2021-22 Women's Swimming & Diving Roster

Courtney Culbreath
Jim Burgess
Jim Burgess

Gabby Hillis

  • Position Free
  • Class Senior
  • High School Prosper
  • Hometown Jacksonville, Fla.

Biography

2020 Olympic Trials Wave 1
  • Competed in the 50 free
  • Finished 59th in the 50 free
Career Accolades 
  • Four-time All-American 
  • 2021 SEC Academic Honor Roll
  • 2021 CSCAA Scholar All-American
  • 2020 CSCAA Scholar All-America First Team
  • 2020 SEC Academic Honor Roll
  • 2019 SEC Academic Honor Roll
  • 2018 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
2020-21 (Senior)
NCAA Championships
  • Helped the 200 free relay team to a 13th place finish
SEC Championships
  • Competed in the 50 free, 100 free, and the 200 free
  • Finished 15th in the 50 free, and 25th in the 100 free
  • Set a new personal best of 1:47.85 to finish 25th in the 200 free
  • Was a part of the 200 free relay team that finished fourth, and the 400 free relay team and that 400 medley relay team that both finished fifth
  • Earned B-cuts in the 50 free and the 100 free
Regular Season
  • Had six top five finishes including one second place finish and two third place finishes
2019-20 (Junior)
NCAA Championships
  • Received first career All-American honors in the 100 free, 200 free relay and 400 free relay 
  • Qualified for the NCAA Championships in the 100 free
SEC Championships
  • Won the 100 free B-final with a new personal-best time of 48.21, the fourth-fastest time ever recorded by a Gator
  • Finished in 16th in the 50 free after registering a new career-best time of 22.25 in the prelims (sixth-fastest in program history)
  • Posted a 33rd-place nod in the 200 free with a personal-best time of 1:48.37
  • Was a member of the second-fastest 400 free relay in UF history that combined for an effort of 3:12.79, good for fourth-place
  • Swam the third leg of the sixth-place 200 free relay that posted a combined swim of 1:28.13
Regular Season
  • Was a member of four winning relays, as well as notching a pair of individual wins throughout the season
  • Swam a new personal-best in the 50 free with a swim of 22.61
  • Was a member of the fastest 400 relay team (3:16.93) in the nation up to the point of the dual with Missouri on Oct. 18
  • Won first event of the year in the 50 free with her swim of 22.73 at Minnesota
2018-19 (Sophomore)
Regular Season
  • Recorded personal-best times in the 50 free (22.71) and 100 free (50.11) at the Last Chance Meet
  • Clocked a career-best mark of 1:49.77 in the 200 free at the Georgia Tech Fall Invitational
  • Produced a season-best swim of 59.27 at the Auburn Invitational in the 100 back
2017-18 (Freshman)
  • Posted four personal-best times at the Auburn Invitational: 50 free (23.44), 100 free (51.77), 200 free (1:51.15) and 100 back (57.58)
  • Swam a personal-best time of 5:30.50 in the 500 free at the All-Florida Invitational
National/International Competition:
  • Competed in one individual and one relay event at the Phillips 66 National Championships, finished the 50m free in a time of 26.33 and added a 4x100m FR spilt of 56.23. 

 
Career-Best Times at Florida:
50 Free 22.25 SEC Championships Feb. 18-22, 2020
100 Free 49.05 SEC Championships Feb. 18-22, 2020
200 Free 1:47.85 SEC Championships Feb. 17-20, 2021
500 Free 5:30.50 All-Florida Sept. 22, 2017
100 Back 57.58 Auburn Invitational Feb. 2-4
 
 
PRIOR TO FLORIDA:
  • Competed at the 2017 US Open Swimming Championships, swimming in the women’s 50m freestyle
  • She posted a time of 28.10 in the race...2016 AT&T Winter Nationals qualifier
  • 2016 Speedo Junior National Championships qualifier in the 50 free
  • Earned the 2016 No. 1 Metro seed for 17-18 girls in the 50 free (LCM)
  • Earned the 2015 No. 1 Metro seed for 15-16 girls in the 50 free (SCY and LCM)

Historical Player Information

  • 2017-18Freshman

    Freestyle
    6'1"
  • 2018-19Sophomore

    Free
    6'1"
  • 2019-20Junior

    Free
  • 2020-21Senior

    Free
  • 2021-22Senior

    Free