 288.5
- Kentucky — 249
- Arkansas — 210
- Vanderbilt — 135
Males:
- Texas — 1091
- Florida — 929
- Tennessee — 713.5
- Georgia — 642.5
- Texas A&M — 503
- Auburn — 427.5
- Alabama — 425
- LSU — 413
- Kentucky — 320.5
- Missouri — 251
- South Carolina — 250
