2025 SEC Championships
- Dates: Tuesday, February 18–Saturday, February 22
- Prelims: 9:30 am EST/ Finals 5:30 pm EST (Tuesday-5:00 EST)
- Location: Gabrielsen Natatorium — Athens, GA
- Defending Champions: Florida women (2x); Florida men (12x)
- Live Results
- Live Video: SEC Network+
- Championship Central
- Fan Guide (Men)
- Fan Guide (Women)
- Psych Sheets
- Teams: Alabama, Arkansas (women), Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas*, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt (women)
- Live Recaps
In their very first season in the SEC, the Texas Longhorn women’s swimming and diving team continued the streak of dominance they maintained in the Big 12. In total, they scored 1450 points to beat reigning champion and runner-up Florida’s 1179 by 271 points.
Tonight’s victory might be their first SEC victory, but the Longhorns are no strangers to conference championships. While competing as members of the Big 12, Texas won 22 of 28 championships, and were on a 12-year win streak coming into this season. Tonight makes 13 straight conference titles, every year since 2012
Final Standings:
- Texas- 1450
- Florida- 1179
- Tennessee- 1172
- Georgia- 689.5
- South Carolina- 635.5
- Alabama- 620
- LSU- 609
- Texas A&M- 566.5
- Auburn- 524.5
- Missouri- 398
- Kentucky- 345
- Arkansas- 244
- Vanderbilt- 165
Last year, Florida won the title over Tennessee by 201 points, this year that score was much closer with the addition of the Texas women and their unmatched depth across the board. This depth is what won them the meet because Texas did not win an exceptional number of events, only taking home five individual and two relay titles.
Texas Event Winners:
- 500 Freestyle – Jillian Cox – 4:31.54 (Meet Record)
- 1650 Freestyle – Jillian Cox – 15:30.33 (Meet Record)
- 100 Fly – Emma Sticklen – 49.40
- 200 Fly – Emma Sticklen – 1:49.17 (SEC and Meet Record)
- 200 IM – Emma Sticklen – 1:52.42
- 200 Free Relay – Grace Cooper, Emma Sticklen, Abigail Arens, Ava Longi – 1:25.90
- 200 Medley Relay – Emma Sticklen, Piper Enge, Abigail Arens, Grace Cooper – 1:33.84 (Meet Record)
Members of the SEC Championship Team:
We would be remiss to not mention the SEC Swimmer of the Meet and three event winner Emma Sticklen. Out of the seven total events that went to the Longhorn swimmers, Sticklen was directly involved in five of them. She started the meet with the leadoff leg of the medley relay, splitting the fastest 50 backstroke in the field and she maintained that dominance throughout. On day five, she swam the 200 butterfly, setting a new SEC championship record in pursuit of the title, and her 1:49.17 was only one one-hundredth off the NCAA record in the event.
Jillian Cox was the other individual event winner for Texas, taking both distance events in dominant fashion. Sticklen is done after this year, but Cox is only a freshman meaning Texas potentially has three more years with her distance freestyle talent.
Besides a strong class of Graduate Students, Texas has an incredibly strong core of young swimmers with seven freshman and eight sophomores scoring points at the meet, many of them scoring a significant number. This will be huge as they try and repeat their title next year.
Texas has been runner-up at the last two NCAA Championships, and they are looking to upset four-time champions Virginia this year.
| Swimmer | Class | Points |
| Campbell Chase | Freshman | 58 |
| Jillian Cox | Freshman | 67 |
| Piper Enge | Freshman | 58 |
| Alejandra Estudillo | Freshman | 81 |
| Taylor Fox | Freshman | 51 |
| Kate Hurst | Freshman | 41 |
| Lillian Nesty | Freshman | 68 |
| Berit Berglund | Sophomore | 41 |
| Angie Coe | Sophomore | 25 |
| Bayleigh Cranford | Sophomore | 69 |
| Alexa Fulton | Sophomore | 11 |
| Erin Gemmell | Sophomore | 78 |
| Emma Kern | Sophomore | 23 |
| Caroline Kupka | Sophomore | 48 |
| Campbell Stoll | Sophomore | 82 |
| Sarah Carruthers | Junior | 23 |
| Hailey Hernandez | Senior | 63 |
| Abigail Arens | Grad Student | 78 |
| Olivia Bray | Grad Student | 67 |
| Grace Cooper | Grad Student | 33 |
| Ava Longi | Grad Student | 49 |
| Emma Sticklen | Grad Student | 96 |
Texas women won easily and only one relay! Texas men didn’t win any relays! Especially on the conference level, relays aren’t that important.
texas has really strong underclassmen and an incoming freshman class but its kinda weird to see their junior and senior class so hollowed out with just 2 divers and 0 swimmers!
Luckily they had a strong class of 5th years, both for scoring purposes and leadership experience.
Lot of points leaving the program next year – but the future is bright with the current sophomore and freshman classes, plus next year’s recruits.
I don’t think Carol is getting enough credit for how well she has developed this year’s freshman swimmers. They weren’t really highly rated (though Jillian was highly rated in last years class) and are probably the best group in the nation besides UVA.
Did you see Tennessee girls? Would love to compare freshman class across the board
7 Texas Freshmen scored 424 (60 pt average) – there were 5 swimmers who scored 292 pts (58 pt average)
7 Tenn Freshmen scored 279 (40 pt av) – they were all swimmers.
Whoops, sorry: I think texas had four and five divers in the finals of 1- and 3-meter. I got the platform number wrong–but the overall point is unchanged: the longhorn women’s racked up a huge points advantage in diving,
Relay names guy in shambles
I’m fine
Very glad that the women’s team AND the men’s team won the SEC swim and dive conference championship.
why the down votes? They both won. The end.
Texas won the women’s meet because of diving, not swimming. They racked up HUGE points with their diving depth. They had 4 finalists in platform, I think, and 5 flnalists in 3 meter. I haven’t checked 1 meter but I’m sure it was more big points.
Meanwhile, Tennessee’s diving was a disaster. I think UT’s best finish in platform was 30th, 15th in 3 meter, maybe 13the in 1 meter. How many divers did Texas bring to the meet–6, 7? Tennessee brought no more than 3,
Texas had 118 points from just platform diving. If Tennessee had any points from platform, it was under 6.5. So at least 115 point lead from 1 diving event. Toss in the… Read more »
So…..they won right?
I mean it’s called swimming AND diving, so… that tracks
and yet this site is called ‘swim swam,’ not ‘dive dove’ so the diving point question is valid.
You can not care about diving but implying that the points they generate come with an * is invalid. And as stated below, they STILL win without the divers, so it’s all moot.
Except if you remove all diving points Texas women’s swimming still wins by 95 points.
Texas women scored 326 diving points, Florida scored 96 points, and Texas won by 271 points. So Texas still wins by 41 without diving.
But as I said on the box score article, it’s kind of a silly comparison, because Florida had 19 swimmers and Texas had 12 swimmers. I would expect a team of 19 swimmers to outscore a team of 12 swimmers in a conference championship format.
Florida had the diver of the meet. You also need to take away her points.
OH. True. Amended. I think our math still doesn’t match…without diving I’ve got Texas by 41.
But: TN women only got 25 diving points so TX outscored TN by 300+ points…but they beat TN by less than 300 points. Did TN actually win the ‘swimming’ portion of this meet?
This is like saying Texas won the fly but Tenn won the breast so they both won right?
Does that matter? They don’t give out trophies for swimming only. I don’t care about the diving and if they were split sports I wouldn’t mind, but they’re not. It’s not like Texas is exploiting a loop hole by prioritizing a dive team.
I’ll go with your math as I was doing it in my head while doing something else.
Atta Girl Emma!! I know your parents are very proud ..!