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.
The UF men’s swimming and diving team finished in fifth place at the 2015 NCAA Championships, which concluded Saturday.
After seeing the UF women’s swimming and diving team finish ninth at the NCAA Championships last week, the men now have their chance to try to take home a national title.
The Florida women’s swimming and diving team wrapped up the 2015 NCAA Championships in ninth place, marking Florida’s 15th straight top-10 finish at the meet.
The No. 4 Gators women’s swimming & diving team is looking to cap off its season on a high note as 11 swimmers and one diver compete today for the 2015 NCAA Championships at the Greensboro Aquatic in Greensboro, North Carolina.
For the first time in her UF career, Kahlia Warner will be competing at the NCAA Championships.
For the third straight year, the UF men’s swimming and diving team finished on top.
The Florida men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams locked up a combined four ‘A’ cuts during Day 1 of the five-day Southeastern Conference Championships on Tuesday, but both teams still have a ways to go if either wants to secure a conference title.
The UF men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams will travel to Auburn, Alabama, on Sunday and relax, per coach Gregg Troy’s orders.
As coach Gregg Troy said, the theme for training the No. 7 men and women’s swimming and diving teams for the Southeastern Conference Championships is: “Not where we want to be but still in a really good spot.”
The No. 7 UF men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams finished their last home dual meet on a high note.
With their last regular meet of the season, the UF men and women’s swimming and diving teams will compete against Tennessee at home in the O’Connell Center Natatorium on Saturday. It will also be the final regular season meet for the 10 men and three women seniors on the teams, celebrated as "senior day."
Heading into the weekend with just two dual meets remaining in the season, the Florida swimming and diving teams looked to make a strong push to qualify their athletes for the NCAA Championship.
The UF men’s swimming and diving teams returned to the O’Connell Center Natatorium unaffected by the hiatus in training that came with winter break.
TheNo. 7 ranked Florida men’s swimming and diving team and No. 16 rankedwomen’s team won the Georgia Tech Invitational in Atlanta this weekend.
After a disappointing performance a week ago for both the UF men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams in Athens, the No. 5 men’s squad (3-1, 2-1 Southeastern conference) came back strong this past weekend by defeating Minnesota 167-125. It was the close races that the Gators could not claim versus the Bulldogs over a week ago that led to the losses, but against the Golden Gophers, the men’s team won those close races to earn their third victory of the season. The same cannot be said for the UF women (3-2, 3-1 SEC) as they conceded those close races for the second straight meet, losing to the No. 10 ranked Minnesota women, 183-117.
For the Florida swimming and diving teams this weekend, it was bittersweet as the No. 5 ranked men’s squad (3-1, 2-1 Southeastern conference) defeated Minnesota by a score of 167-125. However the No. 11 ranked Gators women’s team (3-2, 3-1 SEC) fell to the No. 10 ranked Gophers 183-117.
The UF men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams (M: 2-1, 2-1 Southeastern conference; W: 3-1, 3-1 SEC) lost their first meets of the season Friday in Athens, Georgia, against the Bulldogs.
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