Georgia swimmers earn 3 medals on the third day of SEC championships
Kira Doppel
Feb 20, 2025
Three Georgia swimmers earned their place on the podium on the third day of the SEC championships on Wednesday.
Senior Rachel Stege earned a bronze medal in the 500 yard freestyle with an A-cut time of 4:34.28. This is Stege’s third consecutive time on the podium at the SEC championships, adding to her gold and silver medals from 2023 and 2024 respectively.
In the women's 500 yard freestyle, seniors Duné Coetzee and Abby McCulloh just missed the podium and finished fourth and fifth respectively.
Sophomore Tomas Koski and graduate Jake Magahey also earned podium spots in the 500 yard freestyle. During the race, the pair turned together and at one point were only six hundredths of a second apart. Ultimately, Texas’ Rex Maurer took gold and Koski and Magahey earned silver and bronze respectively.
Koski set a personal-best A-cut of 4:08.25 which earned his first individual SEC medal. Magahey stood on the podium for the fifth-consecutive year with an A-cut time of 4:08.61.
In both the men’s and women’s 200 yard IM, redshirt senior Luca Urlando and junior Ieva Maluka finished sixth with times of 1:41.46 and 1:55.02 respectively.
The Georgia men’s and women’s teams both sit in fourth place with scores of 309 and 322.5 respectively.
The fourth day of the SEC swim and dive championships on Thursday will feature the 400y individual medley, 100y butterfly, 200y freestyle, and men’s 1-meter diving. Event finals will be at 5:30 p.m at Bauerle Pool at the Gabrielsen Natatorium in Athens.
