By Madeline Folsom on SwimSwam
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 Prelims: Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 Finals: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6In 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- 165Last 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
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