Gators Swimming and Diving

As of last week, the Olympic trials are over for swimming. Up next, the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. It all started in Omaha, Nebraska where swimmers competed for a spot on their country’s Olympic team. After getting their feet wet in Olympic waters, thirteen different athletes will have …

As their name might suggest, the Florida Gators are good in the water. This past week at the Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha Nebraska the Gators, past present and future, stole the show. 23 former and current Gators swimmers competed in Omaha this week along with six Florida signees. Former …

The U.S. Olympic Swimming trials are underway in Omaha Nebraska and 10 Gators, past and present, have competed in preliminary rounds today.Gator great Ryan Lochte won his heat and turned in the fastest prelim time for the 200-meter individual medley this morning at 1:58.05. Lochte's time of 1:58.05 in the 200 IM …

Ryan Lochte will take a trip to Brazil later this summer for the 2016 Olympics in Rio. The former Gator swimmer has qualified for the U.S. Olympic 4x200m team finishing fourth with a time of 1:46.62. Lochte will compete in his fourth Olympic Games on the US 4×200 freestyle relay …

The Gators women’s swimming season officially came to a close near the end of March but Olympic hopeful Jessica Thielmann remains hard at work. The Gators senior phenom hails from Newcastle, England and looks to represent her country in 2016 at the summer games in Rio de Janeiro. The right to participate …

The Florida men’s swimming team recently finished third in the NCAA Championships.  The Gators won two national titles, broke eight school records, and had  37 All-American honors. Leading the way for the Gators was Co-2016 NCAA Swimmer of the Year Caeleb Dressel who won the 100-yard freestyle and the 50-yard freestyle. Dressel received seven …

The University of Florida men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams finished the regular 2016 season with a victory over Tennessee on Saturday in the Allen Joes Aquatic Center. The #3 men’s team posted a 185-115 win over the #12 ranked Tennessee team and the women ended the meet with …

The fourth ranked Gator  men’s swim team and 11th ranked women’s team are preparing for their final dual of the regular season at Tennessee this Saturday. Gator Head Coach Gregg Troy says the men’s team has some work to do after a close fall to Auburn last Saturday with a final …

The fall Florida swimming season slows down with a trip to Ohio for the Gators. The team will be swimming both long course and short course events at the Buckeye Invitational. The competition will last three days and Florida head coach Gregg Troy explains that the team will have a great …

Both the men’s and women’s swim teams fell to Georgia on Friday. The men lost 172.5 to 127.5 while the women lost 169 to 129. While the outcome wasn’t something that head coach Gregg Troy wanted, there were still some positives that came out of the meet. Troy explained that both Natalie Hinds …