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The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/kennedi-dobson-building-momentum-with-pan-pacs-qualification-stellar-college-debut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fab freshman&#8217;s first<\/a> 1,650 in college slots her fifth in program history in the 1,650. The top time in the nation entering this week\u2019s invites belonged to Nebraska\u2019s <strong>Gena Jorgenson<\/strong> at 16:10.04.<\/p>\n<p>Dobson also anchored the Bulldogs\u2019 800 free relay to win on the first night of the four-day invitational at Bauerle Pool at Gabrielsen Natatorium. The quartet of <strong>Ieva Maluka, Shea Furse, Marie Landreneau<\/strong> and Dobson went 6:53.55, well under the NCAA auto standard. Dobson brought it home in a furious 1:41.91.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rolltide.com\/documents\/2025\/11\/19\/UGA_Fall_Invite_Tuesday_Results.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meet Results<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/meet\/sec-swimming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SEC Swimming News<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/meet\/acc-swimming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACC Swimming News\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Georgia\u2019s men won the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:22.18 that is an NCAA qualifier. <strong>Luca Urlando<\/strong> split 20.97 in backstroke, joining <strong>Elliot Woodburn, Ruard van Renen<\/strong> and <strong>Tane Bidois.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The other individual event of the session went to Olympian <strong>Ahmed Jaouadi<\/strong> of Tunisia. Jaouadi went 14:39.10, a time that is well under the A standard for NCAAs. It places him sixth in Gators program history. He was more than 11 seconds clear of the field.<\/p>\n<p>Three Florida female milers and three male milers made NCAAs. <strong>Michaela Mattes<\/strong> was second in 15:56.85 on the women\u2019s side with <strong>Julie Brousseau<\/strong> fourth. <strong>Eric Brown<\/strong> finished third and <strong>Gio Linscheer<\/strong> fourth for the men.<\/p>\n<p>After one session, Florida leads the team standings in both competitions, in a tie with Georgia on the women\u2019s side:<\/p>\n<h4>Georgia Invitational Women\u2019s Standings<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Florida 167<\/li>\n<li>Georgia 167<\/li>\n<li>LSU 119<\/li>\n<li>Florida State 107<\/li>\n<li>Alabama 75<\/li>\n<li>Georgia Tech 75<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Georgia Invitational Men\u2019s Standings<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Florida 168<\/li>\n<li>LSU 144<\/li>\n<li>Georgia 131<\/li>\n<li>Florida State 127<\/li>\n<li>Alabama 65<\/li>\n<li>Georgia Tech 64<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Florida State set a program record in the men\u2019s 800 free relay to win. <strong>Michel Arkhangelskiy<\/strong> led off that quartet in a school record time of 1:32.71. He was joined by <strong>Andrew Rich, Gustav Olsson<\/strong> and <strong>Logan Robinson<\/strong> (1:31.12) to go 6:10.25, an NCAA qualification time. Florida State was also second in the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:22.23 via <strong>Max Wilson, Tommaso Baravelli,<\/strong> Arkhangelskiy and <strong>Sam Bork.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s 200 medley relay was won by Alabama, with the team of <strong>Emily Jones, Jada Scott, Gaby Van Brunt<\/strong> and <strong>Cadence Vincent<\/strong> going 1:34.37. LSU was second in a school-record 1:35.06 with the squad of <strong>Zoe Carlos-Broc, Martina Bukvic, Avery Littlefield<\/strong> and <strong>Michaela De Villiers.<\/strong> Florida hit an NCAA qualification time, while Florida State hit the provisional standard.<\/p>\n<p>LSU also set a school record in the men\u2019s 200 medley relay, with <strong>Stepan Goncharov, Volodymyr Lisovets, Caleb Ellis<\/strong> and <strong>Jere Hribar<\/strong> (18.11) going 1:22.42. That\u2019s an A cut for NCAAs.<\/p>\n<p>Florida\u2019s 200 medley, which did not include <strong>Josh Liendo,<\/strong> obtained a provisional cut in fourth place in 1:23.64. <strong>Jonny Marshall, Aleksas Savickas, Scotty Buffy<\/strong> and <strong>Devin Dilger<\/strong> were that quartet. With Liendo leading off in 1:33.40, the Gators finished second in the 800 free relay in 6:12.51. That is an A cut, as is Georgia\u2019s third-place 6:12.73, led off by <strong>Tomas Koski<\/strong> making a run at his school record with a leadoff leg of 1:31.42 that fell seven tenths shy.<\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s 800 free relay featured A cuts for Georgia, Florida (7:02.02 with Brousseau and Mattes) and LSU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kennedi Dobson Rips Nation\u2019s Best Mile to Start Georgia Invitational Kennedi Dobson started the Georgia Invitational with a time of 15:47.61 in the 1,650 free on Tuesday, setting the top<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8367,"featured_media":614028,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[49364,134034,544,133261,56173,32,42726,130060,248,9107,130853,134178,4248,74972,135576],"class_list":["post-626649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college","tag-acc-swimming","tag-ahmed-jaouadi","tag-alabama","tag-cadence-vincent","tag-emily-jones","tag-florida","tag-florida-state","tag-gaby-van-brunt","tag-georgia","tag-georgia-invitational","tag-jada-scott","tag-kennedi-dobson","tag-lsu","tag-michaela-mattes","tag-michel-arkhangelskiy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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