With the first meet of the season finished, Florida has a grueling schedule ahead.
After the three-week training cycle coming up for the women’s team, UF will travel to Columbus, Mo., along with the men’s team to face Missouri on Oct. 17.
Florida will then travel to compete against California — the 2011 and 2012 national champions — just two days later.
The rigorous road test is followed by a home meet against Georgia, which has won four straight Southeastern Conference championships and the 2013 NCAA title.
Coach Gregg Troy is focused on what needs to be fixed during the three-week interval.
“On the women’s side, we exposed some weaknesses,” Troy said.
“We’ve got some depth issues and some things we have to work on, but overall the competition was good. We won a lot of events. The women raced very tough.”
Troy was critical of the team’s turns at the walls and technical issues such as streamlines and breakouts.
“Early season when you’re training, those things we don’t spend quite as much time on,” Troy said.
“We’ve talked about it, but the rehearsal of them probably isn’t good. Some of it could be from fatigue, some of it could be early season. It will be highlighted even more as the level of competition steps up a notch.”
However, UF’s main focus is to get into shape at the right time.
“There’s nothing in swimming that really matters ‘till February and March,” Troy said, alluding to both the SEC and NCAA championships.
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Florida swimmers line up to begin the men’s open 400-meter individual medley during the Pinch A Penny All Florida Invitational on Sept. 28 in the O’Connell Center.
