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)
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Groups: Alabama, Arkansas (girls), Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas*, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt (girls)
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Ladies’s 1650 Freestyle — Finals
Prime 8 Finishers:
Jillian Cox (TEX)- 15:30.33
Abby McCulloh (UGA)- 15:45.77
Kate Hurst (TEX)- 15:47.93
Emma Weyant (FLOR)- 15:53.23
Michaela Mattes (FLOR)- 16:02.53
Dune Coetzee (UGA)- 16:02.60
Rachel Stege (UGA)- 16:03.73
Madison Kolessar (SCAR)- 16:06.49
Jillian Cox, a redshirt freshman, continued to make noise at her first SECs by choosing up her second win—and championship file—of the meet. Her first win got here within the 500 free, the place with a 4:31.54 she additionally set a brand new SEC meet file. Tonight, she took down Brittany MacLean‘s meet file of 15:36.52, decreasing it by over 5 seconds to fifteen:30.33.
At her midseason invite, Cox swam an enormous 24 second PB of 15:34.66; she bettered that point tonight to keep up the #1 time within the nation this season and, with this new PB, is amongst one of many favorites to win this occasion at NCAAs subsequent month. It took a 15:37.74 to win NCAA’s in 2024—a time that Cox has now surpassed twice to this point. Cox’s affect will probably be essential for Texas, who appears to keep up their nationwide runner-up standing, because the Longhorns haven’t any returning scorers within the mile after the commencement of Erica Sullivan final 12 months. She took sixth in 15:54.82.
Cox break up 4:41.70/4:42.69/4:42.27 throughout the three 500s earlier than closing in 27.07. She was remarkably constant, by no means breaking the 28 barrier and averaging 28-lows at some point of the race. She was 3 seconds quicker than her earlier PB on simply the primary 500, which helped push her to a brand new private greatest.
All Time Prime Performers
Katie Ledecky, 15:01.41
Erica Sullivan, 15:23.81
Katie Hoff, 15:24.81
Leah Smith, 15:25.30
Katie Grimes, 15:26.17
Brittany MacLean, 15:27.84
Kate Ziegler, 15:29.15
Jillian Cox, 15:30.33
Lotte Friis, 15:30.84
Ashley Twichell, 15:30.95
With this swim, Cox strikes as much as eighth on the all time performers listing. The one lively NCAA swimmer forward of her is fellow freshman Katie Grimes, who swims for Virginia however didn’t swim the 1650 at ACCs and holds a season better of 15:53.40.
Cox was a member of USA’s 2023 World Championship staff within the 800 free, the place she positioned sixth in 8:19.73. Following her success, Cox, an Austin native, opted to take an Olympic hole 12 months, deferring her enrollment to Texas till fall of 2024 to coach for US Trials. At Trials final June, Cox got here in third in each the 400 free and 800 free.
