Full results
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The No. 9 University of Florida men's swimming and diving team defeated the No. 15 Florida State Seminoles 188-107 in the Sunshine Showdown inside the O'Connell Center Natatorium on Friday afternoon.
The Gators (6-1) would go on to post the fastest time in all 14 swimming events, including the top-three swims in seven separate individual events.
Throughout the meet, eight Gators would set new personal-bests times or scores.
Individually,
Marco Guarente,
Clark Beach and
Kieran Smith all posted two victories, while
Matthew Anderson produced two new personal-best times as a Gator in both distance events.
On the 3-meter,
Alex Farrow won the event with a season-best tally of 367.05. The score was just 1.88 from a personal-best.
Santiago Morales hit a new personal-best score on the 1-meter with his overall mark of 288.53.
Series History
The Gators and Seminoles have a long history against each other, as this year's meet marked the 83rd all-time meeting between the two programs.
With the win, the Gators improve their record against their in-state rival to 59-23-1 and are currently on a nine-meet win streak.
The Seminoles last defeated UF in 2010-11 in Tallahassee by a final score of 184-116. The other loss since 2000 came in 2006-07 at Florida State.
Gator Splashes
- Clark Beach was one of three Gators to post a pair of individual victories as the junior posted the fastest 200 IM of 1:48.99, a new personal-best. In the 200 free, he would go on to win the event after hitting the wall in 1:38.28.
- The other two Gators to win multiple events were SEC Swimmer of the Week Kieran Smith and Marco Guarente. Smith picked up victories in the 100 and 200 back. In the 100, Smith would secure a B-cut in personal-best fashion. Guarente would sweep the breast events.
- The 1,000 free featured new personal-best times for Brennan Gravley and Matthew Anderson. Gravley crushed the field, hitting the wall in 9:06.64. Anderson finished in 9:17.57. Drew Clark rounded out the top-three finishers with his swim of 9:20.18.
- The top-three finishers in the 200 fly were all Gators. First-place was captured by Kevin Vargas (1:49.50) with Robert Finke (1:50.39) and Jake Adcock (1:50.98) hitting the wall right behind him. Adcock's time set a new career-best swim.
- Eric Friese's win in the 100 fly increases his win total on the season to six events.
- Friese's classmate Alfonso Mestre registered his second-career event win after posting the fastest time in the 500 free (4:27.21).
- Will Davis led the way in the 50 free with his swim of 20.17, followed by Isaac Davis right behind him in a time of 20.53. Friese rounded out the top finishers with his swim of 20.61.
Relay Magic
Florida posted top times in both relays.
In the 400 medley relay, the team of
Dakota Mahaffey, Guarente, Friese and Smith would notch a combined swim of 3:14.4.
The final event, the 200 free relay, saw UF's relay of
Will Davis, Smith, Friese and
Isaac Davis come out victorious with their combined swim of 1:19.40.
The relay of
Viktor Toth,
Jack Szaranek,
Dillon Hillis and
Lucas Kravchenko posted a combined swim that was just .28 seconds from a runner-up bid.
Quotables
Associate head coach Steve Jungbluth-
On his overall thoughts on the team's performance....
"It was a lot of fun. You could tell our guys were fired up about that. In our pre-game meeting, we were talking about it then. I told our director of operations after that the guys were really focused in on what we were saying in there. I knew that they were going to be pretty sharp coming into this one."
On swimmers competing in different events today…
"That's always bit of a challenge. We don't want someone to keep doing the same event over and over again. It keeps it fresh for them to get a break from that. That's a good thing, but then they realize that the opponent may not be doing that as well. Maybe that's their best guy in their best event… It's a different challenge in a different event, but it forces them out of their comfort zone and that's something that we have to constantly be finding new ways to do in this sport so they continue to develop to get to the next level."
Head Diving coach Bryan Gillooly- "It was great to see Alex get this opportunity today. It's not often that the same situation presents itself and much less in back-to-back meets. Last week, he came up just short in his last dive. This week he needed to hit the same dive for the win and pulled it off beautifully. I couldn't be more proud of him and the other men.
Santiago Morales has a personal best on 1-meter as well. Hats off to a great FSU team."
Looking Ahead:
The meet with Florida State will mark the Gators' final dual of 2019.
Swimmers and divers will each travel to different invitationals to wrap up competition in 2019 as the swimmers will travel to Atlanta to compete in the Georgia Tech Invitational on Nov. 22-24.
A handful of swimmers will be right back in Atlanta on Dec. 4-7 to compete in the US Open.
The divers will take part in the Auburn Diving Invitational on Dec. 17-19 in Auburn, Ala.
The men will be back in pool for their final home meet of the season against Auburn on Jan. 25 at 10:00 a.m.
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