The Tennessee women highlighted day five preliminaries with a strong showing in the\u00a0100-yard freestyle. The Volunteers placed four swimmers in the event’s\u00a0A final. They currently trail first place Texas A&M by just 19 points.<\/p>\n
Georgia’s\u00a0Hali Flickinger\u00a0<\/strong>continued her strong meet on Saturday’s preliminary races, posting the fastest time of the\u00a0women’s 200-yard backstroke heats. The senior posted a time of 1:50.95. Kentucky’s\u00a0Danielle Galyer\u00a0<\/strong>touched second and Texas A&M’s\u00a0Lisa Bratton\u00a0<\/strong>posted the third fastest time of the morning.<\/p>\n In the men’s event, Auburn’s\u00a0Joe Patching\u00a0<\/strong>and Tennessee’s\u00a0Sean Lehane <\/strong>tied for first with a time of 1:40.89. Missouri’s\u00a0Carter Griffin\u00a0<\/strong>touched third.<\/p>\n Florida’s\u00a0Natalie Hinds\u00a0<\/strong>touched first in the women’s 100-yard freestyle. She posted a time of 47.44. Tennessee’s\u00a0Kira Toussaint<\/strong> and Georgia’s\u00a0Olivia Smoliga\u00a0<\/strong>were second and third, respectively.<\/p>\n Caeleb Dressel\u00a0<\/strong>continued to dominate in the men’s event, winning all heats\u00a0with the fastest time in the nation this season. He touched in 41.71. Auburn’s\u00a0Peter Holoda\u00a0<\/strong>was second and Missouri’s\u00a0Michael Chadwick\u00a0<\/strong>touched third.<\/p>\n In the women’s 200-yard breaststroke, Alabama’s\u00a0Bridget Blood\u00a0<\/strong>led the way with a time of 2:08.25. She was followed by Georgia’s\u00a0Annie Zhu\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Sydney Pickrem\u00a0<\/strong>of Texas A&M.<\/p>\n Alabama’s Anton McKee<\/strong> was first in the men’s 200-yard breaststroke preliminary. He touched in 1:54.09. He was followed by Texas A&M’s\u00a0Mauro Castillo Luna<\/strong> and Missouri’s\u00a0Fabian Schwingenschlogl.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Tennessee women highlighted day five preliminaries with a strong showing in the\u00a0100-yard freestyle. The Volunteers placed four swimmers in the event’s\u00a0A final. They currently trail first place Texas A&M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":55622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[56751],"class_list":["post-186329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college","tag-2016-southeastern-conference-championships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n