2025 SEC Championship: Day 4 Prelim Scratches – Fuller & Sims Empty their Morning of Swims
02/20/2025 08:46 AM
2025 SEC Championships
- Dates: Tuesday, February 18–Saturday, February 22
- Prelims: 9:30 am EST/ Finals 5:30 pm EST (Tuesday-5:00 EST)
- Location: Gabrielsen Natatorium — Athens, GA
- Defending Champions: Florida women (2x); Florida men (12x)
- Live Results
- Live Video: SEC Network+
- Championship Central
- Fan Guide (Men)
- Fan Guide (Women)
- Psych Sheets
- Teams: Alabama, Arkansas (women), Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas*, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt (women)
- Live Recaps
Day 4 Prelims Heat Sheet
The top seed in the 400 IM, Florida’s Bella Sims, has not only scratched out of the event but out of the whole morning. Panic alarms should not be going off for fans of the Gators as Sims, who is limited to swim at max three individual races appeared on the psych sheet ten times. In addition to her top billing in the 400 IM, Sims was the 25th seed in the 100 fly and the 3rd seed in the 200 free.
While Sims had three individual scratches, Tennessee dropped three top 24 swimmers from the 100 fly as #6 seed Josephine Fuller has pulled out of the event, as have Brooklyn Douthwright (#15) and Emily Brown (#24).
If swimmers are looking to make a move today and get into a final, the women’s 200 free would be a great spot as seven of the top 24 seeded swimmers have opted out of the event, including the aforementioned Sims and Fuller, both of whom were top 8 seeds. Fuller, who swam the 200 IM on day 3, still has at least one event to scratch as she appears on the psych sheet in the 100/200 back and 100 free.
On the men’s side, Jordan Crooks, after an electric night last night, has pulled out of the 100 fly, where he was the 2nd seed. However, fans of the Cayman Islands sprinter can still watch him swim as he looks to defend his top seed in the 200 free. The 100 fly also saw Hubert Kos (#3 seed) withdraw, setting up a showdown tonight between Luca Urlando and Josh Liendo. Urlando, in order to best prepare for said race, dropped the 200 free, where he was the 7th seed.
All Top-24 Scratches
- W 400 IM
- #1 Bella Sims (FLOR) – 4:00.44
- M 400 IM
- #19 Tommy Hagar (BAMA) – 3:46.69
- W 100 Fly
- #5 Campbell Stoll (TEX) – 51.44
- #6 Josephine Fuller (TENN) – 51.51
- #15 Brooklyn Douthwright (TENN) – 52.37
- # 24 Emily Brown (TENN) – 52.79
- M 100 Fly
- #2 Jordan Crooks (TENN) – 43.77
- #3 Hubert Kos (TEX) – 44.05
- #24 Linus Kahl (SCAR) – 46.69
- W 200 Free
- #3 Bella Sims (FLOR) – 1:43.20
- #6 Josephine Fuller (TENN) – 1:43.92
- #10 Ava Longi (TEX) – 1:44.49
- #14 Ella Jansen (TENN) – 1:44.90
- #16 Chase Campbell (TEX) – 1:44.97
- #19 Micayla Cronk (FLOR) – 1:45.06
- #24 Julie Brousseau (FLOR) -1:45.52
- M 200 Free
- #7 Luca Urlando (UGA) – 1:32.05
- #10 Jake Magahey (UGA) – 1:33.03
- #15 Danny Husband (AUB) – 1:33.67
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