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Saturday February 23, 2013

Florida Men Claim 2013 SEC Swimming & Diving Championship

Gainesville, Fla.

The Florida men’s swimming and diving team won the 2013 SEC Championship Saturday night in College Station, Texas. The Gators broke Auburn’s streak of 16-straight SEC Championships, the third-longest streak for a single program in SEC sports history. The UF men finished first with 1,408 points and had four individual championships and one relay championship.

“It’s great for the guys,” Head Coach Gregg Troy said. “We have been chasing Auburn and nipping at their heels every year and we’ve been close a couple of them. I think this kind of takes us over the top from the standpoint that it gets the monkey off our back. It’s a good building point towards the NCAA meet and it’s not an end in itself but it certainly is a good conference win.”

This is the 34^th SEC title for the men’s team, the most of any school in the conference as Auburn is the next closest with 18. Florida last won the SEC Championship in 1993, breaking a 20-year streak and having finished runner-up for 11 years. The Gators collected four titles, had 10 top three finishers and 27 top eight finishes. Junior Marcin Cieslak (Warsaw, Poland) led the team with two titles as he won in both the 100 and 200 fly.

“The SEC is always competitive,” said Troy. “When you add two good teams like Missouri and Texas A&M this meet was actually very comparable with the NCAA meet a couple of years ago in a lot of events.”

Final Team Standings
Men:
1. Florida – 1,408
2. Auburn – 1,196
3. Georgia – 1,024
4. Tennessee – 787.5
5. Missouri – 779.5
6. LSU – 753.5
7. Texas A&M – 709.5
8. South Carolina – 540.5
9. Kentucky – 452.5
10. Alabama – 451

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