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By David Rieder.<\/em><\/p>\n

Late Friday night, I was looking for Connor<\/strong> Oslin<\/strong>. The Alabama senior had just won the SEC title in the 100 back for the third year in a row, becoming the sixth-fastest performer of all-time in the process. I wanted to find out\u00a0what made that race so special for Oslin.<\/p>\n

But while I was waiting to interview him, I noticed some event staff pull down the card marking Alabama\u2019s seating area and replace it with one reading \u201cLSU.\u201d That area, just behind the lane eight block, would belong\u00a0to the Tigers for the Saturday morning session, and then the women\u2019s teams from Vanderbilt and Arkansas would share those bleachers for Saturday’s finals.<\/p>\n

This wasn’t a case of some rogue meet managers moving teams around for no apparent reason. The conference\u2019s coaches had agreed upon this system of rotating seating\u00a0so that each team would have an opportunity to sit in the prime spots along the competition pool.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe coaches actually voted to implement this process three years ago,\u201d SEC swimming and diving sport administrator Brett Thompson<\/strong> explained. \u201cI think it gives a fairer opportunity for each team to have that prime location. I think it works really well, and they all seem to be supportive of it and like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

South Carolina head coach McGee Moody<\/strong> explained that in the past, it was first come, first serve. Whatever team arrived late was out of luck for the entire meet.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you were the last, you got whatever was left over and most of the time spent the entire meet off the race course. And that was hard,\u201d Moody said. \u201cYou have your teams that pick first, and they\u2019re still going to spend the most time on the race course, but this puts everybody on the 25-yard racing lanes at least for a few sessions during the meet. I like it better.\u201d<\/p>\n

The coach explained that it\u2019s not simply a matter of convenience since swimmers can feed off having teammates cheering within in their line of vision, particularly in the longer freestyle events.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of these teams are putting a lot of folks back in finals, and so having your team able to stand there in the 25-yard racing lanes up and down the pool is a benefit,\u201d Moody said. \u201cPlus, honestly, when you have a distance event, 500s, even 200s to a point, your kids know where your team is sitting, and they can see them when they\u2019re swimming, and so it adds to that environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The SEC\u2019s seating tradition only goes back two years, but the teams\u2019 fans have rotated sections for even longer. Each school’s supporters are assigned a particular section to sit in for one session and move down the pool session by\u00a0session, moving from the diving well towards the scoreboard. The event staff helps facilitate that process, too.<\/p>\n

For instance, for Saturday night\u2019s finals, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Texas A&M all had prime viewing locations, while the fans of host Tennessee took their turn in the far corner\u2014after getting their turn in the middle of the pool Thursday.<\/p>\n

Of course, it hasn’t been the seating assignments that have been behind all the press the SEC meet has gotten this week. Understandably, the focus has been on\u00a0Caeleb Dressel<\/strong>\u00a0continuing\u00a0his run of ridiculous times in the sprint events, the Texas A&M women flexing their depth on their way to a second-straight conference championship and other Olympians like Chase Kalisz<\/strong> and Olivia Smoliga<\/strong> all posting quality efforts.<\/p>\n

But what makes the SEC meet perhaps the most exciting of any conference championship is the size and depth. There was the high-quality battle between the A&M and Georgia women for the team title, and behind those teams the battle between Kentucky, Tennessee and Auburn for third.<\/p>\n

On the men\u2019s side, nothing that transpired this week changes the fact that six different teams could finish in the top ten nationally<\/a> if they perform up to their capabilities next month in Indianapolis. The conference remains by far the deepest in the country.<\/p>\n

No other conference meet involves 12 teams and 22 total squads (Arkansas and Vanderbilt are women’s teams only), and no other meet extends for five full days to give athletes the best opportunity to be fresh for their prime events. That combination creates such an intense atmosphere that cannot be matched by perhaps any other conference in the country.<\/p>\n

And with the unique seating arrangements, every swimmer gets a chance to race with their teammates, coaches and fans up close and personal.<\/p>\n

All commentaries are the opinion of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Swimming World Magazine nor its staff.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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