{"id":206433,"date":"2026-03-26T04:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206433\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T04:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:20:06","slug":"jaouadi-sets-record-as-florida-indiana-co-lead-ncaa-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206433\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaouadi sets record as Florida, Indiana co-lead NCAA swim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 25, 2026, 11:54 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>ATLANTA &#8212; Florida freshman Ahmed Jaouadi broke the NCAA record in the 1,650-yard freestyle, and the Gators shared the Day 1 lead with Indiana at the Division I swimming and diving championships on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Jaouadi denied Indiana senior Zal\u00e1n S\u00e1rk\u00e1ny a three-peat with a time of 14:10.03 to break former Gator Bobby Finke&#8217;s longstanding NCAA record. S\u00e1rk\u00e1ny recorded the fastest 1,000 freestyle in collegiate swimming history, splitting an 8:33.10 during a runner-up performance.<\/p>\n<p>Florida and Indiana are tied atop the team standing with 86 points, followed by Texas with 72.<\/p>\n<p>Jonny Kulow brought home the title for Arizona State in the 200-medley relay with a time of 1:20.07. Florida, after setting an NCAA record at the SEC championships, was runner-up, and the Longhorns took third.<\/p>\n<p>Texas won the 800 freestyle relay after Rafael Fente-Damers, Camden Taylor, Rex Maurer and Baylor Nelson touched first in 6:05.82.<\/p>\n<p>The four-day event at the McAuley Aquatic Center continues Thursday with the 100 butterfly, 400 individual medley, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, 1-meter diving and the 200 freestyle relay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 25, 2026, 11:54 PM ET ATLANTA &#8212; Florida freshman Ahmed Jaouadi broke the NCAA record in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-206433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}