Florida will take its first trip out of the Sunshine State this season, traveling up north for a tri-meet with Texas, whose men’s team is the 2016 defending national champions, and Indiana on Friday and Saturday.
The three teams will face off at the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center beginning at 2 p.m. ET on Friday in a 50-meter long-course meet and conclude on Saturday at 10 a.m. ET in a 25-yard short-course meet. Both days will consist of 16 swimming events and two diving events.
In the regular season, the Gators (1-0 M, 1-0 W) most recently saw the Longhorns and Hoosiers just last year, meeting up with both teams last October in Austin, Texas. The meet was divided up into two days, with the first day in a long-course format and the second day in short-course meters. The Florida men fell to Texas both days 179-121 and 162-100 but won over Indiana 157-143 and 140-122. The women were swept by Texas 171-129 and 155-105 and by Indiana 159-139 and 142-120.
Both Texas and Indiana have not yet competed this season.
For those who followed Olympic swimming & diving in August, many of the names on each team’s roster will sound familiar. On the Longhorns‘ roster, Townley Haas, Jack Conger and Clark Smith helped the United States win gold in the men’s 4×200 free relay, and Joseph Schooling pulled the upset win over Michael Phelps in the men’s 100 butterfly to bring Singapore its first Olympic swimming medal. Joanna Evans competed on the women’s side for the Bahamas. For Indiana, current Hoosiers James Connor (Australia), Michael Hixon (USA) and Jessica Parratto (USA) competed in the diving well, with Hixon winning silver in the men’s synchronized 3-meter springboard. Kennedy Goss (Canada), Ali Khalafalla (Egypt), Lilly King (USA), Blake Pieroni (USA) and Anze Tavcar (Slovenia) represented in swimming — Goss won a bronze medal as a member of the women’s 4×200 free relay team, King a gold in the women’s 100 breast and in the 4×100 medley relay and Pieroni a gold in the men’s 4×100 free relay.
Gators Mitch D’Arrigo, Caeleb Dressel and Jan Switkowski swam for Italy, the United States and Poland respectively in Rio. Dressel earned two of Florida‘s six swimming medals in the men’s 4×100 free relay and men’s 4×100 medley relay.
Live results are available through IUHoosiers.com. Results will also be updated throughout the day on Twitter at @GatorsSwimDv and posted in full at the conclusion of the competition on FloridaGators.com. Both days will also be streamed live on BTN Plus ($).
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UT women won all but 4 events.
John Murray is not swimming, What kind of meet is that?
looks like Indiana is dominating this one!
Results show that Texas and Florida are both clearly swimming this tired. No suprise. Indiana is also clearly a bit rested, ugh.
Doubtful IU is rested this early in the season. Each team is just in a different phase of their training. Looks like UT left behind several swimmers though and no sign of Dressel.
I think Alabama will win this one