COLLEGE STATION, Texas (February 14, 2023) – The LSU ladies and the Texas A&M males have the early lead after the primary day on the 2023 SEC Swimming & Diving Championships, held at Texas A&M’s Rec Heart Natatorium.

Within the males’s 1-meter, Texas A&M earned two podium finishes as Victor Povzner took the highest spot with a ultimate rating of 375.50 and teammate Rhett Hensley positioned third with a rating of 343.60. Bryden Hattie of Tennessee got here in second place with a rating of 364.40.

Alabama received the ladies’s 200 medley relay for the third consecutive yr as Rhyan White, Avery Wiseman, Emily Jones and Kalia Antoniou set the pool file with their time of 1:34.20. Florida completed second with a time of 1:34.76, adopted by Tennessee in third with a time of 1:35.53. LSU’s Maggie MacNeil swam the quickest 50 again in historical past together with her leadoff mark of twenty-two.52 for the Tigers.

Tennessee claimed the boys’s 200 medley relay with an SEC file time of 1:21.43 by Bjoern Kammann, Michael Houlie, Jordan Crooks and Guilherme Santos. Crooks swam the quickest 50 fly in historical past along with his break up of 18.90. Florida positioned second with a time of 1:21.73, and Auburn completed third with a time of 1:22.98.

Brooke Schultz of South Carolina received her fourth total title within the ladies’s 3-meter, posting a ultimate rating of 356.35. Fellow Gamecock Sophie Verzyl was runner-up with a rating of 349.65, and LSU’s Chiara Pellacani completed third with a rating of 341.85.

Within the ladies’s 800 free relay, Florida received its first title within the occasion since 2005 as Ekaterina Nikonova, Talia Bates, Emma Weyant and Micayla Cronk posted the highest time of 6:57.11. Tennessee completed second with a time of 6:58.26, whereas Georgia positioned third with a time of 6:58.90.

Closing out the primary day, Florida defended its title within the males’s 800 free relay, with Macguire McDuff, Julian Smith, Alfonso Mestre and Jake Mitchell combining for a pool file time of 6:08.64. Auburn was second with a time of 6:12.39 and Alabama completed third with a time of 6:12.46.

Day two of the 2023 SEC Swimming & Diving Championships begins on Wednesday, February 15 at 9:30 a.m. CT with the prelims for the five hundred free, 200 IM, 50 free and the ladies’s 1-meter. The finals of the 200 free relay, 500 free, 200 IM, 50 free and the ladies’s 1-meter will begin at 5:30 p.m. CT. Each periods could be seen on SEC Community+.