T&T Youth Olympic Games gold 50m backstroke medallist Christian Homer won an individual bronze and relay silver medal to help the University of Florida men's swimming and diving programme secure its third-straight and 36th overall South Eastern Conference (SEC) Championship at the James E Martin Aquatic Centre, Auburn, Alabama.
The programme's 36 SEC team championships ranks second among all sports in the history of the SEC (Kentucky Men's Basketball is first with 45).
A 2012 SEC All-Freshman Team Honouree and 2014 Academic Honour Roll selection, Homer, now a senior, touched the wall third in the men's 100-yard butterfly A-Final in 46.26 seconds to trail schoolmate Caeleb Dressel (45.28) and LSU's Frank Greeff (46.24).
The T&T swimmer then swam the third-leg of his team's 400-yard medley relay splash for silver in three minutes, 05.09 seconds, the fourth best time for the event in school history.
The quartet of Homer, Solaeche-Gomez, Dressel and Corey Main also had a fifth-place finish in the 200-yard medley relay in 1:24.95, also the fourth best in school history while individually, Homer was eighth in the 100-yard backstroke final in 46.73, and third in the 200-yards backstroke final with a time of 1:42.70.
And in a time trial swim, Main, Dressel, Homer and Matt Curby touched the wall in 1:18.07 in the 200-yard freestyle, well under the NCAA "B" qualifying standard of 1:18.62.
Overall, Florida "Gators" tallied 1,314.5 points well ahead of Georgia (1234.5) and Auburn (1084) while it won a total of seven SEC championships combined, broke three school records and registered 16 other UF top-ten times.
The Gator men were strong in all events, capturing individual victories in the 100-yard butterfly (Dressel) and the 500-yard freestyle (Mitch D'Arrigo) and earned a relay gold in the 800-yard freestyle event while the third placed UF's women won four SEC championships, as Florida captured the 100-yard (Natalie Hinds), 200-yard (Amelia Maughan) and 1,650-yard freestyle (Jessica Thielmann) titles and the 200-yard individual medley crown (Theresa Michalak).
Georgia (1,450) won the women's title ahead of Texas A&M (1,166) for the second year in a row.
Homer will next compete at the 2015 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships from March 26-28 in Iowa City, Iowa. at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center.
This after he was one of the Gators 14 men to qualify from the various meets through the season.