Georgia Fall Invitational
- November 18-21, 2025
- Gabrielsen Natatorium — Athens, GA
- 9:30 am ET prelims/5:30 pm ET finals (Tuesday exception: 2 pm ET mile timed finals / 5 pm ET relay timed finals)
- 25 Yards (SCY)
- Live Results on Meet Mobile: “UGA Fall Invitational 2025”
- Live Stream
Welcome to the opening session of the 2025 Georgia Invitational! With no prelims held today, this afternoon will feature timed finals in the 1650 freestyle, with the 200 medley relay and 800 freestyle relay for both women and men scheduled to take place this evening.
The host team, Georgia, is joined by Georgia Tech, Alabama, Florida, Florida State, and LSU for this year’s meet, which also marks the start of a packed week of mid-season invitationals nationwide. The Ohio State Invite begins in just a few hours, the Texas Hall of Fame Invitational opens tomorrow, and NC State’s Wolfpack Invite is set to begin on Thursday. Full prelims and finals coverage for all of these meets will be available on SwimSwam throughout the week.
Stay tuned for live updates from the distance session of the Georgia meet below.
Women’s 1650 Freestyle — Timed Finals
- NCAA Record: 15:03.31 — Katie Ledecky, Stanford (2014)
- SEC Record: 15:27.84 — Brittany MacLean, Georgia (2014)
- 2026 NCAA Qualifying Time: 16:25.29
Top 8 Finishers:
- Kennedi Dobson (UGA) – 15:47.61
- Michaela Mattes (UF) – 15:56.85
- Clarke Neace (UGA) – 16:00.95
- Julie Brousseau (UF) – 16:12.05
- Nicole Santuliana (LSU) – 16:21.17
- Camille DeBoer (UF) – 16:22.02
- Heidi Stalkfeet (UGA) – 16:24.30
- Stella Watts (BAMA) – 16:35.30
Georgia freshman Kennedi Dobson was off to a quick start in the women’s mile, establishing an early lead at the 50 with a 25.90 split while the Florida sophomore duo of Michaela Mattes and Julie Brousseau followed about a half second behind with 26-mids.
Dobson held her lead through the first 250, but Brousseau overtook her for the next 150. Dobson regained the lead at the 400 and never relinquished it, holding sub-29 second splits all the way up to the 1300-yard mark before splitting 29-lows for the remainder of the race.
She hit the wall with a final time of 15:47.61, smashing her former best time of 16:02.56, which she clocked to win the U.S. Open title last December. Her time overtakes the former national leading time of 16:10.04, set by Nebraska’s Gena Jorgenson at a dual meet versus Kansas two weeks ago. To put the freshman’s time in perspective, it would have placed her fourth at last season’s NCAA Championships and third at the SEC meet a month prior.
Mattes overtook Brousseau at the 700 mark and held second for the rest of the race, getting to the wall with a time of 15:56.85, about five seconds shy of her lifetime-best 15:54.98 notched for 11th at NCAAs last March.
Brousseau held third through the 1000 mark but began splitting 30-lows and faded. Georgia freshman Clarke Neace held 29-low splits for the entirety of the race, quickly narrowing the four-body length advantage Brousseau had over her in the span of five 50s. Neace flipped ahead of her at the 1250 and went on to take third in 16:00.95, smashing her December 2023 best time of 16:43.62 by over forty seconds.
Brousseau finished in 16:12.05, well shy of her career best of 15:57.60, which earned her 16th at NCAAs last season.
Men’s 1650 Freestyle — Timed Finals
- NCAA Record: 14:12.08 — Bobby Finke, Florida (2020)
- SEC Record: 14:12.08 — Bobby Finke, Florida (2020)
- 2026 NCAA Qualifying Time: 15:06.60
Top 8 Finishers:
- Ahmed Jaouadi (UF) – 14:39.10
- Leonardo Alcantara (BAMA) – 14:50.57
- Eric Brown (UF) – 14:54.31
- Giovanni Linscheer (UF) – 14:55.67
- Jovan Lekic (LSU) – 14:56.06
- Nikola Simic (LSU) – 14:56.19
- Jacob Pishko (LSU) – 14:58.43
- Luke Corey (UF) – 15:02.01
The men’s mile was much more straightforward: Florida freshman Ahmed Jaouadi, swimming the event for the first time, established a lead from the very first stroke and never relinquished it. He ultimately won by 11.47 seconds in 14:39.10, the second-fastest time in the NCAA this season behind reigning NCAA champion Zalan Sarkany of Indiana, who posted 14:29.87 at the USC Invite in early October.
His teammate, senior Giovanni Linscheer, sat in second through the 500, but Alabama junior Leonardo Alcantara overtook him and maintained second for the rest of the race. He finished with a time of 14:50.57, just over five seconds shy of the 14:45.45 personal best he set en route to touching seventh at the 2025 SECs.
Gator senior Eric Brown overtook Linscheer with 50 to go, clocking in at 14:54.31 to Linscheer’s 14:55.67.
Brown’s PB remains the 14:44.06 he swam for fifth at the 2023 SECs. Linscheer’s fastest-ever time is the 14:33.10 he produced for ninth at last season’s Nationals.
At the LCM World Championships this past July, Jaouadi established himself as the best male distance freestyler in the world. He opened that meet by winning gold in the 800 free (7:36.88), a new textile world record and the third-fastest performance in history. The 20-year-old followed up by claiming the 1500 free title in 14:34.41, emerging after a close battle with Germany’s Sven Schwarz (14:35.69) and American (and now, training partner) Bobby Finke (14:36.60) to rank #6 all-time in the event.
With Florida traditionally known for not fully tapering until the SEC Championships in February and the NCAA Championships in March, it’s likely he’s still deep in training, leaving plenty of room for his potential to emerge and maybe even putting Finke’s NCAA Record in jeopardy in a few months’ time.
Did NOT know Georgia could do that. 22.5?!
A little surprised Sean Green didn’t swim the mile. His strength may be more towards the 500 where we could probably assume a big drop compared to his long course time.
3 girls with an A cut in the mile, lets go distance dawgs!
Monster swims from freshmen Dobson and Neace!
This years A cuts are not same as previous years A cuts. They are NOT automatic NC qualified
Yea ik, but great swims nevertheless.
No Sean Green?
Clarke Neace dropped 43 seconds in that mile, absolutely insane swim
Long overdue, been crushing in distance for years!
Results up on Meet Mobile, winners Kennedi Dobson in a 15.47.61 and Ahmed Jaouadi in a 14.39.10
Guessing he’s not very rested then. His 1000 was on pace for a 14:12, that’s around 1.6 seconds per hundred slower.
Florida is sending a team to the US Open, so it would be my guess that if he’s doing a midseason taper, he’s gearing for that and not for this.
I’ll be honest, that was a lot slower than I expected off his 1000 time alone
Qualifies him for the big dance though
Dude’s one of the fastest distance swimmers in the history of the world, if he wasn’t qualifying for the big dance, nobody was
This man is facing problems with the Swimming Federation in Tunisia Yesterday he had a heated debate on a TV show with an official from the Ministry of Sports so I think he’s not 100% focused But I think it’s a good start for him since it’s his first swim in this race
You never know how fast UF will swim in meets other than SECs/NCAAs.
I hope they get a little rest for this meet and see how far under 14:30 Jaouadi goes.
Hey Art,
I guess nobody told this to Liendo in Toronto!