Coming off a successful 2012-13 season, the Florida swim team is built for a repeat performance this year.
Former Gator Ryan Lochte recorded three of his 15 World Championships titles in Barcelona, Spain, over the past week, bringing his career medal count to 23 at Worlds. Two of his gold medals came in a two-hour span where he swam in three different events on Friday.
Former Gator All-American swimmers Ryan Lochte and Melani Costa-Schmid both earned silver medals on Sunday during the first day of competition at the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona.
UF will be well-represented at this year’s U.S. Open Championships, which begin on July 30.
Marcin Cieslak swam at a new level on the first night of the NCAA finals on Thursday.
Marcin Cieslak paced Florida at the 2012 NCAA Championships.
After Florida’s men were crowned as kings of swimming and diving in the Southeastern Conference last week, the Gators will now head to Georgia for the Bulldog Last Chance Meet. The meet will be a final opportunity for swimmers to qualify for the NCAA Championships toward the end of March.
On the fifth and final day of the 2013 Southeastern Conference Swimming and Diving Championships, the men started the day in the lead while the women sat in third.
Florida’s men began day for of the Southeastern Conference championships ahead of Auburn for the fist time in the five-day event. The women, after surpassing Texas A&M on day three, set out to overtake Georgia for first place.
The Gators are trying to get over the hump.
Sometimes the good has to come with the bad. And that was the case for the Florida swimming and diving teams Saturday afternoon.
One of Sarra Lajnef’s most challenging obstacles was herself.
Elizabeth Beisel tried to swim her way into history against FAU.
The Gators capped off the SMU Classic in Dallas with a third-place showing. Florida tallied 289 points, which trailed first place USC’s 366 and North Carolina’s 292.5.
The No. 10 Florida swimming and diving team is coming off a first place showing in the third-annual All Florida Invitational.
On the second day of the All Florida Invitational, the Gators used 15 victories in the pool to maintain its first place position.
Although she had already won five Southeastern Conference titles, an NCAA title and a world title, junior Elizabeth Beisel was shocked when she won two Olympic medals in London.
At the 2012 London Olympics, coach Gregg Troy led the U.S. men’s swimming team to 16 medals, six of which came from athletes Troy coached at Florida.
When it comes to Michael Phelps, the answer seems obvious with just a cursory glance of the medals table. The guy has won 15 golds — “insane,” says Serena Williams, who certainly knows a thing or two about winning — and now he’s got more total Olympic medals than anyone, with a few more races to extend the record into almost unfathomable territory before he’s done in London.
In the 200 IM, the winner’s circle was only big enough for one Marcin.
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