Taylor Grimley has announced she will transfer to South Carolina after spending her freshman season at Auburn. She will join South Carolina this fall for the 2025-2026 season with three years of eligibility remaining.
Grimley arrived at Auburn this past fall after originally committing to swim at Kentucky. Grimley finished her season at the team’s first and last chance meets. She swam a personal best time of a 52.93 at the First Chance meet. She also swam a best time in the fall in the dual meet against UNC as she posted a 1:58.97 200 fly.
Grimley’s Time Progression:
| Before Auburn |
Freshman Season
|
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| 100 fly | 52.98 | 52.93 |
| 200 fly | 1:59.58 | 1:58.97 |
The South Carolina women finished 5th out of 13 teams at the 2025 SEC Championships, notably four spots ahead of 9th place Auburn. South Carolina was led by diver Sophia Verzyl who scored 73 individual points.
Although she did not swim at SECs for Auburn, Grimley is on the border of making the ‘C’ final in both fly events. It took a 52.92 in the 100 fly and a 1:58.30 in the 200 fly to make it back. Greta Pelzek led the swimmers as she scored 61 individual points including ‘A’ final appearances in both fly events as she was 4th in the 200 fly (1:52.80) and 7th in the 100 fly (51.73). Both swims were personal bests for Pelzek. Pelzek went on to finish 8th in the 200 fly at NCAAs in a 1:52.91. Grimley and Pelzek will not overlap as Pelzek just finished her senior season.
Getting a great one hard loss for the program
She is going to swim so fast at South Carolina!!!!!! What an amazing sweet and strong women!
Gamecocks getting a great swimmer and a kid full of positive energy that will make an immediate impact in the water and out of water ! While Auburn only raced her in two events, she brings a lot of versatility based on her high school times and events and can help in a lot of areas !
Gega
What is happening with Auburn? Are most of these transfers roster cuts? People leaving for greener pastures? A combination of the two? Swimswam has been full of articles about people leaving Auburn for the last 2 days.
definitely roster cuts, since Auburn roster was way over 30 people each
Many of the transfers were cuts due to roster limits. This one was not a cut but likely a move to look for better fit and a chance to train and race additional events.
Crazy to think that now transferring from Auburn to South Carolina is an upgrade. How times change.
Yep for sure. Both schools going in different directions!
Taylor and Wochomurka have both proven to be disastrous hires for Auburn. Both showed promise at first but fizzled out.
Not taylor
You mean coach Gary Taylor, correct? Not this girl, Taylor Grimley.
Of course
Surely you mean Gary taylor… not the taylor the article is written about
Gary Taylor was at UVA this past season.
and he was the head coach at auburn previous to ryan wockomurka