SEC Weekly Preview: Tennessee Faces Florida Eyeing Momentum

Tennessee's Kira Toussaint. Photo Courtesy: David Farr

By Dan D’Addona.

The SEC season is winding down but there is still plenty of action this week as teams prepare for the conference championship.

Many of the meets are tune-ups, but there is one big meet this weekend in the SEC.

Florida hosts Tennessee on senior day in a meet that could be a little bit of a preview of what could happen at the SEC meet.

The Florida men have had their ups and downs this season and come into the meet ranked No. 10, thought they should be fighting for a team trophy at the NCAA championships.
The Gators will look to put the pieces together against No. 20 Tennessee on Saturday and build some momentum heading into SECs.

The same is true for the Tennessee women. The women are ranked No. 15 this week as they head to No. 20 Florida.

Georgia and Texas A&M have established themselves as the SEC leaders, but Auburn, Missouri, Tennessee and Florida all are ranked in the top 20 and have a lot of firepower.

Tennessee is led by Kira Toussaint, a 2016 Rio Olympian for the Netherlands. She is a backstroker and sprinter, someone that can anchor the Volunteer relays in the postseason.

This is the chance for the Tennessee women to build some momentum as they look to join that upper echelon at the SEC championships.

This should be a pretty interesting dual meet.

Weekend roundup

There are several other meets happening in the SEC this weekend. On Friday, Kentucky swims at Cincinnati, and South Carolina host an invite, while the Texas A&M men swim against SMU.

On Friday and Saturday, LSU hosts Houston, Rice and Tulane and Missouri hosts an invite.

The other Saturday meets are Kansas at Arkansas and Emory, a Division III power in Atlanta, at Georgia.

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