SEC Championships, Night time 1: Florida Males Open With American File in 200 Medley Relay
The College of Florida males’s group opened the 2024 SEC Championships with an American file within the males’s 200 medley relay.
The all-American foursome of Adam Chaney, Julian Smith, Scotty Buff and Macguire McDuff went 1:21.66, its quickest of the season by greater than 1.3 seconds. It displaces the American mark of 1:21.86, set only a half-hour earlier by NC State on the ACC Championships. That had downed the mark of 1:21.88 that had held since 2018 within the fingers of Cal’s Daniel Carr, Connor Hoppe, Justin Lynch and Ryan Hoffer.
It’s a formidable begin for the Gators at Auburn College’s James E. Martin Aquatics Heart, vying to win the twelfth straight title on the boys’s facet. Different motion from the primary night time:
Ladies’s 200 Medley Relay
Florida’s bid to repeat as the ladies’s champ acquired off to a fast begin with a win within the 200 medley relay. The foursome of Aris Runnels, Molly Mayne, Olivia Peoples and Micayla Cronk went 1:34.25. It’s .07 off the perfect time of the season however nonetheless good for the win. They had been .01 off the pool file set by Cal in 2012.
Tennessee completed second, with Josephine Fuller, Mona McSharry, Sara Stotler and Katie Mack going 1:34.89. Third was Auburn in 1:35.25, adopted by Alabama and Georgia. Texas A&M was sixth in 1:35.87, all underneath the NCAA An ordinary.
Males’s 200 Medley Relay
Florida’s time of 1:21.66 is the pool file, wiping away greater than 1.5 seconds from the mark set in 2020 by Shaine Casas and Texas A&M. It’s .17 off the SEC meet file, although, that belonging to Tennessee final 12 months.
The Volunteers had been second this time round in 1:21.82. Bjorn Kammann, Flynn Crisci, Jordan Crooks and Gui Caribe comprised that squad, solely Crisci not on final 12 months’s record-setters. Auburn completed third in 1:22.74, whereas Georgia and Missouri adopted in 1:23-lows to get underneath the 1:23.71 A minimize. LSU later added an A minimize in a time trial at 1:23.37, Jere Hribar anchoring in 18.15.
Males’s 1-Meter Diving
In the one scored occasion from Monday, Texas A&M’s Victor Povzner led a 1-2 with gold. The senior scored 403.05 factors. It’s the second time he’s received convention gold and his third medal total. Povzner scored 375.50 to win the occasion final 12 months.
Rhett Hensley went from eighth in prelims to a career-best 381.60 to earn silver. Teammate Takuto Endo was fourth for the second straight 12 months. Hensley completed third final 12 months.
The Florida males bolstered their level whole with bronze from Conor Gesing, who scored 371.30 factors. Christopher Donald was fifth forward of Tennessee’s Bryden Hattie, final 12 months’s runner-up.
Ladies’s 3-Meter Diving
Final 12 months’s SEC champ on platform added slightly spring to her step this 12 months.
Montserrat Gutierrez Lavenant scored 359.70 factors to edge Camyla Monroy by two factors to the title. It’s the Mexican grad scholar’s second profession convention gold. She’s certified for NCAAs 5 occasions in her storied profession. She wanted to outbattle a freshman for this one, although, Monroy staying shut and scoring 357.60.
Third place was Kamryn Wong of Missouri with a rating of 348.85 factors. Gutierrez’s teammate, Helle Tuxen, was fifth. Auburn scored in fourth and fifth, with Kyleigh Kidd and Ashlynn Sullivan, respectively.
Ladies’s 800 Free Relay
Make it two-for-two for Florida on the ladies’s facet, the quartet of Bella Sims, Isabel Ivey, Emma Weyant and Micayla Cronk dominating the sector in 6:49.65 to win gold.
The time is loopy quick, inside the SEC and Florida context. It’s a meet file by almost three seconds (6:52.54, from Georgia in 2013). It’s a convention file by greater than two seconds (2016 Georgia’s 6:51.80). It’s greater than seven seconds faster than the 6:57.11 that the Gators used to win final 12 months, with Weyant and Cronk. Florida had a group (Ivey, Sims, Cronk and Ekaterina Nikonova) trim this system file from 2013 to six:56.49 final 12 months. This one is 6.98 seconds faster than the outdated mark!
Sims began it off by blasting the convention file within the 200 free. She went 1:40.90, downing the file set in 2012 by Megan Romano of Georgia at 1:41.21. Sims entered because the second seed in that particular person occasion, which will likely be contested Thursday. Her season-best of 1:43.04 was .01 behind Ivey, who went 1:42.19 on the second leg to open up the lead. Each are underneath the profitable time of the 200 free final 12 months, by Brooklyn Douthwright of Tennessee in 1:42.64.
Tennessee completed second, Douthwright main off in 1:43.06. She was joined by Camille Spink (1:41.56), Julia Mrozinski and Josephine Fuller to go 6:53.43.
Georgia (6:57.10) and Texas A&M (6:59.96) added NCAA A cuts. Chloe Stepanek’s 1:42.87 off the entrance for the Aggies makes her a medal contender within the 200 free.
Males’s 800 free relay
The Florida males had been at it once more, this time with slightly extra drama. Jake Mitchell outsplit Georgia’s Bradley Dunham coming house as Florida lowered the SEC meet file with a time of 6:06.36 to win by .43 ticks over the Bulldogs.
Florida’s Macguire McDuff (1:31.62), Josh Liendo (1:31.45), Julian Smith (1:32.10) and Mitchell (1:31.19) downed the meet mark of 6:08.00 set by the Gators in 2022. Additionally they downed an Auburn pool file the Gators had set in 2020.
This one was a battle. Georgia went 6:06.79. Thomas Koski had them behind after the primary leg at 1:32.12, however Jake Magahey’s 1:30.96 nudged them into the lead. Zach Hils adopted with a 1:32.23, and Dunham utilized stress at 1:31.48, nevertheless it was shy of the win.
Auburn was third in 6:11.03. Fourth got here Alabama in 6:11.27, the ultimate A minimize of the day. Charlie Hawke went 1:30.75 to steer off that squad.
