2024 SEC Championships: Day 1 Finals Stay Recap

2024 SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS

The 2024 SEC Championships kick off as we speak in Auburn, Alabama. This preliminary session of finals options males’s group diving, the 200 medley relay, girls’s 3-meter diving, and the 800 freestyle relay.

Final 12 months, three totally different groups gained the 4 relays on the primary evening of the competitors. The Alabama girls scored victory within the girls’s 200 medley relay, the Tennessee males touched 1st within the males’s medley relay, and Florida swept the 800 free relays. This 12 months, Florida is seeded 1st in every of these 4 relays.

WOMEN’S 200 MEDLEY RELAY — FINALS

• NCAA Report: 1:31.51, Virginia – 2023 NCAA Championships
• SEC Report:  1:33.94, Alabama — 2022 SEC Championships
• SEC Championship Report: 1:33.94, Alabama — 2022
• 2024 NCAA ‘A’ Normal: 1:36.24
• 2024 NCAA ‘B’ Normal: 1:37.00

Full Outcomes:

1. Florida – 1:34.25 (NCAA ‘A’ Normal)
2. Tennessee – 1:34.89 (NCAA ‘A’ Normal)
3. Auburn – 1:35.25 (NCAA ‘A’ Normal)
4. Alabama – 1:35.32 (NCAA ‘A’ Normal)
5. Georgia – 1:35.43 (NCAA ‘A’ Normal)
6. Texas A&M – 1:35.87 (NCAA ‘A’ Normal)
7. Missouri – 1:36.96
8. South Carolina – 1:37.35
9. Kentucky – 1:37.43
10. Arkansas – 1:38.16
11. LSU – 1:38.63
12. Vanderbilt – 1:39.01

The College of Florida girls kicked off the 2024 SEC Championships with a win within the 200 medley relay, stopping the clock in 1:34.25. Their time was simply 0.07 off the 1:34.18 they posted on the UGA Invite earlier within the season, however tonight’s line-up regarded a bit totally different in comparison with that meet. Their 1:38.18 swim nonetheless ranks them 4th within the NCAA for the 2023-24 season.

At the moment, Aris Runnels (23.90) led them off as a substitute of Bella Sims, whereas Molly Mayne (26.48), Olivia Peoples (22.33), and Micayla Cronk (21.54) rounded out the victorious quartet. Apart from Runnels changing Sims on the backstroke leg, Cronk featured as a substitute of Isabel Ivey on the freestyle leg as we speak. Presumably, Sims and Ivey will characteristic on Florida’s 800 free relay later within the evening.

Each Mayne and Peoples, who returned from the UGA midseason meet, had been quicker tonight in comparison with that meet. See a full cut up comparability between these two relay swims beneath, along with their 2nd place efficiency from final 12 months:

The College of Tennessee dropped 0.95 from their entry time to safe runner-up standing tonight, touching in 1:34.89. Josephine Fuller (24.04), Mona McSharry (25.80), Sara Stotler (23.33), and Katie Mack (21.72) comprised their relay. McSharry lately competed for Eire on the Doha World Championships (LCM) final week, so this can be a fast turnaround for her.

The hometown group, Auburn, grabbed third place. Their ultimate time of 1:35.25 was sufficient to out-touch Alabama by 0.07, with Meghan Lee (23.90), Stasya Makarova (26.74), Lawson Ficken (22.84), and Lexie Mulvihill (21.77) representing the Tigers.

Alabama, Georgia, and Texas A&M completed 4th via sixth, however clocked NCAA ‘A’-cuts within the course of.

MEN’S 200 MEDLEY RELAY — FINALS

• NCAA Report: 1:20.67, NC State – 2023 NCAA Championships
• SEC Report: 1:21.13, Florida – 2022 NCAA Championships
• SEC Championship Report: 1:21.43, Tennessee — 2023
• 2024 NCAA ‘A’ Normal: 1:23.71
• 2024 NCAA ‘B’ Normal: 1:24.32

Full Outcomes:

1. Florida – 1:21.66 *NEW AMERICAN RECORD*
2. Tennessee – 1:21.82 (NCAA ‘A’ Normal)
3. Auburn – 1:22.74 (NCAA ‘A’ Normal)
4. Georgia – 1:23.12 (NCAA ‘A’ Normal)
5. Missouri – 1:23.40 (NCAA ‘A’ Normal)
6. Texas A&M – 1:23.91
7. Alabama – 1:24.25
8. South Carolina – 1:24.62
9. LSU – 1:24.97
10. Kentucky – 1:26.59

Even with out Josh Liendo, the College of Florida swam 1:21.66 to win the lads’s 200 medley relay. Their ultimate time of 1:21.66 is the quickest time within the nation this 12 months, undercutting the 1:21.67 produced by the Cal Bears at a twin meet versus ASU.

Florida’s time can be a NEW AMERICAN RECORD within the occasion, and their record-breaking squad consisted of Adam Chaney (20.78), Julian Smith (22.88), Scotty Buff (19.75), and Macguire McDuff (18.25). NC State notably broke the American file about 30-minutes prior (1:21.86) till the Gators simply erased that mark.

See a full cut up comparability between Florida’s American file relay from as we speak, Tennessee’s SEC meet file relay from a 12 months in the past, and Florida’s total SEC file from 2023:

The defending champions, Tennessee, clocked 1:21.82 en path to 2nd place tonight. Bjoern Kammann (21.21), Flynn Crisci (23.00), Jordan Crooks (19.43), and Guilherme Santos (18.18) appeared on their relay, with 3 of the 4 swimmers coming back from final 12 months’s profitable relay.

Auburn checked-in for third tonight, with Nathaniel Stoffle (21.17), Henry Bethel (22.59), Sohib Khaled (20.03), and Kalle Makinen (18.95) representing the Tigers as we speak. The 22.59 cut up from Bethel was significantly spectacular, and it was solely one among two splits beneath the 23-second barrier tonight (Smith of Florida was the opposite).

Georgia and Missouri posted NCAA automated qualifying instances to position 4th and fifth, respectively.

WOMEN’S 800 FREE RELAY — FINALS

• NCAA Report: 6:45.91, Stanford – 2017 NCAA Championships
• SEC Report: 6:51.80, Georgia — 2016 NCAA Championships
• SEC Championship Report: 6:52.54, Georgia — 2013
• 2024 NCAA ‘A’ Normal: 7:00.86
• 2024 NCAA ‘B’ Normal: 7:05.88

MEN’S 800 FREE RELAY — FINALS

• NCAA Report: 6:03.42, Texas – 2023 NCAA Championships
• SEC Report: 6:05.59, Georgia — 2022 NCAA Championships
• SEC Championship Report: 6:08.00, Florida — 2022
• 2024 NCAA ‘A’ Normal: 6:16.02
• 2024 NCAA ‘B’ Normal: 6:18.94

WOMEN’S 3-METER DIVING — FINALS

• SEC Report: 413.75, Laura Ryan (UGA) — 2014 SEC Championships
• SEC Championship Report: 413.75, Laura Ryan (UGA) — 2014 SEC Championships

MEN’S TEAM DIVING — FINALS

Full Outcomes:

1. Florida – 353.65 factors
2. Texas A&M – 353.30 factors
3. LSU – 352.35 factors
4. Auburn – 348.90 factors
5. Tennessee – 338.55 factors
6. Alabama – 327.30 factors
7. Georgia – 287.45 factors
8. South Carolina – 267.90 factors

In a tightly contested group diving occasion, the Florida males scored victory by simply 0.35 factors. Texas A&M claimed 2nd place tonight, with LSU and Auburn in very shut pursuit for third and 4th.