One of the top dual meets scheduled for this week, Florida vs Alabama, has been canceled due to the expected arrival of Hurricane Milton. The meet was scheduled for this Friday in Gainesville, Florida.
This is the third week in which the college dual meet schedule has been affected by a hurricane. Just over a week ago, Florida State canceled its invitational and North Florida canceled its relay meet.
Numerous dual meets were also canceled including Queens vs UNC, UNC-Wilmington vs Duke, and Florida vs Nova Southeastern (D2). All of those meets were scheduled for the weekend of September 27th. One meet was canceled this past weekend as Georgia Southern was set to host West Florida.
Hurricane Milton is currently a Category 4 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, just north of Cancun, Mexico. The storm is projected to make landfall in the Tampa Bay area late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning. It is expected to downgrade to a category 3 storm once it makes landfall but still poses a major threat. Gainesville is located about two hours north of Tampa.
With the cancelation of the dual meet between Florida and Alabama, the other top 25 matchup scheduled for this week is LSU vs Texas. The LSU women were ranked #20 while Texas was ranked #2 in September’s rankings. The LSU men were ranked #25 while Texas sits at #3.
SwimSwam September Power Rankings
Florida has its next (and first) dual meet scheduled at Virginia next week, October 18th. Alabama does not have a meet on the schedule until November 8th when they are scheduled to take on LSU.
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When is Chris Guiliano enrolling at UF?
That’s unfortunate, I was hearing rumors of a Jeremy Rosen cook sesh in the 50/100 double against Liendo
I have a club meet that hasn’t been canceled at UF on Saturday
Glad UF and BAMA are showing caution. The tragedy from the flooding in NE TN and W NC has cost over 250 lives AND the death total is expected to approach 1500. While swim meets are important, the safety of participants, officials and spectators is paramount. We all hope Milton will not cause more loss of life.
Unfortunately it seems that massive hurricanes are now “normal living”. Worried about folks in Florida and hoping for the best. Can’t imagine the stress.
“seems” is because of “improved monitoring”:
Historical Atlantic Hurricane and Tropical Storm Records – Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (noaa.gov)
That data doesn’t suggest this is actually happening any more than other times in human history:
U.S. Hurricane Strikes by Decade (noaa.gov)
Changes in Atlantic major hurricane frequency since the late-19th century | Nature Communications
Wishful thinking there chief, welcome to the future
Is there any empirical evidence that hurricane activity is any worse the past 20 years than the 20 years before that? Obviously, Helene was devestating but your comment may show a bit of recency bias IMO
Wikipedia isn’t a reliable source. It is open source.
2002 called, they want their middle school English teacher back.
Study-after-study has proven that Wikipedia is as good as, or better, than Encyclopedia Britannica or a textbook. Wikipedia is meticulously researched and fact-checked. Spend some time in the Wikipedia community, and see if you change your mind.
On average, it’s better than anything else. In the hands of an educated consumer of information, it’s absolutely incredible.
That was the NYT cherry picking the data and not putting it into context. If we want to discuss misinformation, this is the perfect example of the actual definition of that word. They either willfully or ignorantly disseminated that information without explaining it was due to improved monitoring rather than any other reason.
I provided the exact data below directly from NOAA, including their explanation of the data as well as a peer-reviewed article in Nature explaining it at as well (none of which is behind a paywall). However, that got downvoted for…what reason I don’t know? People not clicking on the links to read them? Challenging their beliefs with actual data/evidence and making them uncomfortable? No idea, but… Read more »
Cancelling this meet works out to Bama’s advantage. The gators would have taken a HUGE chomp out of both the Bama gals and guys.
Bama wouldn’t have added it to their schedule if the meet wouldn’t have benefited them.
The good folks at the SEC scheduling office insist on swimming at uf once a decade.
And also, they prolly won’t get as whomped by a hurricane.
But your thing is just as important and valid and not weird.
Have you heard of our savior Jeremy Rosen?