﻿{"id":5022,"date":"2003-02-23T12:32:50","date_gmt":"2003-02-23T17:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/uncategorized\/2003\/02\/ncaa-div-i-auburns-tigers-sweep-the-secs\/"},"modified":"2014-07-25T06:51:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T13:51:35","slug":"ncaa-div-i-auburns-tigers-sweep-the-secs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ncaa-div-i-auburns-tigers-sweep-the-secs\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Div. I: Auburn&#8217;s Tigers Sweep the SECs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUBURN, Ala., February 22.  WHEN it was all over, when the last splash was splashed, the last award given and the applause had finally died down, David Marsh could only feel a sigh of relief and a sense of great<br \/>\naccomplishment.<\/p>\n<p>His Auburn Tigers women&#39;s and men&#39;s swimming teams, HIS teams, the teams he had nutured, cajoled &#8212; nay, driven into being the &quot;best they could be,&quot; had just  won the Southeastern Conference Championships after all the buildup, all the hoopla and above all &#8230;all the hype.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Yes, we felt the pressure going in but we responded like the champions these teams are,&quot; Marsh said.  &quot;We knew every school in the conference would be after us, what with the meet being at our home pool and all, but we just went out and performed and you see the results.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The results show the Tigers winning both the women&#39;s and men&#39;s championships for the first time ever.  <\/p>\n<p>Auburn has won nine of the last 10 SEC men&#39;s titles but had never won a women&#39;s crown until this evening, despite the fact that they&#39;re defending NCAA Division 1 champs.  Florida&#39;s women were defending league titleists.<\/p>\n<p>Auburn thus becomes only the second school besides Florida to win both a women&#39;s and a men&#39;s title, let alone do it in the same season. The last time this feat was acconplished was by Florida a decade ago,<\/p>\n<p>Auburn&#39;s men scored 918.5 points, most-ever in a championship,  The previous record was 864 by Florida.  The Tiger women scored 845 to secure their<br \/>\ninitial title.   Last year, Auburn scored 766 to win the men&#39;s title while Florida scored 742.5 to win the women&#39;s.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I told our kids, &#39;Don&#39;t even think about [NCAAs] until Monday,&#39;&quot; Marsh added.  &quot;I told them to savor the moment, enjoy their championships and Monday we go back to work.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Auburn is host institution for the NCAA women&#39;s DI Championship that begins March 20 while Texas is the site of the men&#39;s meet beginning a week later.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I am very pleased with the performance of our team,&quot; Marsh said. &quot;I do not want the team to think about the NCAA Championships, they need to soak in this one. This win is worthy of a celebration. I want them to understand the magnitude of this event. It is an incredible accomplishment.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>*     *      *      *       *<\/p>\n<p>Auburn received solid performances from all its swimmers and divers but four standout in particular.   First is sophomore backstroker Margaret Hoelzer, who set an SEC record en route to the 200 title (nation-leading 1:52.83), a time which makes her the second-fastest performer of all-time.<\/p>\n<p>Next, junior dorsal  specialist Bryce Hunt, who similarly set an SEC record in the 200 (1:41.73) and as was the case with Hoelzer the No. 1 national time.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#39;s freshman sprinter-flyer Fred Bousquet, who won the 50 free opening-night, set an SEC record enrotue to the gold in the 100 fly Friday evening and tonight took a bronze in the 100 free (pr 43.02). To make sure he didn&#39;t feel unappreciated, Marsh had his French import also anchor the winning 200-400 medley relays.<\/p>\n<p>But Bousquet&#39;s evening of work was far from done after the 100 free, indeed not.<\/p>\n<p>After Florida&#39;s Carlos Jayme set an SEC record while winning the 100 free (42.89), Bousquets and Marsh huddled, deep in conference.  Neither was willing to reveal what sas said but this much is known:  with the meet well in hand Auburn could have tanked the 400 free relay &#8212; the final event of  the program &#8212; and saved its Big Guns for NCAAs.<\/p>\n<p>Not a chance.<\/p>\n<p>With Bousquet leading off in an SEC recofrd-breaking 42.63, Auburn set a conference-record with its national No. 1 2:51.96.  Florida was second in 2:55.29.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Oh, no, we wouldn&#39;t have considered that [easing up on the relay].  We&#39;re here to swim fast, that&#39;s our whole objective.  Fred thought he had a chance at bettering (Jayme&#39;s) record so we had him lead off.  Pretty smart, eh?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>What was even smarter was recruitng Bousquet in the first place.  He was a talent, to be sure, but an unknown one and Marsh took a big gamble in saving a<br \/>\nscholarship for him earlier this year.  The whole scenario could have backfired but instead it gave the Tigers the one big &quot;horse&quot; they needed to be competitive with Cal and Florida in the sprints.<\/p>\n<p>Auburn diver Caeser Garcia also contributed mightily to the Tger victory, winning the platform diving competition tonight after taking silver on the 3-meter.  He won by more than 100 points too with 672.50.<\/p>\n<p>*    *     *     *      *<\/p>\n<p>Florida freshman Ryan Lochte got the Gators off to a fast start when he stroked to a pr 14:55.03 to win  the 1650 free, giving him four golds for the meet<br \/>\n(he also scored wins in the 500 free-400 IM and led off Florida&#39;s SEC record-setting 800 free relay.(<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers&#39; B.J. Jones finished  fourth in a season-best 15:15.03 and teammate Magda Dyszkiewicz took second for the women with an NCAA &quot;A&quot; cut of 16:17.42.  Florida&#39;s Sara McLarty, who scored a gold in the 500 free, won with an &quot;A&quot; cut 16:07.45.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I am happy to put points on the board for Auburn,&quot; Dyszkiewicz said. &quot;I wasn&#39;t completely happy with my swim time, but I&#39;ll take it and swim better next race.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Continuing Auburn&#39;s record-breaking style was Bryce Hunt who recorded an SEC-record in the 200-backstroke with his No. 1 national  1:41.73. The previous record was set in 2000 by Florida&#39;s Matt Cole (1:41.76).  Hunt has been chasing this title for the last three years as he finished second in 2002, third in 2001.  He&#39;s now 12th on the all-time performers&#39; list  with<br \/>\nthe 21st-fastest performance.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I am thrilled to death to finally win this event,&quot; Hunt said. &quot;I had some great competition in this race and that pushed me. I am a little surprised at how fast my time was, but setting the SEC record is awesome.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps drawing inspiration from Hunt&#39;s swim, Tiger Hoelzer,, who won the SEC 200 back title as a frshman last season and had a pr of 1:54.54 from last season&#39;s NCAAs, next stepped up to the blocks to defend her title.  Exactly 1:52.83 later she emerged with her second goal in as many tries, the SEC-record and she&#39;s now No. 2 all-time on the al-time peformers&#39; list.<\/p>\n<p>Teammate Kristy Coventry challenged Hoelzer throughout the race, but finished second for the second-consecutive year. However, if it&#39;s any consolation, she is also under the old SEC-record of 1:53.87 by Georgia&#39;s Keegan Walkley.<\/p>\n<p>How good is 1:52.83?  Well, in addition to becoming the second-best performer in the race&#39;s history Hoelzer also is now No. 5 on  the performances&#39; list, surpassing Texas&#39; Whitney Hedgepeth&#39;s 1:52.98 that won<br \/>\nNCAAs at Austin 11 years ago. But she&#39;s got a ways to go before she&#39;s going to catch No. 1, the double-defending NCAA champ, won won at Austin last season in 1:49.52 &#8212; the curent American\/NCAA standard.<\/p>\n<p>This person &#8212; who for obvious reasons shall forever remain anonymous but whose intitials are &quot;NC&quot; &#8212; also has perforamcnes 2-4 too.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I certainly did not think I would go this fast tonight; I was hoping to go around 1:53,&quot; Hoelzer said. &quot;This morning I held back because the goal was<br \/>\njust to get into finals and then bust out tonight. I have the 200 fly soon after this, so I have to conserve my energy  wherever I can.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>After setting an SEC record in the 100 freestyle in the heats, Tiger sophomore Ryan Wochomurka matched his morning time of 42.98 thjis evening but placed second behind Florida&#39;s Jayme&#39;s record-breaking 42.89. Bousquet and Matt Kidd, a British Olympian, took third and fourth for the home team and Bousquet made short shrift of that 42.8 record a bit later.<\/p>\n<p>Auburn had five finalists in the women&#39;s 100 freestyle but none were quick enough to catch defending NCAA champ Maritza Correia of Georgia, who clocked a pr and SEC-record 47.49 to win &#8212; .02 off the American\/NCAA record.  Ritzy  stays No. 2 on both the all-time performers&#39; and performances&#39; lists.  No. 1?  The same woman who also holds Ameican\/NCAA records in the 200 free, the 100-200 yard backstrokes and the 100-200 yard butterflys.  Oh, she&#39;s also wrold record-holder in the 100 merer backstroke and the only woman ever under 1:00.0 for that race.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger junior Eileen Coparropa, who won golds at last fall&#39;s Central American-Carribbean Games in the 50-100 frees for her native Panana, was second in 48.69. Her time is a  pr and Auburn record too, not to mention an<br \/>\nNCAA auto cut. Third was teammate Becky Short (48.45)  who went a swift 49.03 in the prelims to also make the &quot;A&quot; standard.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It was a hard race. It was actually a unique race in that I got to swim with so many of my teammates. That usually doesn&#39;t happen very often. It allowed me to be confident,&quot; Coparropa said. &quot;I am not upset at all. I swam a great race. I set a new Auburn record and am very pleased with my swim.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Geogia recorded its first men&#39;s victory of the Championship when junior breaststroker Kyle Salyardes won in an &quot;A&quot; cut 1:55.67, tying his Bulldog record from last year&#39;s NCAAs. Runner-up was Alabama freshman Vladimir Polyakov (pr 1:56.67) while Auburn swept the three, four and five positions as Justin Caron clocked a seasonal pr 1:56.92, Mark Gangloff finished fourth, also with (1:58.32) and 100 breast champ Pat Calhoun was fifth (1:58.50).<\/p>\n<p>The women&#39;s 200 breast saw Alabama&#39;s Ann Poleska, defending SEC champ and record-holder too, set a pool-record with her 2:09.02, just shy of her conference-record 2:08.85 from two years ago.  Her Crimson Tide record is 2:07.86 from last year&#39;s NCAAs, ranking her fourth and sixth on the all-time performers and performances&#39; lists.  She&#39;s a member of her native Germany&#39;s national team and will be looking to medal at this summer&#39;s World Championships in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>Runner-up was Georgia freshman Sarah Poewe,(2:12.13).  Poewe in the past has represented South Africa internationally but is now a German citizen and is<br \/>\nhopeful of joining Poleska at Barcelona in July &#8212; depending on the outcome of the German Trials in a couple of months.  Auburn&#39;s Laura Swander (2:13.60) took the bronze.<\/p>\n<p>*     *     *      *        *<\/p>\n<p>The final two individual rces, the 200 butterflys, saw more record-breaking On the women&#39;s side, Georgia&#39;s Mary DeScenza &#8212; hoping to be the second-coming of you-know&#8211;who &#8212; went a pr, Georgia and SEC-record 1:54.80, breaking the old conference mark of 1:55.97 by Florida&#39;s Rebecca Harper from last season.  Her time now ranks her seventh on the all-time performers&#39; list (17th-performance) and she&#39;s also No. 2 nationally to Cal&#39;s Natalie Coughlin&#39;s American\/NCAA-record  1:51.91 from the Tiger Invitational here in early December.  DeScenza and Coughlin were World Championship teammates  two summers ago in Fukuoka and they&#39;ll have a reunion in a month here when NCAAs open.<\/p>\n<p>Inteerestingly, Harper was in tonight&#39;s final but finished third behind Auburn&#39;s Hoelzer, who went 1:57.27 for second.  Harper clocked 1:57.57.<\/p>\n<p>On the men&#39;s side,Alabama&#39;s Stefan Gherghel, defending NCAA champ, won with his pool-record 1:43.09. Auburn&#39;s<br \/>\nJeremy Knowles went a pr 1:44.16 for the silver and teamamte Andy Haidinyk was third (1:44.48). Gherghel&#39;s<br \/>\ntime vaults him into the No. 2 spot nationally, only trailing Arizona&#39;s Juan Veloz&#39;s 1:42.72 from the Longhorn Invitational atAustin in December.  Veloz<br \/>\nwill have an opportunity to imrpove upon his pr and perhaps break former Stanford great Pablo Morales&#39; conference-record of 1:42.60 when the Pac-10 has its meet at Belmont Plaza starting March 6.<\/p>\n<p>All that remained now was the 400 sprint relay and with Bousquet leading off in an SEC record-breaking and national No. 1:42.69, the Tigers broke the SEC<br \/>\nrecord with their 2:51.96.  The women followed suit wati a 3:16.75 victory and that was that.<\/p>\n<p>For  whatever reason, Georgia coach Jack Bauerle opted not to use Correia on the 400 free relay and the<br \/>\n&#39;Dawgs were second in 3:19+.  At NCAAs last year,<br \/>\nCorreia set the then record en route to gold in the 100 free (47.56), only to have Coughlin lead off the Golden Bears&#39; 400 relay in 47.47 &#8212; the current American\/NCAA recoord.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how it all plays out in am onth here but onething&#39;s certain: to &quot;beat the champ&quot; you have to &quot;beat the champ&quot; and so far this season&#39;s nobody&#39;s been able to do that on either the women&#39;s or men&#39;s side agaisnt Auburn.<\/p>\n<p>The Fat lady has just begun her tune.!<\/p>\n<p>SEC Men&#39;s and Women&#39;s Swimming and Diving Championships<br \/>\nJames E. Martin Aquatic Center<br \/>\nAuburn, AL<br \/>\nDay Four: Saturday, February 22, 2003<\/p>\n<p>RESULTS<\/p>\n<p>Men&#39;s Final Standings:<br \/>\n1.\tAuburn\t        918.5 (SEC Record)<br \/>\n2.\tFlorida\t\t680<br \/>\n3.\tGeorgia\t        492.5<br \/>\n4.\tTennessee\t455<br \/>\n5.\tAlabama\t        376<br \/>\n6.\tKentucky\t270.5<br \/>\n7.\tLSU\t\t218<br \/>\n8.\tSouth Carolina  188.5<\/p>\n<p>Men&#39;s High Point Scorer: Ryan Lochte, Florida<\/p>\n<p>Women&#39;s Final Standing:<br \/>\n1.\tAuburn\t        841.5<br \/>\n2.\tFlorida\t\t685<br \/>\n3.\tGeorgia\t        648.5<br \/>\n4.\tAlabama\t        316<br \/>\n5.\tTennessee\t278<br \/>\n6.\tSouth Carolina\t260<br \/>\n7.\tLSU\t\t247<br \/>\n8.\tArkansas\t244<br \/>\n9.\tKentucky\t212<\/p>\n<p>Women&#39;s High Point Scorer:<br \/>\nMaggie Bowen, Auburn, 60<\/p>\n<p>Event 29- Men&#39;s 1650-Yard Freestyle<br \/>\n1.\tRyan<br \/>\nLochte\t\t\tFlorida\t\t\t14:55.03<br \/>\n2.\tMatt Owen\t\t\tGeorgia\t\t15:09.75<br \/>\n3.\tRobert Margalis\t\tGeorgia\t\t15:13.25<br \/>\n4.\tBJ Jones\t\t\tAuburn\t\t15:15.03<br \/>\n5.\tJan  Wolfgarten\t\tFlorida\t\t\t15:16.64<br \/>\n6.\tScott Kaufmann\t\tFlorida\t\t\t15:17.69<br \/>\n7.\tGeorge duRand\t\tTennessee\t\t15:20.45<br \/>\n8.\tBrian<br \/>\nHartley\t\t\tFlorida\t\t\t15:22.34<\/p>\n<p>Event 30- Women&#39;s 1650-Yard Freestyle<br \/>\n1.\tSara McLarty\t\t\tFlorida\t\t\t16:07.45<br \/>\n(Pool Record)<br \/>\n2.\tMagda Dyskiewicz\t\tAuburn\t\t16:17.42<br \/>\n3.\tMeredith Green\t\tFlorida\t\t\t16:20.18<br \/>\n4.\tJulie Hardt\t\t\tGeorgia\t\t16:27.83<br \/>\n5.\tWhitney<br \/>\nLynn\t\t\tArkansas\t\t16:27.95<br \/>\n6.\tLaura Conway\t\t\tGeorgia\t\t16:33.96<br \/>\n7.\tJamie<br \/>\nTannhauser\t\tFlorida\t\t\t16:39.80<br \/>\n8.\tStephanie Smith\t\tLSU\t\t\t16:41.46<\/p>\n<p>Event 31- Women&#39;s Platform Diving<br \/>\n1.\tKylee Wells\t\t\tTennessee\t\t452.95<br \/>\n2.\tBarb Gorst\t\t\tLSU\t\t\t451.15<br \/>\n3.\tKelsey Patterson\t\tAuburn\t\t424.30<br \/>\n4.\tStacy Binyon\t\t\tTennessee\t\t386.15<br \/>\n5.\tAshley Rubenstein\t\tAuburn\t\t378.00<br \/>\n6.\tKatheryn Bortenlanger\tAlabama\t\t377.70<br \/>\n7.\tJessica Thompson\t\tKentucky\t\t366.95<br \/>\n8.\tCrystal Rasmussen\t\tAlabama\t\t329.15<\/p>\n<p>Event 32- Men&#39;s 200-Yard Backstroke<br \/>\n1.\tBryce Hunt\t\t\tAuburn\t\t1:41.73 (SEC<br \/>\nRecord)<br \/>\n2.\tChris Kellam\t\t\tFlorida\t\t\t1:42.57<br \/>\n3.\tJoey Faltraco\t\t\tKentucky\t\t1:42.99<br \/>\n4.\tKris Wiebeck\t\t\tFlorida\t\t\t1:44.61<br \/>\n5.\tPaulo Machado\t\tTennessee\t\t1:45.39<br \/>\n6.\tChad Barlow\t\t\tAuburn\t\t1:45.42<br \/>\n7.\tClaudio Ulrich\t\t\tFlorida\t\t\t1:46.91<br \/>\n8.\tGeorge duRand\t\tTennessee\t\t1:47.23<\/p>\n<p>Event 33- Women&#39;s 200-Yard Backstroke<br \/>\n1.\tMargaret Hoelzer\t\tAuburn\t\t1:52.83 (SEC,<br \/>\nPool Record)<br \/>\n2.\tKirsty Coventry\t\tAuburn\t\t1:53.87<br \/>\n3.\tJamie Reid\t\t\tFlorida\t\t\t1:55.01<br \/>\n4.\tMaureen Farrell\t\tFlorida\t\t\t1:55.24<br \/>\n5.\tErin Volcan\t\t\tAuburn\t\t1:57.22<br \/>\n6.\tLauren Gettel\t\t\tGeorgia\t\t1:57.71<br \/>\n6.\tJacque Fessel\t\t\tTennessee\t\t1:57.71<br \/>\n8.\tJeri Moss\t\t\tAuburn\t\t2:00.78<\/p>\n<p>Event 34- Men&#39;s 100-Yard Freestyle<br \/>\n1.\tCarlos Jayme\t\t\tFlorida\t\t\t42.89<br \/>\n(SEC Record)<br \/>\n2.\tRyan Wochomurka\t\tAuburn\t\t42.98<br \/>\n3.\tFred Bousquet\t\t\tAuburn\t\t43.02<br \/>\n4.\tMatt Kidd\t\t\tAuburn\t\t43.60<br \/>\n5.\tRenato Gueraldi\t\tTennessee\t\t43.88<br \/>\n6.\tDerek Gibb\t\t\tAuburn\t\t44.04<br \/>\n7.\tMatt Brado\t\t\tGeorgia\t\t44.12<br \/>\n8.\tApostolis Tsagarakis\t\tAlabama\t\t44.17<\/p>\n<p>Event 35- Women&#39;s 100-Yard Freestyle<br \/>\n1.\tMaritza Correia\t\tGeorgia\t\t47.49 (SEC, Pool<br \/>\nRecord)<br \/>\n2.\tEileen Coparropa\t\tAuburn\t\t48.69<br \/>\n3.\tBecky Short\t\t\tAuburn\t\t49.45<br \/>\n4.\tJenn VanAssen\t\tSouth Carolina\t49.51<br \/>\n5.\tHeather Kemp\t\t\tAuburn\t\t50.27<br \/>\n6.\tChantal Gibney\t\tFlorida\t\t\t50.31<br \/>\n7.\tLeslie Johns\t\t\tArkansas\t\t50.56<br \/>\n8.\tJenni Anderson\t\tAuburn\t\t51.21\t<\/p>\n<p>Event 36- Men&#39;s 200-Yard Breaststroke<br \/>\n1.\tKyle Salyards\t\t\tGeorgia\t\t1:55.67<br \/>\n2.\tVladislav Polyakov\t\tAlabama\t\t1:56.57<br \/>\n3.\tJustin Caron\t\t\tAuburn\t\t1:56.92<br \/>\n4.\tMark Gangloff\t\tAuburn\t\t1:58.32<br \/>\n5.\tPat Calhoun\t\t\tAuburn\t\t1:58.50<br \/>\n6.\tMichael Russo\t\t\tTennessee\t\t1:58.70<br \/>\n7.\tEric Shanteau\t\t\tAuburn\t\t1:58.79<br \/>\n8.\tPhilip Norris\t\t\tFlorida\t\t\t1:59.81<\/p>\n<p>Event 37- Women&#39;s 200-Yard Breaststroke<br \/>\n1.\tAnne Poleska\t\t\tAlabama\t\t2:09.03 (Pool<br \/>\nRecord)<br \/>\n2.\tVipa Bernhardt\t\tFlorida\t\t\t2:09.17<br \/>\n3.\tSarah Poewe\t\t\tGeorgia\t\t2:12.13<br \/>\n4.\tLaura Swander\t\tAuburn\t\t2:13.60<br \/>\n5.\tDanielle Duncan\t\tFlorida\t\t\t2:14.80<br \/>\n6.\tLauren Duerk\t\t\tAuburn\t\t2:16.27<br \/>\n7.\tCissy Schepens\t\tLSU\t\t\t2:16.90<br \/>\n8.\tMandy Huff\t\t\tFlorida\t\t\t2:18.06<\/p>\n<p>Event 38- Men&#39;s 200-Yard Butterfly<br \/>\n1.\tStefan Gherghel\t\tAlabama\t\t1:43.09 (Pool Record)<br \/>\n2.\tJeremy Knowles\t\tAuburn\t\t1:44.16<br \/>\n3.\tAndy Haidinyak\t\tAuburn\t\t1:44.49<br \/>\n4.\tAndrew Mahaney\t\tGeorgia\t\t1:45.72<br \/>\n4.\tDaniel Cruz\t\t\tKentucky\t\t1:45.72<br \/>\n6.\tRandy Lam\t\t\tGeorgia\t\t1:45.81<br \/>\n7.\tJamie Graves\t\t\tTennessee\t\t1:46.17<br \/>\n8.\tJoey Faltraco\t\t\tKentucky\t\t1:46.77<\/p>\n<p>Event 39- Women&#39;s 200-Yard Butterfly<br \/>\n1.\tMary DeScenza\t\tGeorgia\t\t1:54.80 (SEC Record)<br \/>\n2.\tMargaret Hoelzer\t\tAuburn\t\t1:57.27<br \/>\n3.\tRebecca Harper\t\tFlorida\t\t\t1:57.57<br \/>\n4.\tVictoria Genova\t\tAlabama\t\t1:58.91<br \/>\n5.\tAlessandra Lawless\t\tAuburn\t\t1:59.12<br \/>\n6.\tKatie Yevak\t\t\tGeorgia\t\t1:59.34<br \/>\n7.\tNoelle Bassi\t\t\tTennessee\t\t1:59.49<br \/>\n8.\tCasey Seland\t\t\tFlorida\t\t\t2:00.83<\/p>\n<p>Event 40- Men&#39;s Platform Diving<br \/>\n1.\tCaesar Garcia\t\t\tAuburn\t\t672.50<br \/>\n2.\tClayton Moss\t\t\tKentucky\t\t564.45<br \/>\n3.\tZach Wilcox\t\t\tFlorida\t\t\t496.85<br \/>\n4.\tTodd Avery\t\t\tGeorgia\t\t482.95<br \/>\n5.\tKyle VanArsdall\t\tLSU\t\t\t448.65<br \/>\n6.\tStewart Smith\t\t\tAlabama\t\t428.30<br \/>\n7.\tJake Dorsey\t\t\tTennessee\t\t404.45<br \/>\n8.\tJohn Venditti\t\t\tTennessee\t\t387.80<\/p>\n<p>Event 41- Men&#39;s 400-Yard Freestyle Relay<br \/>\n1.\tAuburn\t\t2:51.96  (SEC Record)<br \/>\n\tFred Bousquet, Derek Gibb, Matt Kidd, Ryan Wochomurka<br \/>\n2.\tFlorida\t\t\t2:55.29<br \/>\n\tScott Schultz, Carlos Jayme, Gabriel Mangabeira, Adam Sioui<br \/>\n3.\tAlabama\t\t2:55.35<br \/>\n\tSpiros Bitsakis, Apostolis Tsagarakis, Darren Erasmus, Stefan Gherghel<br \/>\n4.\tKentucky\t\t2:56.93<br \/>\n\tDaniel Farnham, Fernando Barros, Daniel Cruz, Steven Manley<br \/>\n5.\tLSU\t\t\t2:59.93<br \/>\n\tFrancisco Paez, Chris Stanczyk, Mike Jotautas, Mathew Rucker<br \/>\n6.\tSouth 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