BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas \u2013 The University of Georgia swimming and diving teams opened the 2026-27 Southeastern Conference season in resounding fashion, sweeping No. 24\/25 Texas A&M Saturday at the Texas A&M Rec Center Natatorium.
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\nThe 12th-ranked Georgia women topped the 25th-ranked Aggies, 197-94, while the No. 15 men prevailed, 222-78. Saturday’s meet marked the first meeting between the programs since 2020 and first in College Station since 2016.
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\n\tGeorgia combined for 24 individual wins and swept all four relay races, with 16 different Bulldogs earning an individual win.
\n\tSophomore Kennedi Dobson<\/a> made her season debut with wins in all three individual races, highlighted by an NCAA cut of 4:38.12 in the 500y freestyle. She touched first in the 1,000y freestyle with a 9:30.50 and won the 200y butterfly with a 1:57.71. Dobson also anchored the victorious 400y freestyle relay (3:16.69), with a 48.75 split.
\n\tSenior Tomas Koski<\/a> also picked up a trio of wins, posting an NCAA cut in the 500y freestyle with a time of 4:16.60. Koski also won in the 100y freestyle (43.09) and 200y freestyle (1:33.75). Koski led off the winning 400y freestyle relay (2:54.11) with a time of 43.29.
\n\tJunior Jacob Johnson<\/a> continued to make his mark in the program record books with a butterfly sweep. In the 100y butterfly, his NCAA cut of 45.54 moved him up to fifth in program history, while his NCAA cut of 1:41.23 in the 200 fly placed him 10th overall.
\n\tThe Georgia men’s diving team opened strong with all three divers earning Zone cuts on both springboards. Senior Matthew Bray<\/a> won on 1-meter with a score of 334.05 and took third on 3-meter at 341.85. Graduate Renato Calderaro<\/a> finished first on 3-meter with a 372.30 and fifth on 1-meter at 307.73. Junior Omar Elsayed<\/a> placed third on 1-meter (321.38) and fourth on 3-meter (333.90) in his Bulldog debut. On the women’s side, junior Rin Drudge<\/a> took second on 3-meter with a Zone cut of 293.18 in her Georgia debut, while fellow junior Ruth Anne McCranie<\/a> also debuted with a third-place finish on 1-meter.
\n\tFreshman Virginia Hinds<\/a> swept the women’s backstroke races, including a season-best 53.03 in the 100. Sophomore Hayden Meyers<\/a> replicated the feat on the men’s side with season-best times in both races (47.08 in 100, 1:41.48 in 200).
\n\tSophomore Hayden Hollingsworth<\/a> earned the first two individual wins of her Georgia career, placing first in the 100y butterfly (53.80) and 50y freestyle (29.97). Freshmen Maddie Thornton<\/a> (200y IM \u2013 2:01.84) and Jude Banks<\/a> (100y breaststroke \u2013 54.00) also earned the first wins of their collegiate careers.
\n\tJunior Marie Landreneau<\/a> finished first in the 200y freestyle with a season-best NCAA cut of 1:44.69, while senior Helena Jones<\/a> touched first in the 100y freestyle with a season-best NCAA time of 48.33. Jones anchored the winning 200y medley relay with a final time of 1:38.24. Sophomore Elizabeth Nawrocki<\/a>, also a member of the 200 medley relay, earned an NCAA cut in the 200y breaststroke with a winning 2:11.01.
\n\tSophomore Sean Green<\/a> placed first in the 1,000y freestyle with a time of 8:54.64, with other victories coming from Tane Bidois<\/a> in the 50y freestyle (20.00) and Finn Hammer<\/a> in the 200y IM (1:45.91).
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