GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The No. 4/7 Florida men’s and women’s swimming & diving programs head to Athens, Ga., for their midseason competition at the 2025 Georgia Fall Invitational, hosted at the Bulldogs’ Gabrielsen Natatorium. The Gators look to extend their Invite success with a third consecutive invitational sweep.

The Invite will feature four full days of competition, beginning Tuesday, Nov. 18 with finals in the 1,650-yard freestyle, 200-yard medley relay and 800-yard freestyle relay at 2 p.m. Action continues Wednesday through Friday with preliminaries each morning at 9:30 a.m., while diving prelims begin at 11:30 a.m. on all three days. Evening finals will start at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, with diving finals at 6 p.m. before closing Friday’s competition with a 5 p.m. finals session and platform diving contested at 11:30 a.m.

The Gators swept the Georgia Invitational the last two seasons, as the men’s team scored 1157.50 points and the women’s team finished with 1156.50 points.

Team Competing

Alabama, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech and LSU

How to Watch

Swimming and diving prelims and finals will be streamed on SECN+ for authenticated subscribers of the network. Links for the live stream are available on the swim & dive schedule pages on Floridagators.com. Fans can follow Meet Mobile and DiveMeets for updated results.

Gators Last Time Out vs. Georgia

Florida opened SEC competition with a home dual-meet sweep over No. 8/12 Georgia on Friday, Oct. 31. The Gator men posted a 191-154 victory, while the women secured a 194-145 win.

The Gators swept both relay events and collected 14 individual victories across the 24 combined events. Six women recorded eight NCAA cut times, while Ahmed Jaouadi and Josh Liendo each recorded one for the men on Friday.

Liendo led the Gators with a team-high 27 points in his first competition back since representing Canada at the 2025 World Aquatics World Cup. The senior swept his individual events, winning the 50-yard freestyle (18.68), the 50-yard butterfly (19.69) and the 50-yard fly with an NCAA qualifying time of 43.87. Liendo also contributed to both winning relays, swimming the fly leg (19.42) on the 200-medley relay and anchoring the 200-free relay with an 18.54 split to close out the meet.

On the women’s side, Anita Bottazzo and Catie Choate each led the Gators with 27 points, winning two individual events apiece and recording two NCAA qualifying times on Friday. Choate led off Florida’s winning 200-yard medley relay with a 24.10 back split before Bottazzo followed with a 25.74 breaststroke leg, helping the Gators post a first-place time of 1:37.09.

Order of Events

Tuesday, Nov. 18 | Stream on SECN+

2 p.m.                   M/W 1,650y Freestyle (finals)

                             M/W 200y Medley Relay (finals)

                             M/W 800y Freestyle Relay (finals)

Wednesday, Nov. 19

9:30 a.m.            Stream on SECN+

                             M/W 100y Butterfly (prelims)

                             M/W 400y IM (prelims)

                             M/W 200y Freestyle (prelims)

                             M/W 100y Breaststroke (prelims)

 

11:30 a.m.         Stream on SECN+

                             W 1-meter Diving (prelims)

                             M 3-meter Diving (prelims)

 

5:30 p.m.           Stream on SECN+

                             M/W 100y Butterfly (finals)

                             M/W 400y IM (finals)

                             M/W 200y Freestyle (finals)

                             M/W 100y Breaststroke (finals)

                             M/W 200y Freestyle Relay (finals)

 

6 p.m.                 Stream on SECN+

                             W 1-meter Diving (finals)

                             M 3-meter Diving (finals)

Thursday, Nov. 20

9:30 a.m.            Stream on SECN+

                             M/W 100y Backstroke (prelims)

                             M/W 200y Breaststroke (prelims)

                             M/W 500y Freestyle (prelims)

                             M/W 50y Freestyle (prelims)

 

11:30 a.m.         Stream on SECN+

                             W 3-meter Diving (prelims)

                             M 1-meter Diving (prelims)

 

5:30 p.m.           Stream on SECN+

                             M/W 100y Backstroke (finals)

                             M/W 200y Breaststroke (finals)

                             M/W 500y Freestyle (finals)

                             M/W 50y Freestyle (finals)

                             M/W 400y Medley Relay (finals)

 

6 p.m.                 Stream on SECN+

                             W 3-meter Diving (finals)

                             M 1-meter Diving (finals)

Friday, Nov. 21

9:30 a.m.            Stream on SECN+

                             M/W 200y IM (prelims)

                             M/W 100y Freestyle (prelims)

                             M/W 200y Butterfly (prelims)

                             M/W 200y Backstroke (prelims)

11:30 a.m.         Stream on SECN+

                           M/W Platform Diving (prelims & finals)

 

5 p.m.                 Stream on SECN+

                            M/W 200y IM (finals)

                             M/W 100y Freestyle (finals)

                             M/W 200y Butterfly (finals)

                             M/W 200y Backstroke (finals)

                             M/W 400y Freestyle Relay (finals)

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