SEC Championships, Day 3 Prelims: Josh Liendo Rips 100 Fly Meet Record 43.89
Finishing third in the 50 freestyle Wednesday night at the SEC Championships may not have sat well with Josh Liendo. If so, the Florida sophomore responded in fine fashion Thursday morning.
Liendo set the meet record in the men’s 100 butterfly, ripping a time of 43.89 seconds to lead the way in prelims. He took down the mark of 44.04 seconds set last year by his frequent conference foil, 50 free champ Jordan Crooks of Tennessee. Crooks scratched the 100 fly, opting instead for the 200 free.
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Women’s Scores (Through Event 17)
- Tennessee 475
- Florida 440
- Georgia 363
- Auburn 312.5
- Texas A&M 256.5
- Alabama 250.5
- LSU 230
- South Carolina 173
- Kentucky 173
- Missouri 168.5
- Arkansas 132
- Vanderbilt 94
Men’s Scores (Through Event 17)
- Florida 622
- Texas A&M 468
- Tennessee 392
- Georgia 381
- Auburn 373
- LSU 266
- Kentucky 191
- Alabama 187
- South Carolina 183
- Missouri 176
Women’s 400 individual medley
Fresh off her win in the 500 free, Emma Weyant is hunting more gold. The Florida junior is well positioned in the 400 IM, setting a prelims time of 4:04.62 that is tops by more than 3.5 seconds. She has a 4:03.65 to her name this season.
Florida could pounce in the team standings here. Zoe Dixon is the second seed in 4:08.07. Anna Auld is in the A final in fifth, with Julia Podkoscielny seventh. Tennessee doesn’t have an A finalist.
Hannah Ownbey of Auburn is the only other swimmer under 4:10, in third in 4:09.79.
Event 18 Women 400 Yard IM
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NCAA: N 3:54.60 3/16/2018 Ella Eastin, Stanford
SEC: S 3:58.23 3/22/2022 Sydney Pickrem, Texas A&M
SEC Meet: M 3:58.35 2012 Elizabeth Beisel, Florida
Pool: P 3:56.54 3/16/2012 Katinka Hosszu, Southern Cal
Name Year School Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Weyant, Emma J JR FLOR-FL 4:03.65 4:04.62
r:+0.74 26.63 56.27 (29.64)
1:27.53 (31.26) 1:58.06 (30.53)
2:32.63 (34.57) 3:07.54 (34.91)
3:36.79 (29.25) 4:04.62 (27.83)
2 Dixon, Zoe A SO FLOR-FL 4:06.25 4:08.07
r:+0.63 26.04 55.44 (29.40)
1:26.53 (31.09) 1:56.61 (30.08)
2:32.57 (35.96) 3:08.47 (35.90)
3:39.00 (30.53) 4:08.07 (29.07)
3 Ownbey, Hannah C SR Auburn-SE 4:08.55 4:09.79
r:+0.67 26.23 56.55 (30.32)
1:28.08 (31.53) 1:59.40 (31.32)
2:34.82 (35.42) 3:10.90 (36.08)
3:40.83 (29.93) 4:09.79 (28.96)
4 Goerigk, Giulia SO Texas A&M-GU 4:07.91 4:10.18
r:+0.73 26.97 58.00 (31.03)
1:30.06 (32.06) 2:01.57 (31.51)
2:36.17 (34.60) 3:11.77 (35.60)
3:41.32 (29.55) 4:10.18 (28.86)
5 Auld, Anna R JR FLOR-FL 4:12.24 4:11.65
r:+0.67 27.05 57.65 (30.60)
1:30.46 (32.81) 2:02.60 (32.14)
2:38.20 (35.60) 3:13.51 (35.31)
3:43.40 (29.89) 4:11.65 (28.25)
6 Sanders, Sydney M FR BAMA-SE 4:17.16 4:12.93
r:+0.74 27.66 58.46 (30.80)
1:31.27 (32.81) 2:03.73 (32.46)
2:38.50 (34.77) 3:14.11 (35.61)
3:43.98 (29.87) 4:12.93 (28.95)
7 Podkoscielny, Julia P FR FLOR-FL 4:10.32 4:14.34
r:+0.65 26.68 58.13 (31.45)
1:31.16 (33.03) 2:02.19 (31.03)
2:38.44 (36.25) 3:15.13 (36.69)
3:45.60 (30.47) 4:14.34 (28.74)
8 Rice, Anna Havens SR UK Wildcats-KY 4:17.09 4:14.44
r:+0.67 26.88 57.75 (30.87)
1:30.45 (32.70) 2:02.71 (32.26)
2:38.82 (36.11) 3:15.66 (36.84)
3:46.12 (30.46) 4:14.44 (28.32)
Men’s 400 individual medley
Ian Grum grabbed the top seed for Georgia in prelims, but the race appears wide open, with four swimmers clustered within 1.17 seconds.
Grum led the way in 3:40.48, just .07 off his season-best. Second was Florida’s Giovanni Linscheer in 3:40.63, while 500 free champ Jake Magahey is third in 3:41.59. All eyes will be on 200 IM champ Baylor Nelson, though, the Texas A&M sophomore fourth in 3:41.65.
Florida has two A finalists, with Mason Laur sixth. But with the ninth, 10th and 13th seeds, the Gators just missed out on a bigger haul.
Event 19 Men 400 Yard IM
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NCAA: N 3:28.82 3/24/2023 Leon Marchand, Arizona State
SEC: S 3:33.42 3/24/2017 Chase Kalisz, Georgia
SEC Meet: M 3:35.76 2018 Hugo Gonzalez, Auburn
Pool: P 3:37.31 2/20/2020 Kieran Smith, Florida
Name Year School Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Grum, Ian P GS UGA-GA 3:40.41 3:40.48
r:+0.67 22.78 49.19 (26.41)
1:16.64 (27.45) 1:43.68 (27.04)
2:15.58 (31.90) 2:48.41 (32.83)
3:15.09 (26.68) 3:40.48 (25.39)
2 Linscheer, Giovanni R SO FLOR-FL 3:42.60 3:40.63
r:+0.71 23.92 51.05 (27.13)
1:19.74 (28.69) 1:47.41 (27.67)
2:18.24 (30.83) 2:49.37 (31.13)
3:15.66 (26.29) 3:40.63 (24.97)
3 Magahey, Jake M SR UGA-GA 3:42.76 3:41.59
r:+0.70 23.11 49.43 (26.32)
1:18.38 (28.95) 1:46.19 (27.81)
2:17.69 (31.50) 2:49.79 (32.10)
3:16.11 (26.32) 3:41.59 (25.48)
4 Nelson, Baylor M SO Texas A&M-GU 3:38.33 3:41.65
r:+0.63 23.30 50.10 (26.80)
1:18.68 (28.58) 1:45.91 (27.23)
2:17.08 (31.17) 2:48.84 (31.76)
3:16.03 (27.19) 3:41.65 (25.62)
5 Driggers, Landon SO Tennessee-SE 3:43.96 3:42.03
r:+0.72 24.36 52.09 (27.73)
1:19.73 (27.64) 1:46.79 (27.06)
2:18.80 (32.01) 2:50.71 (31.91)
3:17.13 (26.42) 3:42.03 (24.90)
6 Laur, Mason A JR FLOR-FL 3:41.16 3:42.07
r:+0.64 23.04 49.15 (26.11)
1:17.86 (28.71) 1:45.62 (27.76)
2:17.08 (31.46) 2:49.82 (32.74)
3:16.72 (26.90) 3:42.07 (25.35)
7 Rathle, Jacques L JR Auburn-SE 3:44.68 3:42.30
r:+0.65 23.48 50.76 (27.28)
1:19.99 (29.23) 1:48.51 (28.52)
2:19.03 (30.52) 2:50.14 (31.11)
3:16.45 (26.31) 3:42.30 (25.85)
8 Schmidt, Danny SO Auburn-SE 3:42.33 3:44.12
r:+0.63 23.50 50.59 (27.09)
1:19.18 (28.59) 1:46.79 (27.61)
2:18.59 (31.80) 2:51.26 (32.67)
3:18.35 (27.09) 3:44.12 (25.77)
Women’s 100 butterfly
Auburn’s Meghan Lee leads a jumbled 100 fly, one that might produce a surprise winner or that could give the host Tigers a gold. Lee went 51.24 in prelims. That was .14 ahead of Florida’s Olivia Peoples, who entered the top seed at 51.59. The only other 51 in the field, Texas A&M’s Olivia Theall, finished ninth.
South Carolina’s Greta Pelzek was third in prelims at 51.93, teammate Nicholle Toh joining her in sixth. Alabama has an A finalist in Gaby Van Brunt in fourth.
Event 20 Women 100 Yard Butterfly
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NCAA: N 48.46 3/14/2023 Kate Douglass, Virginia
SEC: S 48.51 3/18/2023 Maggie MacNeil, LSU
SEC Meet: M 48.99 2023 Maggie MacNeil, LSU
Pool: P 49.38 2/20/2020 Erika Brown, Tennessee
Name Year School Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Lee, Meghan R SR Auburn-SE 51.91 51.24
r:+0.63 24.18 51.24 (27.06)
2 Peoples, Olivia G JR FLOR-FL 51.59 51.38
r:+0.60 24.07 51.38 (27.31)
3 Pelzek, Greta J JR South Carolina-S 52.10 51.93
r:+0.61 24.64 51.93 (27.29)
4 Van Brunt, Gaby M FR BAMA-SE 52.44 52.06
r:+0.66 24.29 52.06 (27.77)
5 Grana, Miranda P FR Texas A&M-GU 53.60 52.21
r:+0.67 24.74 52.21 (27.47)
6 Toh, Nicholle SR South Carolina-S 52.32 52.24
r:+0.60 24.50 52.24 (27.74)
7 Waldrep, Ellie G JR Auburn-SE 52.64 52.29
r:+0.59 24.35 52.29 (27.94)
8 Stotler, Sara B SO Tennessee-SE 52.91 52.35
r:+0.65 24.54 52.35 (27.81)
Men’s 100 butterfly
Josh Liendo’s 43.89 makes it his race to lose. Teammate Scotty Buff was closest in 45.00.
Liendo’s time is just off his best of 43.40 from NCAAs last year. It downed the Auburn pool record of 45.09 that Matt Targett had set way back in 2009.
The third seed in the final will be Texas A&M’s Connor Foote, who went 45.12. Auburn has a pair of A finalists in Sohib Khaled (fourth in 45.83) and Nathaniel Stoffle (eighth in 46.00).
Event 21 Men 100 Yard Butterfly
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NCAA: N 42.80 3/23/2018 Caeleb Dressel, Florida
SEC: S 42.80 3/23/2018 Caeleb Dressel, Florida
SEC Meet: M 43.89 2024 Josh Liendo, Florida
Pool: P 43.89 2/22/2024 Josh Liendo, Florida
Name Year School Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Liendo, Josh SO FLOR-FL 44.39 43.89M
r:+0.61 9.37 20.73 (11.36)
32.21 (11.48) 43.89 (11.68)
2 Buff, Scotty FR FLOR-FL 46.09 45.00
r:+0.62 9.54 20.95 (11.41)
32.75 (11.80) 45.00 (12.25)
3 Foote, Connor SO Texas A&M-GU 45.02 45.12
r:+0.66 9.32 20.64 (11.32)
32.52 (11.88) 45.12 (12.60)
4 Khaled, Sohib SO Auburn-SE 46.04 45.38
r:+0.62 9.40 20.89 (11.49)
32.93 (12.04) 45.38 (12.45)
5 Lierz, Harrison M JR Tennessee-SE 46.95 45.63
r:+0.62 9.80 21.44 (11.64)
33.42 (11.98) 45.63 (12.21)
6 Kammann, Bjoern SO Tennessee-SE 46.69 45.72
r:+0.72 9.44 21.15 (11.71)
33.08 (11.93) 45.72 (12.64)
7 Van Renen, Ruard SO UGA-GA 46.07 45.84
r:+0.65 9.64 21.21 (11.57)
33.19 (11.98) 45.84 (12.65)
8 Stoffle, Nathaniel L JR Auburn-SE 46.05 46.00
r:+0.62 9.48 21.05 (11.57)
33.22 (12.17) 46.00 (12.78)
Women’s 200 freestyle
If Tennessee is going to mount a charge at the team title, it might have to happen in the 200 free. The Vols put three in the A final, led by third-place Brooklyn Douthwright. Camille Spink, the 50 free champ, is fourth, while Julia Mrozinski is seventh.
Florida counters with the top seed, Isabel Ivey having going 1:42.85 in the morning. That’s four-tenths up on Texas A&Ms Chloe Stepanek. Bella Sims, who set the meet record off the front of the 200 free relay, opted out of the individual race. But the Gators have Micayla Cronk in there, the sixth seed in prelims.
Event 22 Women 200 Yard Freestyle
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NCAA: N 1:39.10 3/20/2015 Missy Franklin, California
SEC: S 1:40.90 2/20/2024 Bella Sims, Florida
SEC Meet: M 1:40.90 2024 Bella Sims, Florida
Pool: P 1:40.90 2/20/2024 Bella Sims, Florida
Name Year School Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Ivey, Isabel C 5Y FLOR-FL 1:43.03 1:42.85
r:+0.69 23.57 49.16 (25.59)
1:15.52 (26.36) 1:42.85 (27.33)
2 Stepanek, Chloe M SR Texas A&M-GU 1:43.98 1:43.25
r:+0.76 23.87 50.01 (26.14)
1:16.40 (26.39) 1:43.25 (26.85)
3 Douthwright, Brooklyn Tennessee-SE 1:44.04 1:43.47
r:+0.63 24.51 50.65 (26.14)
1:16.93 (26.28) 1:43.47 (26.54)
4 Spink, Camille Tennessee-SE 1:44.63 1:43.53
r:+0.67 23.85 50.39 (26.54)
1:17.00 (26.61) 1:43.53 (26.53)
5 Riordan, Amy L SO South Carolina-S 1:44.31 1:44.13
r:+0.67 24.34 50.72 (26.38)
1:17.49 (26.77) 1:44.13 (26.64)
6 Cronk, Micayla M JR FLOR-FL 1:45.44 1:44.72
r:+0.69 23.59 49.75 (26.16)
1:17.08 (27.33) 1:44.72 (27.64)
7 Mrozinski, Julia M SO Tennessee-SE 1:45.71 1:44.94
r:+0.65 24.09 50.92 (26.83)
1:18.23 (27.31) 1:44.94 (26.71)
8 Furse, Shea T SO UGA-GA 1:45.20 1:45.02
r:+0.64 24.82 51.15 (26.33)
1:18.10 (26.95) 1:45.02 (26.92)
Men’s 200 freestyle
Macguire McDuff is in good form and the top seed in the 200 free final, which will be a clash of styles. The Florida sprinter went 1:31.40 in prelims. He’ll have another fast man, Tennessee’s Jordan Crooks, on his tail in finals after the 50 free champ went 1:31.45. At the other extreme is Charlie Hawke of Alabama, who went 1:31.47. Hawke holds the fastest time this season at 1:31.30.
Florida’s Jake Mitchell is the fourth seed, where he’ll also be flying the distance flag. Georgia has three A finalists, led by Reese Branzell in fifth.
Event 23 Men 200 Yard Freestyle
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NCAA: N 1:29.15 3/27/2019 Dean Farris, Harvard
SEC: S 1:29.48 2/23/2021 Kieran Smith, Florida
SEC Meet: M 1:29.48 2021 Kieran Smith, Florida
Pool: P 1:30.11 2/18/2020 Kieren Smith, Florida
Name Year School Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 McDuff, Macguire V JR FLOR-FL 1:32.91 1:31.40
r:+0.68 20.75 43.75 (23.00)
1:07.44 (23.69) 1:31.40 (23.96)
2 Crooks, Jordan J SO Tennessee-SE 1:32.07 1:31.45
r:+0.56 21.13 44.53 (23.40)
1:08.04 (23.51) 1:31.45 (23.41)
3 Hawke, Charlie J JR BAMA-SE 1:31.30 1:31.47
r:+0.69 21.36 44.64 (23.28)
1:08.03 (23.39) 1:31.47 (23.44)
4 Mitchell, Jake R SR FLOR-FL 1:33.17 1:32.23
r:+0.67 21.38 44.73 (23.35)
1:08.51 (23.78) 1:32.23 (23.72)
5 Branzell, Reese JR UGA-GA 1:33.97 1:32.43
r:+0.72 21.33 44.72 (23.39)
1:08.77 (24.05) 1:32.43 (23.66)
6 Dunham, Bradley GS UGA-GA 1:33.31 1:32.77
r:+0.66 21.74 45.18 (23.44)
1:09.06 (23.88) 1:32.77 (23.71)
6 Alves, Kaique JR BAMA-SE 1:31.97 1:32.77
r:+0.66 21.38 44.62 (23.24)
1:08.34 (23.72) 1:32.77 (24.43)
8 Koski, Tomas S FR UGA-GA 1:32.75 1:32.80
r:+0.61 21.51 45.21 (23.70)
1:09.20 (23.99) 1:32.80 (23.60)
