2019-20 Women's Swimming & Diving Roster

Bethany Hocker
Jim Burgess
Jim Burgess
Jim Burgess

Tori Bindi

  • Position Free
  • Class Senior
  • High School Gulf Breeze
  • Hometown Gulf Breeze, Fla.

Biography

Career Accolades
  • UF Spring 2020 Outstanding Leader 
  • 2020 CoSIDA Academic All-District 
  • 2020 CSCAA Scholar All-America Second Team 
  • 2020 SEC Academic Honor Roll
  • 2019 SEC Academic Honor Roll
  • 2018 CSCAA Scholar All-America Second Team 
  • 2018 SEC Academic Honor Roll
  • 2017 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
2019-20 (Senior)
SEC Championships
  • Finished in 14th in the 500 free with a new personal-best swim of 4:42.84
  • Set a personal-best swim in the 200 free with a swim of 1:45.71, good for 18th-place
  • Posted a 34th-place overall finish in the 100 free with a new career-best effort of 49.73
  • Was a member of the sixth-place 800 free relay that combined for a swim of 7:05.58
Regular Season
  • Was a member of one winning relay throughout the season
  • Set a new personal-best 100 fly swim of 57.13 in Florida's season opener against FIU
 2018-19 (Junior)
NCAA Championships
  • Clock a third-leg split of 1:45.73 in the 800 free relay, as the team finished  in 17th-place with a combined time of 7:00.97,  the seventh-fastest swim in UF history
SEC Championships
  • Aided in the 800 free relay’s sixth-place finish with a third-leg split of 1:45.70, as the squad finished with an effort of 7:01.32, which ranks eighth-fastest in Florida history
  • Secured fifth-place in the 200 free C Final and 21st overall with a time of 1:46.17
  • Finished eighth in the 500 free C Final and 24th overall with a swim of 4:48.77
  • Recorded a career-best time of 4:46.39 in the 500 free prelims
  • Posted a mark of 50.22 in the 100 free prelims and finished tied for 42nd
Regular Season
  • Collected one individual win during the season
  • Notched a personal-best time in the 100 free at the Georgia Tech Fall Invitational with a swim of 50.08
  • Recorded a career-best mark of 1:45.70 at the Last Chance Meet in the 200 free
  • Clocked a personal-best swim of 57.13 in the 100 fly against Miami
  • Tallied a season-best time of 23.57 in the 50 free at the Georgia Tech Fall Invitational
2017-18 (Sophomore)
SEC Championships
  • Competed in the 50 free, 100 free and 200 free
  • Scored points in the 200 free, placing 21st overall with a career-best time of 1:47.36
  • Swam a personal-best time of 50.20 in the 100 free to finish 32nd overall
  • Posted a time of 23.32 in the 50 free, good for 44th place
Regular Season
  • Totaled one relay win during the course of the season
  • Notched B-cuts in the 100 free (49.78) and 200 free (1:47.36)
 
2016-17 (Freshman)
SEC Championships
  • Swam at the 2017 SEC Championships, tying for 29th in the 100 free (50.25) and finishing 32nd in the 200 free (1:49.06), 43rd in the 50 free (23.51) and ninth in the 400 free relay (3:18.26)
  • Part of Florida’s top 400 free relay (3:18.26 at the SEC Championships)
 
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION:
  • Competed in the 2017 Coast Aquatics Surf & Swi, racing in the 100m free, 100m breast and 200m IM
  • Finished first in the 100m free, posting a time of 1:00.68
  • Also finished first in the 200m IM, recording a time of 2:30.95
  • Placed second in the 100m breast, finishing with a time of 1:23.62
 
Career-Best Times at Florida:
50 Free 23.28 Last Chance Meet  Feb. 24, 2017
100 Free 49.73 SEC Championships Feb. 18-22, 2020
200 Free 1:45.70 Last Chance Meet March 1, 2019
500 Free 4:42.84 SEC Championships Feb. 18-22, 2020
100 Back 1:01.35 All-Florida Sept. 22, 2017
200 Breast 2:33.82 All-Florida  Sept. 22, 2017
100 Fly     57.13 FIU Sept. 26, 2019
 
Prior to Florida
  • Swam for Club Sailfish Swimming
  • Swept the 50 free and 100 free titles in the 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 FHSAA 2A State Championships -- in other words, no one won state in those events for four years except Bindi
  • Four-time All-American automatic qualifier in the 50 free and 100 free
  • Also played lacrosse and competed in track & field at Gulf Breeze
  • Graduated fourth in her class and made the academic all-A honor roll in all four years of high school
Major:
Graduated cum laude with bachelor's degree in Biochemistry in May 2020.

Historical Player Information

  • 2016-17Freshman

    Free
    5'6"
  • 2017-18Sophomore

    Free
    5'6"
  • 2018-19Junior

    Free
    5'6"
  • 2019-20Senior

    Free