Ultra Swim Swimmer of the Month is a recurring SwimSwam feature shedding light on a U.S.-based swimmer who has proven themselves over the past month. As with any item of recognition, Swimmer of the Month is a subjective exercise meant to highlight one athlete whose work holds noteworthy context – perhaps a swimmer who was visibly outperforming other swimmers over the month, or one whose accomplishments slipped through the cracks among other high-profile swims. If your favorite athlete wasn’t selected, feel free to respectfully recognize them in our comment section.
Camille Spink has been almost perfect individually through the first two seasons of her collegiate career at the SEC Championships.
Last season, Spink won the women’s 50 free (21.77) and 100 free (46.69) as a freshman while finishing as the runner-up in the 200 free (1:42.37).
Now a sophomore, Spink went undefeated individually at the 2025 SECs, becoming the first female swimmer to sweep the 50, 100 and 200 free at the conference meet since 2007, setting lifetime bests across the board.
Spink opened the meet by winning the 50 free in 21.23, defending her title and knocking a tenth off her previous best of 21.33 set in November at the Tennessee Invite.
Then, in the 200 free, Spink went head-to-head with fellow sophomore Erin Gemmell of Texas and came out on top, clocking 1:42.06 to win the title for the first time. Spink’s swim improved on her previous best of 1:42.37, set at last year’s SECs when she was the runner-up to Florida’s Isabel Ivey.
Closing out her individual program in the 100 free, Spink lowered her PB of 46.61 set earlier in the season in 46.25 to dominate the rest of the field, with teammate Brooklyn Douthwright a distant runner-up in 47.44.
Although Spink reset her best times in all three events, she maintains her place as the 2nd-fastest swimmer in Tennessee school history across the board, as former Lady Vol Erika Brown owns school records in the 50 free (21.03), 100 free (45.83) and 200 free (1:41.66).
Spink also played a crucial role on both of Tennessee’s winning relays at the meet, splitting 1:41.28 swimming second as they topped the 800 free relay by nearly two seconds in 6:49.83, a new school record, and throwing down a blistering 46.01 second leg on the 4×100 free relay that won the title in 3:09.02—five one-hundredths off the school record set last year.
Spink also split 21.46 on Tennessee’s 200 free relay that finished 3rd (1:26.49), and anchored in 46.32 on the 4×100 medley relay that finished as the runner-ups (3:25.18), both less than half a second shy of the school record.
Heading into the NCAA Championships (with Big 12s still ongoing), Spink ranks 4th in the NCAA in the 50 free, 3rd in the 100 free and 8th in the 200 free.
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Spink WAS the Swimmer of the Meet at SEC’s–but coaches chose to give it to someone else.
Vitriol the process much? Spink is amazing and will continue to have an amazing career. We live in a democracy.
I mean it’s kinda funny how swimming is a completely objective sport…and then there’s an award that ppl vote on, just for funsies? Either you’re swimmer of the meet or you’re not. If they have the same score they both win. That’s how it works.