Alabama Swimming and Diving Breaks Six School Records on Day Three of the SEC Championships

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Alabama Swimming and Diving Breaks Six School Records on Day Three of the SEC Championships

2/20/2020 8:24:00 PM | Swimming & Diving

Photo Gallery`2020 SEC Championships Results Day 3

Sophomore Rhyan White lowered her school 100 butterfly record twice on the way to a silver-medal finish

AUBURN, Ala. – The Alabama swimming and diving teams continued to rewrite the school record board, breaking six records on day three of the 2020 Southeastern Conference Championships being held at the James E. Martin Aquatics Center on the Auburn University campus this week.

Sophomore Rhyan White led the charge for the Crimson Tide, bettering her own school record in prelims and finals on the way to taking silver in the women's 100 butterfly. In prelims, she posted a 50.93 to become the first UA woman under 51 seconds in the event, before going 50.80 in finals. Junior Flora Molnar also scored in the 100 butterfly, taking sixth with a 51.94.

Sophomore Nicholas Perera bettered his own school record in the men's 400 individual medley in both prelims and finals, using a 3:42.61 to take fourth place. After breaking the school record in the women's 400 individual medley with a 4:06.83 in prelims, senior Alexis Preski came back in finals to take fifth with a 4:07.95.

Junior Tyler Sesvold posted career-best times in the prelims and finals of the men's 100 butterfly, finishing fifth, with a 45.76.

Sophomore Morgan Scott had a big drop between prelims and finals in the women's 200 freestyle, going a career-best 1:44.32 to win the B final, taking sixth overall, and setting a new UA record.

The Tide men finished the day in fourth place in the team race, with 438.5 points, while the women are in seventh with 351.5 points.

Head Coach Coley Stickels Said

"We had some great swims again today, breaking school records in four different events, including two that went down in both prelims and finals. Rhyan just keeps getting better, taking silver in the 100 butterfly with a new school record. Alexis and Nicholas took down the 400 IM records and scored in the championship final. Flora and Tyler also scored in the championship finals of the 100 fly tonight, which was big for us. Morgan took down the school record with a time that will likely get her to NCAAs in the 200 free. Mallory Underwood, Colton Stogner and Cam Auerbach all had big swims this morning to get into finals and followed it up with great races tonight. We have two more days and we can't let up. If we want to do what we came here to do, we have to keep pushing to the last wall."

Another Record Day

After breaking five different school records through the first two days of the championships, Alabama broke six more on Wednesday.
Preski dropped four seconds off her career-best time in prelims to take the women's 400 individual medley mark, going to 4:06.83 to better the previous mark set in 2016.
Perera bettered his own school standard set last year at this meet in the men's 400 individual medley, going 3:43.61 during the morning session and then dropped it another second in finals, going 3:42.61.
White, who became the first woman to go under 52 seconds in the women's 100 butterfly earlier this season, became the first to go under 51 seconds on Wednesday, bettering her own school record with a 50.97 in prelims, and lowering it again in finals to 50.80.
Scott dropped more than a second off her career-best time in the finals of the women's 200 freestyle to set the new UA mark at 1:44.32.

Coming Up

Friday includes three individual swimming events, a diving event and a relay.
Prelims getting underway at 9:30 a.m., and finals starting at 5:30 p.m.
The Crimson Tide will compete in the men's and women's 200 butterfly, 100 backstroke and 100 breaststroke as well as the men's platform before closing with the 400 medley relay on the championships' fourth day.
Senior Zane Waddell, the 2020 SEC 50 freestyle and 200 freestyle relay champion, is seeded second in the men's 100 backstroke, while White is seeded second in the women's 100 backstroke.

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