No. 7 Gators Set to Compete at Georgia Tech Invite
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 | Men's Swimming & Diving
The University of Florida No. 7 men's and No. 16 women's swimming & diving teams are set to travel to Atlanta, Ga. to compete in the Georgia Tech Invitational from Nov. 20-22. This is first time since the 2011-12 season that the Gators have competed in this event. In that Invite, Florida's women won the meet, while the UF men finished runner-up.
The Gator men and women last competed two weeks ago in a dual meet against Minnesota, where the men defeated No. 19 Minnesota, 167-125, while, UF's women's squad fell to the No. 10-ranked Gophers, 183-117 in Gainesville. Throughout the dual meet, UF registered 15 NCAA 'B” standard times.
FLORIDA AT GEORGIA TECH INVITATIONAL | FLORIDA MEET NOTES | LIVE STATS
NOVEMBER 20-22 | GEORGIA TECH AQUATIC CENTER | SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
· 2014-15 UF Dual Records: No. 7 Men, 3-1, 2-1 | No. 16 Women, 3-2, 3-1
TROY'S TALKING
"I feel real good where both groups are at heading into this championships style meet at Georgia Tech. This meet has several good team's competing in it, and it will give us a good chance to evaluate the fall and see where we need to improve upon in the spring when it really matters."
Head Coach Gregg Troy
AMONG THE NATION'S BEST
This season, Florida's men have had six individuals record a combined 13 NCAA top-10 times across nine events. For the women, UF has had four individuals record a combined 8 NCAA top-10 times across eight events.
MEN: WOMEN:
50 Free 50 Free
-- Caeleb Dressel, 6th - 19.94 -- Natalie Hinds, 2nd - 22.44
100 Free 100 Free
-- Pawel Werner, 10th - 44.12 -- Natalie Hinds, 2nd - 48.95
200 Free 500 Free
-- Pawel Werner, 7th - 1:36.93 -- Jessica Thielmann, 7th - 4:47.17
-- Mitch D'Arrigo, 10th – 1:37.14 1,000 Free
500 Free -- Jessica Thielmann, 8th - 9:45.23
-- Mitch D'Arrigo, 5th - 4:23.47 1,650 Free
-- Dan Wallace, 9th - 4:25.84 -- Jessica Thielmann, 1st - 16:27.06
1,000 Free 100 Back
-- Mitch D'Arrigo, 4th - 9:05.91 -- Sinead Russell, 5th - 53.23
200 Breast 200 Back
-- Matt Elliott, 2nd - 1:56.83 -- Georgia Hohmann, 10th – 1:56.25
100 Fly 100 Fly
-- Caeleb Dressel, 7th - 47.74 -- Natalie Hinds, 6th – 53.44
200 IM
-- Eduardo Solaeche-Gomez, 7th - 1:47.58
-- Matt Elliott, 10th - 1:47.95
400 IM
-- Matt Elliott, 2nd - 3:50.36
-- Dan Wallace, 9th – 3:51.86
TOP RELAY'S
The Gators own the country's top time in the men's 800-yard freestyle relay (Dressel, Werner, Kaisrlik, D'Arrigo; 6:35.42) and ranks second in the women's 200-yard free relay (Russell, Hinds, McKnight, Linn; 1:30.69).
RANKED
The Florida men's swimming and diving team is No. 7 and the women sit at No. 11 in the College Swimming Coaches Association of America rankings, CSCAA officials announced on Nov. 13 and Nov. 6, respectively.
NEXT UP
Florida will compete in its final meet of the calendar year is from Dec. 4-6 in Greensboro, N.C. as UF will be at the U.S. Nationals.
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