Tennessee Volunteers vs. Georgia Bulldogs
- Saturday, January 25, 2025
- Allan Jones Aquatic Middle, Knoxville, Tennessee
- Brief Course Yards (25 yards), School Twin Meet
- Full Meet Outcomes (PDF)
- Workforce Scores
- Ladies: #5 Tennessee 209 def. #13 Georgia 91
- Males: #9 Georgia 155 def. #7 Tennessee 144
A record-setting crowd of 1,215 in Knoxville, the biggest crowd for a house twin meet in Tennessee historical past, had been rewarded with electrical performances on Saturday on senior day, with the host Tennessee and the guests Georgia splitting the day.
The Tennessee girls dominated 209-91, which marks their Sixth-straight SEC twin meet win. They’ve gained 54 out of 61 occasions over their final 4 meets towards Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, and Kentucky, together with 14 out of 16 on Saturday. That’s a sixth-straight win within the sequence for the Tennessee girls.
The Georgia males, in the meantime, gained their second-straight over Tennessee 155-144, thanks partially to a brand new American, NCAA, and U.S. Open File within the 200 fly from Lucas Urlando.
Males’s Recap
Nearing the tip of a meandering collegiate profession that included a shoulder surgical procedure, which price him the 2022-2023 season, Georgia Fifth 12 months Luca Urlando is revving up for his senior NCAA Championship with the fastest-ever swim within the 200 yard fly.
Urlando swam 1:37.17, which broke Jack Conger‘s fastest-ever time of 1:37.35 from 2017 because the quickest swim within the historical past of the occasion.
He additionally gained the 100 fly in a nation-leading 43.62 and the 200 IM in 1:41.86. That 100 fly swim is a brand new faculty file and ranks him because the 4th-fastest within the historical past of the game.
High 5 All-Time, Males’s 100 Yard Fly
- Caeleb Dressel, Florida – 42.80 (2018 NCAAs)
- Josh Liendo, Florida – 43.07 (2024 NCAAs)
- Youssef Ramadan, Virginia Tech – 43.15 (2023 NCAAs)
- Luca Urlando, Georgia – 43.62 (2025 Twin Meet vs. Tennessee)
- Andrei Minakov, Stanford – 43.71 (2022 NCAAs)
That 100 fly win was an vital marker, as he was 1.6 seconds away from the earlier nationwide chief Jordan Crooks of Tennessee. Crooks was 45.21 on Saturday and swam 43.77 on the mid-season Tennessee Invite.
Whereas Urlando took the large head-to-head win over Crooks, the Volunteer dash star had a spotlight swim of his personal, that might be the headline efficiency of just about some other twin meet in historical past.
Crooks anchored Tennessee’s successful 200 medley relay in 17.66. That’s the 4th-fastest 50 free relay cut up in historical past, and the quickest ever in a daily season meet:
High 5 All-Time, Males’s 50 Free, Rolling Begin Relay Break up
50 Free Break up | |
1 | 17.30, Caeleb Dressel (2018 NCAAs) |
2 | 17.37, Caeleb Dressel (2018 NCAAs) |
3 | 17.57, Jordan Crooks (2024 Tenn Invite) |
3 | 17.66, Jordan Crooks (2025 Twin Meet vs. Georgia) |
4 | 17.71, Caeleb Dressel (2017 NCAAs) |
The Tennessee relay of Lamar Taylor (21.16), Kevin Houseman (23.43), Gui Caribe (19.65), and Crooks (17.66) dominated that relay in 1:21.90 – greater than two seconds forward of Georgia. That included a cut up from Caribe that was three-tenths higher than Urlando on Georgia’s relay.
The successful relay for Tennessee was solely .19 seconds slower than their mid-season invite time.
Tennessee, dwelling to among the finest dash teams within the nation, book-ended the day with one other dominant relay win – 2:46.77 within the 400 free relay. This time it was Taylor (42.65), Caribe (41.59), Nikoli Blackman (41.91), and Crooks (40.62) who mixed for a 2:46.77. Georgia was 2nd in 2:52.06.
The Volunteers continued dash dominance within the meet with an 18.44 win within the 50 free forward of Caribe’s 19.16; Tennessee completed 1-2-3 in that race.
Caribe then gained the 100 free to steer one other 1-2-3 end with a 42.16.
However it was in between, within the races 200 yards and longer, the place Georgia made hay that led to the win. That included a 1-2-3 end within the first particular person occasion of the day, the 1000 free, for instance, led by Jake Magahey (9:00.99).
Tomas Koski gained the 200 free in 1:31.80, which is simply .08 seconds shy of his mid-season lifetime finest; and Ruard van Renen swept the backstrokes in 45.22 and 1:41.80 respectively.
Different Males’s Meet Highlights:
- Kevin Houseman, a switch from Northwestern, gained the 100 breaststroke in 52.76, which is his finest time in Orange and white and strikes him to Tenth-best at school historical past.
- Tennessee’s Bennett Greene swept the diving occasions.
Ladies’s Recap
Within the girls’s meet, the Volunteers dominated, successful all however two occasions.
That included freshman McKenzie Siroky, an Olympic Trials finalist, stamping her identify on the varsity historical past books.
After serving to Tennessee to a 1-2 end within the 200 medley relay, she swam a finest time of 57.80 within the 100 breaststroke (the one swimmer underneath 1 minute) and a couple of:07.12 within the 200 breaststroke (successful by greater than six-and-a-half seconds).
That point within the 100 ranks her 2nd at school historical past. It additionally tied faculty file holder Mona McSharry because the quickest time by a freshman in Tennessee historical past.
High 5 All-Time, Tennessee Historical past, Ladies’s 100 Breaststroke
- Mona McSharry – 56.64 (2024)
- McKenzie Siroky – 57.80 (2025)
- Emilie Quick – 58.08 (2024)
- Molly Hannis – 58.22 (2013/2014)
- Nikol Popov – 58.24 (2019)
The highest 4 swimmers on that checklist are all Olympians, with McSharry successful bronze within the 100 breaststroke in Paris final summer time.
Her swim within the 200 breaststroke, the weaker of the 2 distances for her, strikes her to 4th in program historical past.
She wasn’t the one Tennessee swimmer to penetrate the varsity’s all-time prime ten. Within the 200 fly, freshman Ella Jansen completed third in a finest time of 1:54.55, which strikes her to eighth in program historical past.
The Canadian is new to yards swimming, and her three finest occasions this season are all from twin meets: 1:55.85 towards Louisville in October, 1:54.86 towards Alabama two weeks in the past, and now the 1:54.55. She was just one:56.16 on the group’s mid-season invite.
Teammates Sara Stotler (1:54.19) and fellow freshman Emily Brown (1:54.35) completed forward of her in that race as a part of a Volunteer point-max efficiency.
Jansen later gained the five hundred free in 4:39.06.
Within the 100 again, Josephine Fuller gained in 50.85, which is a season-best for her (51.06 on the Tennessee Invite). After Georgia’s Eboni McCarty completed 2nd in 52.27, it was one other Tennessee newcomer Lexi Stephens punching a finest time for third place in 52.44. That strikes her to Tenth within the faculty’s all-time rankings.
Fuller led the opposite sweep for Tennessee on Saturday. She swam 1:52.02 as a part of a 1-2-3-4 within the 200 again.
Georgia picked up a pair of wins in occasions the place they’re traditionally sturdy. Dune Coetzee gained the 1000 free in 9:37.97, putting greater than 15 seconds forward of the sphere. That’s a season-best for her by two seconds.
Camille Spink gained a triple for Tennessee, taking the 50 free (21.46), 100 free (46.94), and 200 free (1:42.78). All three swims
After successful the primary particular person occasion of the night time, Georgia additionally gained the final particular person occasion of the night time, the 200 IM. Ieva Maluka completed in 1:55.33, holding again a quartet of Volunteers who took the 2nd-through-Fifth place finishes.
Different Highlights:
- Moreover successful the 200 fly, Sara Stotler gained the 100 fly in 52.22.
- Tennessee’s Lynae Shorter swept the ladies’s diving occasions.