Courtesy: Florida Athletics
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Florida swimming and diving program released its 2025-26 schedule on Wednesday. The campaign features 13 meets total with three home dual meets at the Ann Marie Rogers Swimming and Diving Pool at the Stephen C. O’Connell Center Natatorium.
The season opens on September 26 in Bloomington, Indiana, as both teams take on the Hoosiers at 11:00 a.m. Florida then returns home for two 11:00 a.m. dual meets, hosting Virginia on October 10 and Georgia on October 31.
The Gators travel to Athens, Georgia, for the annual Georgia Fall Invite (Nov. 19–21). Select swimmers will also compete in the U.S. Open Championships (Dec. 3–6) in Austin, Texas, while select divers will compete at the USA Diving Winter National Championships starting Dec. 7.
The 2026 portion of the schedule kicks off in Gainesville on January 9 with a dual meet against LSU before heading to Auburn on January 16. The Gators conclude regular season competition with their annual split-site meet with in-state rival Florida State on January 30, with swimming events held in Ocala at 12:00 p.m. and diving hosted in Gainesville at 11:00 a.m.
Championship season begins with the SEC Championships in Knoxville, Tennessee from Feb. 17–21, followed by NCAA Diving Zones (Mar. 8–11). The NCAA Championships will take place in Atlanta, GA at Georgia Tech’s McAuley Aquatic Center with the women’s slated for March 18-21 and the men’s March 25-28. The 2026 championships qualifying standards and zone diving host confirmations will be announced in the upcoming weeks.
Admission is free for all home meets at the Stephen C. O’Connell Center Natatorium.
FULL SCHEDULE
| Date | Opponent/Location | Location | Time |
2025 |
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| September 26 | at Indiana (M&W) | Bloomington, IN | 11:00 AM |
| October 10 | vs. Virginia (M&W) | Gainesville, FL | 11:00 AM |
| October 31 | vs. Georgia (M&W) | Gainesville, FL | 11:00 AM |
| November 19 – 21 | Georgia Invite (M&W) | Athens, GA | All Day |
| December 3 – 6 | US Open Championships (M&W) | Austin, TX | All Day |
| December 7-17 | USA Diving Winter National Championship | TBA | All Day |
2026 |
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| January 9 | LSU (M&W) | Gainesville, FL | TBA |
| January 16 | Auburn (M&W) | Auburn. AL | TBA |
| January 30 | FSU (M&W) | Ocala, FL SWIM Gainesville, FL DIVING |
12:00 PM SWIM 11:00 AM DIVING |
| February 17 – 21 | SEC Championships | Knoxville, TN | All Day |
| March 8 – 11 | NCAA Diving Zones | TBA | All Day |
| March 18 – 21 | Women’s NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships | Atlanta, GA | All Day |
| March 25 – 28 | Men’s NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships | Atlanta, GA | All Day |
Don’t know if this has been mentioned yet, but they pulled Nil Cadevall Micolau, a 27.6/1.00.9/2.14.0 breaststroker + 2.00.4 imer
https://swimswam.com/florida-adds-european-juniors-medalist-nil-cadevall-micolau-for-this-fall/
UF vs IU women is going to be a barn burner
How do you know the coaches don’t care about the alumni? We have been begging for Saturday dual meets to bring our families too and yet another year with no Saturday meets.
Here’s a weird one… UF lists meet against LSU for Jan 9… yet LSU lists it as Jan 10 (a Sat) 🤷♀️
No Bella Sims. No Emma Weyant.
It’s going to be a long season for the Florida Gators.
wonder if Emma Weyant will continue on as a pro?
has had great career in 400IM!
They also lose Olivia Peoples (key sprint free/fly swimmer, best known for swimming butterfly in a free relay) and Mikayla Cronk (2 21 and 47 splits at NCAA’s this year.)
So 3 of the 4 legs of the 3rd place 4 medley relay at NCAA’s
And Mabel Zavaros too, multi-time finalist in the 400 IM
UF is getting a stacked freshman class this year including Grace Rabb and Lilla Bognar, and a sprint fly/free specialist from Brazil, and they had several girls make significant moves this summer in long course. Those points will be hard to replace, but I suspect that by the end of the year, UF will be doing better than we might have thought.
I know about them, but Lilla Bognar hasn’t swim at a meet since December, she got injured
At least 87 of their 122 individual points
Those points won’t be easy to replace despite the incoming class of Bognar, Rabb, Bowen, Bezerra (BRA), Statkevicius (CAN), Ferguson.
Guess they didn’t want to race Tampa and their “performing enhancing suits” this year
No rematch w Tampa??
Lol they’re ducking the D2 not-quite-champs.
HAHA!
Dressel Half time show 👀
halftime show vs UVA
Dressel goes 100 fly against Gretchen and Kate 2×50 fly relay
who wins?
I’d love that. Unfortunately, coaches aren’t that creative and don’t care about the sport to make it fun for fans.