2022 SEC Swimming & Diving Awards Announced
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (April 13, 2022) - The Southeastern Conference announced its annual men's and women's swimming & diving awards to cap the 2021-22 season.
Brooks Curry of LSU was named as the Male Swimmer of the Year, and Matthew Sates of Georgia was chosen the Male Freshman Swimmer of the Year. Kurtis Mathews of Texas A&M was voted the Male Diver of the Year, while Mohamed Farouk of Alabama was tabbed as the Male Freshman Diver of the Year. Anthony Nesty of Florida was voted the Men's Swimming Coach of the Year, and Jay Lerew of Texas A&M was tabbed the Men's Diving Coach of the Year.
Morgan Scott of Alabama and Ellen Walshe of Tennessee were selected as the Female Co-Swimmers of the Year, and Walshe was voted the Female Freshman Swimmer of the Year. Maha Amer of Florida, Kyndal Knight of Kentucky and Brooke Schultz of South Carolina were tabbed as the Female Divers of the Year, while Chiara Pellacani of LSU was named the Female Freshman Diver of the Year. Matt Kredich of Tennessee was chosen as the Women's Swimming Coach of the Year, and Doug Shaffer of LSU earned the Women's Diving Coach of the Year award.
For the All-SEC Teams, the First Team consists of the top finisher in each event at the SEC Championships, and the Second Team consists of the second- and third-place finishers in each event. The All-Freshman Teams consist of any redshirt or true freshman who finished either in the top eight or is the highest scoring freshman of each event at the SEC Championships, excluding relay events.
The complete list of the 2021-22 SEC Swimming & Diving All-SEC Awards is as follows:
Male Swimmer of the Year: Brooks Curry, LSU
Male Freshmen Swimmer of the Year: Matthew Sates, Georgia
Men's Swimming Coach of the Year: Anthony Nesty, Florida
Male Diver of the Year: Kurtis Mathews, Texas A&M
Male Freshman Diver of the Year: Mohamed Farouk, Alabama
Men's Diving Coach of the Year: Jay Lerew, Texas A&M
Female Co-Swimmers of the Year: Morgan Scott, Alabama and Ellen Walshe, Tennessee
Female Freshman Swimmer of the Year: Ellen Walshe, Tennessee
Women's Swimming Coach of the Year: Matt Kredich, Tennessee
Female Divers of the Year: Maha Amer, Florida; Kyndal Knight, Kentucky; and Brooke Schultz, South Carolina
Female Freshmen Diver of the Year: Chiara Pellacani, LSU
Women's Diving Coach of the Year: Doug Shaffer, LSU
Commissioner's Trophy Men Luca Urlando, Georgia
Women Ellen Walshe, Tennessee
All-SEC First Team
Men
Derek Maas, Alabama
Amro Al-Wir, Florida
Adam Chaney, Florida
Trey Freeman, Florida
Eric Friese, Florida
Dillon Hils, Florida
Oskar Lindholm, Florida
Macguire McDuff, Florida
Alberto Mestre, Florida
Alfonso Mestre, Florida
Kieran Smith, Florida
Matthew Sates, Georgia
Luca Urlando, Georgia
Juan Celaya-Hernandez, LSU
Brooks Curry, LSU
Jordan Crooks, Tennessee
Kurtis Mathews, Texas A&M
Women
Kalia Antoniou, Alabama
Cora Dupre, Alabama
Tanesha Lucoe, Alabama
Diana Petkova, Alabama
Morgan Scott, Alabama
Rhyan White, Alabama
Avery Wiseman, Alabama
Kailyn Winter, Alabama
Gillian Davey, Kentucky
Riley Gaines, Kentucky
Brooke Schultz, South Carolina
Mona McSharry, Tennessee
Julia Mrozinski, Tennessee
Tjasa Pintar, Tennessee
Trude Rothrock, Tennessee
Kristen Stege, Tennessee
Ellen Walshe, Tennessee
All-SEC Second Team
Men
Kaique Alves, Alabama
Jonathan Berneburg, Alabama
Matthew Menke, Alabama
Tyler Sesvold, Alabama
Reid Mikuta, Auburn
Aidan Stoffle, Auburn
Nathaniel Stoffle, Auburn
Logan Tirheimer, Auburn
Matthew Yish, Auburn
Tyler Watson, Florida
Andrew Abruzzo, Georgia
Ian Grum, Georgia
Zach Hills, Georgia
Jake Magahey, Georgia
Max Berg, Kentucky
Jakob Clark, Kentucky
Victor Martin Roig, Kentucky
Mason Wilby, Kentucky
Manny Vazquez Bas, South Carolina
Nolan Briggs, Tennessee
Micah Chambers, Tennessee
Jarel Dillard, Tennessee
Bryden Hattie, Tennessee
Michael Houlie, Tennessee
Bjoern Kammann, Tennessee
Kayky Mota, Tennessee
Scott Scanlon, Tennessee
Aleksey Tarasenko, Tennessee
Kaloyan Bratanov, Texas A&M
Anze Erzen, Texas A&M
Ethan Gogulski, Texas A&M
Victor Povzner, Texas A&M
Andres Puente Bustamante, Texas A&M
Women
Kensey McMahon, Alabama
Talia Bates, Florida
Micayla Cronk, Florida
Katelyn Mack, Florida
Ekaterina Nikonova, Florida
Duné Coetzee, Georgia
Callie Dickinson, Georgia
Zoie Hartman, Georgia
Dakota Luther, Georgia
Abby McCulloh, Georgia
Maxine Parker, Georgia
Bailey Bonnett, Kentucky
Caitlin Brooks, Kentucky
Izzy Gati, Kentucky
Kyndal Knight, Kentucky
Lauren Poole, Kentucky
Sophie Sorenson, Kentucky
Kaitlynn Wheeler, Kentucky
Chiara Pellacani, LSU
Helle Tuxen, LSU
Amy Feddersen, Missouri
Megan Keil, Missouri
Sierra Smith, Missouri
Sarah Thompson, Missouri
Brooklyn Douthwright, Tennessee
Josephine Fuller, Tennessee
AJ Kutsch, Tennessee
Jasmine Rumley, Tennessee
Chloe Stepanek, Texas A&M
All-Freshman Team
Men
Kaique Alves, Alabama
Charlie Hawke, Alabama
Linus Kahl, Alabama
Jacques Rathle, Auburn
Nathaniel Stoffle, Auburn
Peter Bretzmann, Florida
Mason Laur, Florida
Oskar Lindholm, Florida
Macguire McDuff, Florida
Julian Smith, Florida
Matthew Sates, Georgia
Adrian Abadia Garcia, LSU
Michael Laitarovsky, South Carolina J
ordan Crooks, Tennessee
Bjoern Kammann, Tennessee
Women
Avery Wiseman, Alabama
Avery Bargeron, Auburn
Elettra Neroni, Florida
Ekaterina Nikonova, Florida
Duné Coetzee, Georgia
Angharad Evans, Georgia
Eboni McCarty, Georgia
Abby McCulloh, Georgia
Chiara Pellacani, LSU
Brooklyn Douthwright, Tennessee
Josephine Fuller, Tennessee
Julia Mrozinski, Tennessee
Summer Smith, Tennessee
Sara Stotler, Tennessee
Ellen Walshe, Tennessee
Aviv Barzelay, Texas A&M