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)
- Reside Outcomes
- Reside 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)
- Reside Recaps
Florida’s Julian Smith and Texas’ Emma Sticklen have been named the 2025 SEC Swimmers of the Championship on the conclusion of the meet on Feb. twenty second. Smith gained the boys’s 200 IM and 100 breaststroke, breaking the NCAA report by two-hundredths within the former. He additionally added a fifth-place end within the 100 freestyle.
Now a junior, Smith has been a constant pressure on the Gators relays for the previous two seasons, serving to the workforce set a number of NCAA data. His breakout this season has prolonged from his particular person occasions to the relays; he confirmed his kind early within the championships by dropping the quickest 50 breaststroke cut up in historical past (22.15), then following up with a 1:29.67 200 freestyle cut up an hour later.
Smith was additionally part of the NCAA record-setting 400 medley relay, teaming with Jonny Marshall, Josh Liendo, and Alex Painter. Contemporary off setting his NCAA report within the 100 breaststroke, Smith cut up a 48.95 100 breaststroke, the second-fastest in historical past. The one different man to interrupt 49 seconds is Leon Marchand (48.73). Lastly, Smith wrapped his championships by splitting 40.76 on Florida’s second-place 400 freestyle relay.
Emma Sticklen swept her particular person occasions at her first and final SEC Championships. She has been dropping time all season in a number of occasions. That pattern continued in Athens, as she swam lifetime bests within the 200 IM, 100 butterfly, and 200 fly en path to her three particular person gold medals. Sticklen clocked 1:52.42 to win the 200 IM, then shifted her focus to butterfly, her major stroke.
Sticklen set a Texas report of 49.40 to win the ladies’s 100 butterfly title, reducing her personal mark. She was dominant within the occasion as the one swimmer to interrupt 50 seconds on the championships, successful by a 1.56-second margin. She set a championship report in prelims of the 200 butterfly (1:50.01) earlier than firing off an SEC report of 1:49.17 that missed the NCAA report by a hundredth. It was her fifth sub-1:50 swim as she prolonged her lead because the swimmer with essentially the most sub-1:50 efforts of their profession.
Sticklen tied with Tennessee sophomore Camille Spink for the ladies’s Commissioner’s Trophy, awarded to the athletes who rating essentially the most particular person factors on the championships. Sticklen and Spink swept their particular person occasions, incomes 96 factors.
After successful the 50/100 freestyle as a freshman and taking silver within the 200 freestyle, Spink upgraded to gold in all three dash freestyle occasions. Spink is the primary SEC swimmer since 2007 to win the 50/100/200 freestyle on the SEC Championships. She achieved the feat with three lifetime bests, swimming 21.23/46.25/1:42.06.
Texas sophomore Rex Maurer gained the boys’s Commissioner’s Trophy. He earned 91 factors at his first SEC Championships, successful the five hundred freestyle and 400 IM. Maurer swam an SEC Championship report within the latter, clocking 3:35.61 and breaking Hugo Gonzalez’s mark from 2018 (3:35.76). On the ultimate day of the championships, Maurer earned bronze within the 1650 freestyle.
Within the diving nicely, Florida’s Camyla Monroy and LSU’s Carson Paul have been named the Divers of the Championships. Every gained one occasion, with Monroy claiming victory within the girls’s 1-meter on the opening evening of the championships. She added a pair of sixth-place finishes on the 3-meter and platform because the meet continued.
Paul gained the primary SEC title of his profession firstly of the championships, taking gold on the 3-meter. He was within the hunt for the platform title as nicely and earned the silver medal. He additionally took fifth on the 1-meter.
Julian Smith’s 2025 SECs Outcomes
- 200 IM: 1:39.38 (1st)
- 100 breaststroke: 49.51 (1st) NCAA Document
- 100 freestyle: 41.34 (sixth)
- 200 medley relay: Florida, 1:20.66 (2nd) — 22.15 50 breaststroke cut up (#1 all-time)
- 800 freestyle relay: Florida, 6:02.50 (1st) — 1:29.67 cut up (#6 all-time)
- 400 medley relay: Florida, 2:55.66 (1st) NCAA Document — 48.95 100 breaststroke cut up (#2 all-time)
- 400 freestyle relay: Florida, 2:43.60 (2nd) — 40.76 cut up
Emma Sticklen’s 2025 SECs Outcomes
- 200 IM: 1:52.42 (1st)
- 100 butterfly: 49.40 (1st)
- 200 butterfly: 1:49.17 (1st) SEC Document
- 200 medley relay: Texas, 1:33.84 (1st) — 23.38 backstroke lead-off
- 200 freestyle relay: Texas, 1:25.90 (1st) — 21.07 cut up
- 400 freestyle relay: Texas, 3:09.26 (2nd) — 47.55 cut up
Camille Spink’s 2025 SECs Outcomes
- 50 freestyle: 21.23 (1st)
- 200 freestyle: 1:42.06 (1st)
- 100 freestyle: 46.25 (1st)
- 800 freestyle relay: Tennessee, 6:49.83 (1st) — 1:41.28 cut up
- 200 freestyle relay: Tennessee, 1:26.49 (third) — 21.46 lead-off
- 400 medley relay: Tennessee, 3:25.18 (2nd) — 46.32 freestyle cut up
- 400 freestyle relay: Tennessee, 3:09.02 (1st) — 46.01 cut up
Rex Maurer’s 2025 SECs Outcomes
- 500 freestyle: 4:07.09 (1st)
- 400 IM: 3:35.61 (1st) SEC Championship Document
- 1650 freestyle: 14:32.78 (third)
- 800 freestyle relay: Texas, 6:03.24 (2nd) — 1:31.70 cut up
Camyla Monroy’s 2025 SECs Outcomes
- 1-meter diving: 350.45 (1st)
- 3-meter diving: 320.95 (sixth)
- Platform diving: 298.60 (sixth)
Carson Paul’s 2025 SECs Outcomes
- 3-meter diving: 438.80 (1st)
- 1-meter diving: 372.30 (fifth)
- Platform diving: 468.15 (2nd)
