Alabama Swimming and Diving Set for SEC Championships in Knoxville, Tenn.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The Alabama swimming and diving teams are set to get things rolling at the 2022 Southeastern Conference Championships in Knoxville, Tenn., Tuesday morning. The meet spans five days, with prelims and finals each day, and comes to a close Saturday.

The championships start with a pair of diving events and two relays on Tuesday, before the full slate of events get underway Wednesday. Tuesday's prelims start at 9:30 a.m. CT, while finals start at 3:20 p.m. CT. For the rest of the week, swimming prelims start at 8:30 a.m. CT, diving prelims at 11 a.m. CT and swimming and diving finals at 4:30 p.m. CT.

Every session of the 2022 SEC Championships will be streamed live on SEC Network+, through WatchESPN.com and the WatchESPN app.

Top Seeds

Coming to the 2022 SEC Championships, Alabama is seeded No. 1 in nine different individual events:
- Rhyan White (100 and 200 backstrokes)
- Kensey McMahon (500 and 1,650 freestyle)
- Kalia Antoniou (50 and 100 freestyles)
- Matt Menke (100 backstroke)
- Derek Maas (200 breaststroke)
- Avery Wiseman (200 breaststroke)
The Crimson Tide is also seeded No. 1 in the conference in six relays:
- The women's 200 & 400 freestyle relay and 200 & 400 medley relays
- The men's 200 & 400 medley relays

Regular-Season Highlights

The Crimson Tide broke six school records during the regular season, with four individual marks and two relay standards
Alabama put 32 performances on UA's all-time top-10 lists during the regular season
The Tide had four student-athletes earn six individual swims at the 2022 NCAA Championships
The Tide also saw the women's team garner automatic cuts in all five relays, while the men punched their tickets in three
In addition to 14 automatic cuts, Tide swimmers also accumulated 83 NCAA provisional cuts
Alabama divers have earned 15 bids to the 2022 NCAA Zone B Diving Championships, the diver's gateway to the NCAA Championships.

NCAA Championships Tickets Punched

Derek Maas (100 breaststroke), Kensey McMahon (1,650 freestyle), Rhyan White (100 and 200 backstroke) and Avery Wiseman (100 and 200 breaststroke) have all posted times that bettered the NCAA automatic standard, earning them berths at the national championships
The Tide women also punched their tickets in the 200, 400 and 800 freestyle relays as well as the 200 and 400 medley relays, while the men's 200 and 400 medley relays and 400 freestyle relay have already claimed championship berths
The Alabama women's 400 freestyle relay will return to NCAAs as the defending national champions

New School Records

Alabama has already broken six school marks during the regular season, with Derek Maas and Avery Wiseman claiming two each, while the UA woman broke the 200 freestyle and 400 medley relay marks
Maas broke the school 200 individual medley mark by more than half a second with a 1:43.12 and bettered the 100 breaststroke mark with a 51.38
Wiseman absolutely demolished the school 100 and 200 breaststroke marks, using a 57.79 to break the 100 standard by more than a half a second and the going 2:05.46 to chop more than two seconds off the old 200 record
In addition to breaking the school record, the 200 freestyle relay quartet of Kalia Antoniou, Morgan Scott, Kailyn Winter and Cora Dupre broke the Allan Jones Aquatic Center and Tennessee Invitational meet record with their combined 1:26.38
Rhyan White, Wiseman, Scott and Antoniou combined to post a 3:27.18 to break the UA record in the 400 medley relay

The 2021 SEC Championships

In 2021, Alabama women finished fourth (973 points) and the men took fifth (802 points) at the SEC Championships
Rhyan White earned the SEC Commissioner's Trophy (individual high-point scorer) and was voted both the SEC Swimmer of the Year and the SEC Championships Swimmer of the Meet in 2021
Alabama returns three individual SEC Champions who brought home five titles at last year's championships, including White (100 & 200 backstroke, 100 butterfly), Kalia Antoniou (50 freestyle) and Morgan Scott (100 freestyle)
White also won the 100 and 200 backstrokes in 2020, setting SEC Championship records in both events
Alabama also won the women's 200 medley relay as well as the 200 and 400 freestyle relays and the men's 400 freestyle relay

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