As Florida’s swimming and diving team prepares to host its final home meet of the season against Auburn’s No. 7 ranked men’s team and No. 10 ranked women’s team, Gators head coach Gregg Troy is focused on shaving some seconds off this weekend.
Caeleb Dressel is ready to break more records.
Led by three swimmers who won all four of their respective events, Florida’s No. 4 ranked men’s team and No. 11 ranked women’s team topped Florida State on Saturday in the O’Connell Center 188-109 and 200-93, respectively.
The Florida men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams finished in first place in its final meet of the fall regular season.
Florida’s swimming and diving teams are starting to hit their stride as their Fall schedule comes to a close.
This point in the season for UF’s swimming and diving teams would be considered halftime if it were a football game, according to coach Gregg Troy.
If you were to glance at UF’s swimming and diving roster, you could easily mistake it for an Olympic lineup, with athletes on the team representing 11 nations across four continents.
The story up to this point in the season for Florida’s swimming and diving teams has been their lack of consistency.
Entering the South Carolina meet, Florida’s swimming and diving teams had a lot to prove.
For the Gators, Friday’s loss might sting more than most.
After a disappointing performance in their dual-competition against Texas and Indiana, the Gators men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams are hoping to bounce back after an off-week, healthy and in peak racing condition.
The Florida men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams finished up their second consecutive road dual-meet on Saturday in Austin, Texas, where the teams took on the defending national champions Texas and Big-10 opponent, Indiana.
For the second consecutive week, both the UF men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams will be on the road competing in a dual-competition.
After the No. 5 Gators women’s swimming team routed the Vanderbilt Commodores with a 193-69 victory on Thursday, the team traveled to Minneapolis, Minnesota to meet with the UF men’s squad to take on No. 9 Minnesota on Saturday for a dual-competition.
On Thursday night, the Florida women's swimming team, without its divers, kicked of its first Southeastern Conference meet of the year in Nashville, taking on the Vanderbilt Commodores.
After both the UF men and women’s swimming and diving teams captured their sixth-straight All Florida Invitational titles on Sept. 20 in Gainesville, the teams will be tested with a pair of tough road meets against Minnesota and Vanderbilt.
The Gators were right at home at the top of the leaderboard last weekend.
The All Florida Invitational ended on Sunday afternoon at the O’Connell Center’s Natatorium in Gainesville after three days of competition for swimming and diving teams from across the state of Florida.
Florida’s men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams kicked off their 2015 season with the first day of the All Florida Invitational in Gainesville. The Gators host five teams: Florida Gulf Coast, Florida State, Miami, Nova Southeastern, and Towson University during the three-day meet. After the first day, the Gators had won 15 of the 17 preliminary races.
With their seasons starting on Friday at the All Florida Invitational in Gainesville, expectations are high for Florida’s men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams, led by head swimming coach Gregg Troy and diving coach Dale Schultz.
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