2021 Women’s SEC Championships Day 1: Relay Split Analysis | SwimSwam

By Karl Ortegon on SwimSwam

SEC – WOMEN SWIMMING & DIVING + MEN’S DIVING

• Wednesday, February 17 – Saturday, February 20, 2021
• W Swimming: Gabrielsen Natatorium – Athens, GA (Eastern Time Zone)
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The headline of the first finals session at the 2021 Women’s SEC Championships came in the opening 200 medley relay, where Alabama junior Rhyan White dismantled her old best (23.81) for a huge 23.35 lead-off. That swim moves her to the #2 performer slot in history.

Here’s a breakdown of the fastest splits today from the 200 medley relay and 800 free relay, with flat-start 200 frees demarcated for 800 relay lead-offs. Note that Auburn and Georgia’s 200 medley relays were called for early takeoffs and disqualified.

50 BACKSTROKE

Alabama	Rhyan White	23.35
Kentucky	Caitlin Brooks	23.92
Georgia	Gabi Fa’Amausili	23.96 (DQ)
Missouri	Meredith Rees	24.13
Arkansas	Andrea Sansores	24.64
Texas A&M	Kara Eisenmann	24.8
Auburn	Jewels Harris	24.86 (DQ)
LSU	Katarina Milutinovich	24.96
Tennessee	Olivia Harper	25.04
Florida	Lain Shahboz	25.23
South Carolina	Bella Pantano	25.67
Vanderbilt	Abby Burke	25.79

50 BREASTSTROKE

Tennessee	Mona McSharry	26.64
Florida	Cecilia Porter	26.90
Georgia	Danielle Dellatorre	27.04 (DQ)
South Carolina	Taylor Steele	27.19
Auburn	Carly Cummings	27.23 (DQ)
Missouri	Molly Winer	27.25
Kentucky	Bailey Bonnett	27.26
Texas A&M	Alaya Smith	27.28
Alabama	Kaila Wong	27.35
LSU	Emilie Boll	27.38
Arkansas	Vanessa Herrmann	27.59
Vanderbilt	Lizzy Colwell	28.34

50 BUTTERFLY

Missouri	Sarah Thompson	22.42
Alabama	Morgan Scott	22.45
Georgia	Courtney Harnish	22.99 (DQ)
Kentucky	Izzy Gati	23.11
South Carolina	Janie Smith	23.24
Tennessee	Trude Rothrock	23.28
Auburn	Abigail Gibbons	23.37 (DQ)
Arkansas	Kobie Melton	23.55
Florida	Kenady Beil	23.77
Texas A&M	Olivia Theall	23.78
Vanderbilt	Tonner Debeer	23.87
LSU	Hannah Bellina	24.31

50 FREESTYLE

Tennessee	Bailey Grinter	21.45
Georgia	Maxine Parker	21.50 (DQ)
Alabama	Cora Dupre	21.53
Kentucky	Riley Gaines	21.58
Texas A&M	Chloe Stepanek	21.63
Missouri	Megan Keil	21.81
Florida	Katelyn Mack	21.93
Auburn	Emma Steckiel	22.09 (DQ)
Arkansas	Emily Barclay	22.13
LSU	Olivia Taylor	22.54
Vanderbilt	Eleanor Beers	22.67
South Carolina	Emma Walker	22.92

200 FREESTYLE

Kentucky	Riley Gaines	1:42.44
Tennessee	Tjasa Pintar	1:42.91
Georgia	Courtney Harnish	1:42.96 *lead-off*
Texas A&M	Chloe Stepanek	1:43.36 *lead-off*
Florida	Talia Bates	1:43.38 *lead-off*
Georgia	Zoie Hartman	1:43.54
Alabama	Morgan Scott	1:43.69 *lead-off*
Florida	Katie Mack	1:44.85
Alabama	Kalia Antoniou	1:45.02
Kentucky	Kaitlynn Wheeler	1:45.15
Florida	Kathleen Golding	1:45.20
Kentucky	Izzy Gati	1:45.22 *lead-off*
Arkansas	Peyton Palsha	1:45.24 *lead-off*
Florida	Nikki Miller	1:45.48
Kentucky	Sophie Sorenson	1:45.78
Texas A&M	Caroline Theil	1:45.79
Alabama	Gracie Felner	1:45.82
LSU	Katarina Milutinovich	1:45.92 *lead-off*
Texas A&M	Camryn Toney	1:45.92
LSU	Summer Stanfield	1:46.06
Georgia	Callie Dickinson	1:46.06
Tennessee	Trude Rothrock	1:46.17
Tennessee	Abby Samansky	1:46.52 *lead-off*
Auburn	Emily Hetzer	1:46.61 *lead-off*
Missouri	Amy Feddersen	1:46.66
Auburn	Hannah Ownbey	1:46.72
Tennessee	Claire Nguyen	1:46.81
Alabama	Kensey McMahon	1:46.83
Texas A&M	Jing Quah	1:46.86
Georgia	Jillian Barczyk	1:46.86
Auburn	Kensley Merritt	1:46.90
Missouri	Samantha Porter	1:47.02
Auburn	Claudia Thamm	1:47.28
Arkansas	Adela Vavrinova	1:47.29
South Carolina	Mari Kraus	1:47.75
Missouri	Hayley Hill	1:47.81
LSU	Hannah Bellina	1:48.00
South Carolina	Riley Parker	1:48.09
Missouri	Jane Smith	1:48.10 *lead-off*
South Carolina	Emma Alexander	1:48.30 *lead-off*
LSU	Sarah Thompson	1:49.39
Arkansas	Brittney Pike	1:49.43
South Carolina	Kaitlyn Porter	1:50.13
Vanderbilt	Eleanor Beers	1:50.87 *lead-off*
Arkansas	Molly Moore	1:51.15
Vanderbilt	Alina Stout	1:51.98
Vanderbilt	Krislyn Porter	1:52.05
Vanderbilt	Taylor Ward	1:52.10

White, along with the rest of the Alabama girls, looked exceptional tonight. Cora Dupre had one of the best splits of the field and was a bit faster than her 21.85 200 free relay split when she was at Indiana last season at Big Tens. Morgan Scott set a new personal best and Alabama record in her 200 free lead-off, and dropped a huge 22.45 fly leg, while the Crimson Tide soared to new school records in both relays.

Kentucky led the way with 118 points to Alabama’s 116 when scoring the two relays, and the Wildcats also snapped a school record in the 200 medley relay. Riley Gaines had two very impressive splits tonight, both 21.53 on the end of UK’s 200 medley relay and a heroic 1:42.44 field-best split to help them to the 800 relay win.

Tennessee, which won both of these relays last year and are looking to defend their team title, isn’t off to as hot a start as last year. The Lady Vols were just fourth today in the 200 medley, while they were fifth in the 800 free relay. Tjasa Pintar‘s 800 free relay anchor and Mona McSharry‘s field-leading 26.64 breast leg on the medley were impressive, though, along with Bailey Grinter‘s field-leading 21.45 medley anchor.

Mizzou’s Sarah Thompson, meanwhile, threw down the top 50 fly split in the nation this season with a 22.42.

Georgia recovered well with one of just three sub-7:00 relays in the 800 free relay, and though their medley got DQ’d, their splits were quite strong. Courtney Harnish had the best lead-off in the field, going 1:42.96 to hit a lifetime best for the Bulldogs.

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