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LSU vs Florida
January 9, 2026 Gainesville, Florida — Stephen O’Connell Center Natatorium SCY (25 Yards) Full Meet Results Team Scores Women: #10 Florida 174 — #15 LSU 87 Men: #5 Florida 156 — #12 LSU 105Florida swept LSU on Friday in both teams’ first dual meets since the midseason invitationals. Both Florida teams will move to 4-1 for the season.
Women’s Meet Recap
The Gators started with a win in the 200 medley relay. Catie Choate led off in 24.80 for backstroke. Anita Bottazzo swam 26.83 on the breaststroke. Beatriz Bezerra split 24.09 on the fly, and Addison Reese anchored in 23.07 to bring the team home in 1:38.79. They came in a little more than a second ahead of LSU’s 1:41.11. The LSU women have been 1:35.06 this season while Florida has been 1:35.93
Backstroker Choate went on to win both the 100 and 200 backstroke events, swimming 52.76 in the 100 and 1:54.52 in the 200, missing her season best times of 51.53 and 1:51.52.
Bottazzo, who swam the breaststroke leg, won the 100 breast in 59.35, coming in more than two seconds ahead of teammate Molly Mayne, who finished 2nd overall. Bottazzo currently leads the nation in the 100 breast with her 56.87 from Florida’s meet with Virginia.
Mayne went on to win the 200 breaststroke in 2:14.21, which was a little more than five seconds off her season best of 2:08.65.
Reese won the 200 butterfly in 1:59.75, coming in almost two seconds ahead of teammate Lainy Kruger‘s 2:01.72. Both have been faster this season with Reese’s season best coming in at 1:56.28 and Kruger sitting at 1:55.71.
Florida also had a few two event winners that were not on the 200 medley relay. Sophomore Julie Brousseau won both distance freestyle events, swimming 9:47.47 in the 1000 and 4:49.42 in the 500 to pick up 18 points for the Gators.
Junior Lainy Kruger won the 200 free and 100 fly for Florida. In the 200 free, she swam 1:48.60 to come in almost exactly a second ahead of Megan Barnes from LSU, who swam 1:49.59 for 2nd. In the 100 fly, she swam 54.71 to outtouch Bezerra’s 54.76 for 2nd place.
The final event winner for the Gators was freshman Grace Rabb, who swam 2:01.99 to take the top spot in the 200 IM ahead of Brousseau’s 2:02.44. This was Brousseau’s 1st time swimming the event this season, while Rabb was off her season best of 1:55.29.
LSU won three events over the course of the meet with senior sprinter Michaela De Villiers being partially or fully responsible for all three.
De Villiers started with the top time in the 50 freestyle of 22.84, coming in six tenths ahead of Bezerra’s 23.44 for Florida in 2nd.
She went on to win the 100 free in 50.50, a little more than half-a-second ahead of Florida’s Reese, who finished 2nd in 51.16.
LSU also won the final event of the meet, the women’s 200 freestyle relay. There are no splits for the middle 100, but the team of Avery Littlefield (23.51), De Villiers, Anastasia Bako, and Sabrina Lyn (23.01) swam 1:32.24 to come in more than a second ahead of Florida’s 1:33.47.
Men’s Recap
Florida also won most of the events on the men’s side, though they dropped both relays to LSU.
Giovanni Linscheer picked up the Gators’ first event win with his 9:07.30 in the 1000 free coming in a little more than three seconds ahead of LSU’s Jacob Pishko, who swam 9:10.61 for 2nd. Florida’s Ahmed Jaouadi was disqualified after swimming 9:03.72.
Linscheer also won the 500 freestyle, swimming 4:24.76 to just outtouch teammate Eric Brown who came back hard to swim 4:24.97 after outsplitting Linscheer 24.87 to 25.37 on the final 50.
Brown won two events during the meet as well, taking the top spot in the 200 free with his 1:38.10 beating teammate Paul Dardis‘ 1:38.68 by almost seven tenths. In the 200 IM, he swam 1:48.57 to come in a tenth ahead of teammate Aiden Norman‘s 1:48.70. This was only Brown’s 2nd time swimming the 200 IM, and he set a new best time, dropping from the 1:51.94 he swam in October of 2022.
Florida’s Aleksas Savickas won the 100 and 200 breaststroke events, swimming 54.52 in the 100 to come in one-hundredth ahead of teammate Koen de Groot‘s 54.53. LSU’s Volodymyr Lisovets was just two hundredths behind de Groot with his 54.55 for 3rd.
He swam 1:59.19 in the 200 breast to be the only swimmer under 2:00 in the event, coming in more than two seconds ahead of Florida freshman Nil Cadevall‘s 2:01.63.
Aiden Norman won the men’s 200 backstroke for the Gators, swimming 1:44.15 for the top time by more than four seconds over Florida teammate Caleb Maldari.
Josh Liendo was Florida’s final individual event winner, taking the men’s 100 fly, touching in 46.38 to win by more than two seconds over LSU’s Caleb Ellis, who swam 48.55 for 2nd.
LSU won both relays, starting with the men’s 200 medley where their team of Stepan Goncharov (21.62), Volodymyr Lisovets (23.94), Diggory Dillingham (21.56), and Jere Hribar (18.51) swam 1:25.63, coming in four tenths ahead of Florida’s 2nd place 1:26.08.
They also won the 200 freestyle relay with Dillingham (20.64), Hribar (19.11), Goncharov (19.90), and Andrew Garon (19.94) swimming 1:19.59 to touch more than a second ahead of Florida.
The Tigers also had a few individual event wins, led by Hribar winning the 50 and 100 freestyles. In the 50 free, he swam 19.41 to come in a little more than a tenth ahead of Josh Liendo‘s 19.58 for Florida, and in the 100, he swam 42.56 to touch nearly two seconds ahead of Florida’s Devin Dilger, who finished 2nd in 44.28.
Stepan Goncharov swam 46.92 to win the 100 backstroke by almost a second over Aiden Norman‘s 47.91 for Florida.
Their final individual event winner for LSU was Stuart Higdon in the men’s 200 butterfly, which he won in 1:47.99, beating teammate Caleb Ellis‘s 1:48.23 by three tenths.
Up Next
Florida will race Auburn on January 16th in Auburn, Alabama, and LSU will host SMU on January 24th.
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