SEC Showdown: Florida Women Swim Past Rival Georgia
The 11th-ranked Florida women’s swimming an diving team defeated the No. 15 Georgia Bulldogs 173.5-126.5 in an SEC showdown.
The women claimed 10 first-place finishes on Friday morning.
Florida’s relay quartet of Talia Bates, Nina Kucheran, Olivia Peoples, Ekaterina Nikonova finished second overall with a time of 3:36.49 to kick off the meet for the Gators. Amanda Ray led all swimmers in the women’s 200 fly, touching the wall first with a time of 1:58.15.
Florida claimed the top spot in the women’s 50 free, with Katie Mack touching the wall in 22.62.
Carina Lumia won the women’s 3-meter springboard, claiming the top spot with a score of 297.30. Casey Greenberg (268.80) and Elettra Neroni (259.95) finished fourth and fifth, respectively. Nikonova and Mack placed 1-2 in the women’s 100 free, posting times of 49.14 and 49.41, respectively in the SEC meet.
Zoe Dixon won the women’s 200 back with a swim of 1:56.00. Hayden Miller claimed the top spot in the women’s 500 free, finishing with a time of 4:43.56. Bates won the 100 fly for the Florida women, finishing with a time of 53.93.
Elettra Neroni and Carina Lumia grabbed the top two spots on the 1-meter springboard of the SEC dual, finishing with scores of 283.95 and 280.43.
Mabel Zavaros claimed the top spot in the final individual race of the meet, finishing with a time of 4:13.06. Zoe Dixon touched the wall second with a swim of 4:15.73, while Anna Auld (4:17.05) and Kathleen Golding (4:18.13) finished fourth and fifth, respectively.
The relay team of Bates, Micayla Cronk, Mack and Nikonova touched the wall first with a combined time of 1:30.24 in the final event of the SEC showdown.