Swim and Dive Readies for SEC Championships

Columbia, Mo. – The University of Missouri Swim and Dive program is Alabama-bound for the third time this season as they take on the 2024 SEC Swimming and Diving Championships in Auburn, Ala.

The five-day event is slated to take place from Tuesday, Feb. 20 to Saturday, Feb. 24 inside the James E. Martin Aquatics Center. All the action will be streamed on SEC Network+.

At last season’s SEC Championships, the Tigers men’s squad came home in sixth place (725.5 points), while the women finished 11th (418), as Jack Dahlgren claimed two medals over the weekend.

Florida has owned the men’s side of the tournament since Mizzou became members of the SEC, winning each crown since the 2012-13 season. Before then, Auburn’s men had a reign of 16 straight years. Since its inception in 1936, only five other schools have finished as top squads at the SEC Championships (Georgia Tech, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, LSU).

The women’s sector contains more parity, as five different programs have claimed titles since 2014-15. Last year, Florida became the first school since Auburn in 2007-08 to take both men’s and women’s crowns.

MEDAL WATCH

• Collier Dyer currently ranks third in the platform dive with his massive score of 402.30. He also sits seventh in the SEC in both the 1-meter and 3-meter dive, boasting scores of 373.65 and 398.90, respectively.
• Kamryn Wong’s 356.78 standing in the 3-meter is the second-highest score amongst SEC divers this season. She’s also seventh in the 1-meter (304.43).
• Jan Zubik stands fifth in the 200 fly (1:43.26) entering the conference championship meet.
• Taylor Williams owns the seventh-fastest time in the 100 fly this season at 52.33.
• Grant Bochenski’s 45.60 in the 100 back sits seventh among league competition.
• Ty Spillane (52.83) and Will Goodwin (52.85) both feature in the top ten amongst 100 breast swimmers heading into SEC’s.
• Goodwin also sits fourth in the 200 breaststroke (1:54.01) thus far.

LAST TIME OUT: TIGER QUALIFIER

• The Tigers celebrated Senior Day at the Mizzou Aquatic Center on Feb. 3.
• The team set multiple season highs, most notably Collier Dyer’s monster score of 402.30 in the preliminary round of the platform dive. He became the first diver in NCAA Division I to amass 400 points in the event this season.
• Abbey Taute’s mark of 1:57.96 in the 200 back was also the fastest time by a Tiger thus far.

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