GAINESVILLE, Fla. - 12 Gators from the No. 4/3 men's and women's swimming & diving teams headed back to Auburn, AL on Friday for the Last Chance Meet - Auburn Invitational inside the James E. Martin Aquatic Center.
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Last chance meets, held after conference championships, are designed to give swimmers that are on the edge of NCAA qualification one last opportunity to improve times and odds at selection.
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Florida recorded 12 total B-cuts from preliminary and the finals session.
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Sean Sullivan saw the biggest improvement, shaving almost 6 seconds off his seed time in the 200 yard back. The freshman cut over three seconds off in the morning session to just barely make the B qualifying time of 1:44.60 by 0.01, but clocked a 1:42.94 in the finals session to affirm his improvement.
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Amro Al-Wir also improved his seed time by over two seconds during 100 yard breaststroke prelims, recording a B-cut time of 53.36. The senior dropped even more time during finals to finish in 53.12.
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The Gators will wrap up the last chance meet tomorrow, with prelims starting at 11 a.m. ET and finals at 4 p.m. ET, before turning attention to NCAA Championship competition at the end of the month.
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Day One Results
Finals Event |
Finals Results |
Women's 200 Yard IM |
Julia Podkoscielny – 2:01.87 (+2.37 seed time) |
Men's 500 Yard Freestyle |
Eric Brown – 4:13.31 (-0.35 prelim time) |
Women's 100 Yard Breaststroke |
Anna Moore – 1:02.26 (+0.92 prelim time) |
Men's 100 Yard Breaststroke |
Amro Al-Wir – 53.12 (-0.24 prelim time) |
Men's 200 Yard Backstroke |
Caleb Maldari – 1:40.96 (+0.19 prelim time)
Sean Sullivan - 1:42.94 (-1.65 seed time) |
Men's 200 Yard Butterfly |
Billy Jones – 1:43.94 (-0.15 prelim time) |
Men's 200 Yard Breaststroke Time Trial |
Peter Bretzmann – 1:53.05 |
Women's 200 Yard Breaststroke Time Trial |
Grace Rainey – 2:14.60 |
Men's 400 Yard IM Time Trial |
Josh Parent – 3:44.97 |
Prelim Event |
Prelim Results |
Men's 500 Yard Freestyle |
Eric Brown – 4:14.66 (-0.32 seed time)
Josh Parent – 4:23.04 (+0.45 seed time) |
Women's 100 Yard Breaststroke |
Grace Rainey – 1:01.34 (0.56 seed time)
Anna Moore – 1:01.72 (+0.05 seed time) |
Men's 100 Yard Breaststroke |
Amro Al-Wir – 53.36 (-2.07 seed time) |
Men's 200 Yard Backstroke |
Caleb Maldari – 1:40.76 (-0.74 seed time)
Sean Sullivan - 1:44.59 (-3.61 seed time) |
Men's 200 Yard Butterfly |
Billy Jones – 1:44.09 (-0.19 seed time) |
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