Auburn swim and dive heads to Knoxville as SEC title contender
The historically dominant Auburn Tigers swim and dive team will head to Knoxville, Tennessee, this Saturday to participate in the 2026 SEC Swimming and Diving Championships.
The historically dominant Auburn Tigers swim and dive team will head to Knoxville, Tennessee, this Saturday to participate in the 2026 SEC Swimming and Diving Championships.
The Auburn Tigers hosted the Auburn Invitational over the weekend as a last-chance, tune-up meet before the 2026 SEC Championships.
Auburn Swim and Dive powered through a competitive first day at the Dual Meet Tournament in McAuley Aquatic Center in Georgia. The Tigers secured a narrow 358-351 victory over Minnesota in round one, before falling to Georgia, 400-382.
To start the 2025-26 swim and dive season with a bang, Auburn had various great swims and dives at the SMU Invite in two days of competition inside the Robson and Lindley Aquatics Center. The Men scored 304 points, securing second place, while the women scored 248 points, grabbing third.
The Auburn University Student Government Association voted on Monday, Oct. 7, 2024, to approve the commendation of the university’s athletes that competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics. 11 current or former Auburn University students competed at the games. These students represented 10 different countries and competed in six distinct sports.
Auburn swim and dive welcomed conference foe Florida to the Plains on Saturday where the two teams competed in a senior day dual meet. Joe Patching won three individual events and Ashley Neidigh, Natasha Lloyd, Aly Tetzloff and Michael Duderstadt each collected two individual wins on the day. “I thought the women were outstanding today,” Auburn head coach Brett Hawke said.
The men’s swim and dive team placed 3rd out of six teams this weekend at the Georgia Swimming Invitational in Athens, Georgia, scoring 656 points in the event.
Marcel Chierighini, a native of Brazil and Auburn swim and dive alumnus (2010-14), qualified for the men's 100m freestyle final at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics with a 48.23 semifinal time on Tuesday.
After a victory for the men’s squad and a loss for the women against Tennessee last Friday, another trio of Auburn swimmers have earned weekly awards for their performances.
For the third straight week, Auburn swim and dive freshman Julie Meynen has been named the Southeastern Conference’s female Freshman of the Week
Following victories over rival Alabama for the 10th ranked Tigers last week, a trio of Auburn swimmers have been awarded SEC weekly honors.
Three members of the Auburn University men’s swimming and diving team have been labelled 2016 preseason All-Americans, CollegeSwimming.com released on Monday.
Auburn had 84 student-athletes from all 17 sports on this year’s First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll list, the conference office announced Thursday.
Auburn's Micah Lawrence and Annie Lazor have one trial left to compete in for a Team USA spot and berth in the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Lawrence, who finished sixth in the 200-meter breaststroke in the London Olympics in 2012, qualified second and Lazor seventh in the same event’s semifinals on Thursday.
Auburn's Scott Lazeroff will dive for a spot on the USA Olympic Team on Sunday. The rising sophomore scored a 671.10 on Tuesday and stands in 11th after the platform semifinals at the 2016 USA Diving Team Trials in Indianapolis, Indiana. Lazeroff posted a 325.50 during Tuesday’s preliminaries and a 345.60 in the semifinals to be one of 12 to dive for an Olympic spot. David Boudia leads the field with a 1007.25, followed by Steele Johnson with 961.80.