No. 15/12 Georgia Hosts SEC Rivals for CSL Match 6 - University of Georgia Athletics

Friday, October 23

Athens, Ga.

10 a.m.

University of Georgia

Alabama (Diving)

Jude Banks competes in practice for the Georgia men's swimming and diving team.

Photo by: Conor Dillon/UGAAA

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No. 15/12 Georgia vs. No. 5/4 Tennessee, #18/15 Alabama, #17/19 Auburn
(M/W rankings reflecting CSCAA preseason poll)
Date: Friday, Oct. 23
Site: Bauerle Pool at Gabrielsen Natatorium – Athens, Ga.
Time: 5:30 p.m. EDT
Stream: ESPN+
Results: MeetMobile

Diving: Georgia vs. Alabama
Date: Friday, Oct. 23
Site: Bauerle Pool at Gabrielsen Natatorium – Athens, Ga.
Time: 10 a.m. EDT
Stream: SEC Network+
Results: DiveMeets.com

Meet Order
500y Freestyle
200y Breaststroke
200y Backstroke
200y Freestyle Relay
200y Butterfly
100y IM
100y Backstroke
100y Freestyle
Skins
200y IM
100y Breaststroke
50y Freestyle
100y Butterfly
200y Freestyle
Super Skins (200y Medley Relay)

Format

The College Swimming League (CSL) season consists of six regular season, and two post season matches, with each of the 12 participating institutions (Georgia, Alabama, Auburn, California, Indiana, Louisville, Michigan, NC State, Ohio State, Stanford, Tennessee, Virginia) competing in two regular season matches.
In each match, all four teams will roster 28 swimmer (14 male, 14 female), with two athletes representing each program in each individual event. An athlete can enter in at most three individual events and two relay events.
Team scores will be calculated by adding both men's and women's points. Individual events feature a 9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 scoring structure, while relays will feature an 18-14-12-10-8-6-4-2 system.
CSL matches count toward NCAA Championships time qualifications and the meets will also count toward NCAA dual meet requirements.
At the conclusion of the match, the first place team will earn four point, second place three points, third place two points, and fourth place one point in the CSL standings. After the six regular season matches, the top three teams in the standings will automatically advance to the championship match on Friday, Nov. 6, while the teams ranked fourth through seventh will compete in a wild card match on Nov. 5 with the winner advancing to the final.
Skins races are elimination events performed over 50 yards per round. The winner of each gender's 200y freestyle relay will select the stroke that will be used in each round. Super skins races are elimination events in which one team will be eliminated per round in the 200y medley relay. Points will accumulate over the course of both skins and super skins events.
Winning swimmers can also "Jackpot" additional points off of lower-finishing swimmers. Once a winning time is established by the first place finisher, all other finishing swimmers must finish in the timing threshold set for each event for their points will be allocated to the first place finisher.
Complete rules for the CSL are available here.

Fast Facts

The CSL regular season concludes Friday with an all-SEC match featuring host Georgia, Alabama, Auburn, and Tennessee. Tennessee currently stands in eighth place with three points, while the other three schools occupy the final three spots in the standings. Each program is still in the hunt to finish in the top seven and qualify for the postseason.
Tennessee finished second to Virginia in its first match, while Alabama and Auburn each placed third. Georgia finished fourth in its match on Sept. 25. The Bulldogs' lone individual win in the CSL opener came from senior Tomas Koski in the 500-yard freestyle.
Prior to the CSL match on Friday evening, the Georgia and Alabama diving teams will compete in a meet at 10 a.m. The Bulldogs and Crimson Tide will compete in six-dive rounds on both springboards.
Georgia opened its dual season with a decisive sweep at Texas A&M, combining for 24 individual wins and all four relay victories. In the meet, 16 different Bulldogs earned an individual win.
Sophomore Kennedi Dobson earned SEC Women's Swimmer of the Week honors with four wins, highlighted by an NCAA cut of 4:38.12 in the 500y freestyle. Junior Jacob Johnson took SEC Men's Swimmer of the Week with a butterfly sweep, posting top 10 Georgia program times in each race.
Koski picked up three wins, while freshman Virginia Hinds, sophomore Hayden Meyers, and sophomore Hayden Hollingsworth each earned a pair of victories.
The Georgia men's diving team opened strong with all three divers earning Zone cuts on both springboards. Senior Matthew Bray won on 1-meter with a score of 334.05 and took third on 3-meter at 341.85. Graduate Renato Calderaro finished first on 3-meter with a 372.30 and fifth on 1-meter at 307.73. Junior Omar Elsayed 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 took second on 3-meter with a Zone cut of 293.18 in her Georgia debut, while fellow junior Ruth Anne McCranie also debuted with a third-place finish on 1-meter.

Up Next
Georgia remains home for its annual matchup against No. 3/10 Florida next Friday at 11 a.m. EDT at Bauerle Pool at Gabrielsen Natatorium. Admission is free for all spectators, and the match will stream live on SEC Network+.