Gators Swimming and Diving

The Gators swimming and diving team added four more medals to their collection yesterday during day three of SEC Championships. After Thursday night, the Gators have 16 medals from the first three days. Gold, silver and bronze hardware Starting the finals session strong was sophomore and newcomer Emma Weyant swimming …

No. 5/6 Florida Swimming is dominating in their events thus far during the SEC Championship. In just two days of competition and 15 events so far, Florida is leading the SEC for both the men’s and women’s teams. They’ll continue onto day three of the championship Thursday at College Station, …

The SEC Swimming and Diving Championships are underway at Texas A&M and the first day of competition saw some great outings from Florida swimmers.  However, the men’s one meter and women’s three meter dive events started the event at preliminaries. No Florida divers made finals on the first day of …

The No. 5 Men’s and No. 6 Women’s Swimming and Diving teams are competing in the SEC Championship starting Tuesday. For five days, the Gator men’s team will look to capture their 11th-straight SEC title while the women’s team looks to win their first SEC Championship since 2009. The Gators …

The Florida men’s swimming and diving team racked up more SEC weekly honors this week. Tyler Watson was named SEC’s Men’s Swimmer of the Week. SEC’s Men’s Freshman of the Week was awarded to Edouard Fullum-Huot. Watson and Fullum-Huot were awarded conference honors following their impressive swims at the Auburn …

The Florida swim and dive team has their last chance to race this weekend before SEC Championships. On Friday, the Gators will send 20 athletes to compete until Sunday at the Auburn Invitational at the James E. Martin Aquatic Center. https://twitter.com/GatorsSwimDv/status/1620458902172364800?s=20&t=V12HuX_EJfXCOyrvLBtRyQ Last chance for Florida The Gators are coming off …

Friday, Gators head diving coach Bryan Gillooly announced that Ana Camyla Monroy signed to the 2023 women’s diving class. Monroy is from La Paz, Mexico, and is the first diver signee for the 2023 class. Monroy’s Accolades Most recently, Monroy competed in the 2022 World Junior Diving Championships in Montreal, …

The Gator swimming and diving team swept past their state rival on Friday and Saturday. The men’s and women’s swim team went to Ocala on Friday to compete at the Florida Aquatics Swimming and Training facility, while the diving team hosted the Seminoles at the O’Connell Center on both Friday …

Katie Ledecky continued her historical run on Wednesday evening, becoming the first woman swimmer to secure a spot at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials. The Florida Gators volunteer coach won the 800m free by over 23 seconds at the U.S. Open in Greensboro, North Carolina. The three-time Olympian clocked an …

To celebrate International Education Week, WRUF is publishing profiles of UF student-athletes all week. From the first time he swam competitively, Oskar Lindholm knew he wanted to come to America to swim in college. Swimming has been the Dane’s passion his whole life.  Why America? One of Lindholm’s biggest draws …