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On the fifth day of the 2017 FINA World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, rising Gator senior Caeleb Dressel earned his third gold medal by winning the men’s 100 meter freestyle event.  In all, five Gator swimmers participated in events on Thursday, with Dressel and Liliana Szilagyi swimming in a final. …

UF’s men’s swimming & diving team celebrated their fifth consecutive title at the SEC Championship Saturday night.The Gators ended the night scoring 1,271.5 points over the five-day meet. The Gators have won 38 men’s conference title in program history. https://twitter.com/GatorsSwimDv/status/833195143717089280 Head Coach, Gregg Troy, says it was a total team …

Even though swimming season is almost over, the SEC is hardly ready to dry off. The 2017 SEC Championship features high scores, smashed records, and former Olympians going for college gold. The first three days have concluded and some teams have proven dominant. But, close scores leading into the final …

The Florida men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams begin the post season today in Knoxville, Tennessee with the SEC Championships. For the next five days the sixth-ranked men’s team looks to capture its sixth consecutive conference title and the 19th-ranked women’s team will look to improve on its sixth place finish from 2016. https://twitter.com/GatorsSwimDv/status/829004262285905920 …

Even though the 2016 Summer Olympic Games have been finished for almost a month now, that doesn’t stop the talk about the success Gator athletes had in Rio. In fact, 15 swimmers at this year’s Olympic Games have connections to the Orange and Blue, whether they are current or former Gators. They …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …