2025 SEC Championships Psych Sheets: Urlando, Modglin, and Maurer All Make Revealing Event Choices

2026 SEC Championships

• Dates: Monday, February 16–Saturday, February 21
• Location: Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center, Knoxville, TN
• Defending Champions: Texas (1x)
• Live Results
• Live Video: SEC Network+
• Psych Sheet (UPDATED)
• Schedule of Events
• Championship Central
• Teams: Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M
• 1650 Heat Sheets

The SEC has released its post-cut psych sheets for the 2026 Championships. While this version does not force teams to reduce each swimmer to their maximum three individual entries, it does force teams to reduce their rosters to the maximum 22 athletes (with swimmers and divers each counting as one roster spot).

In spite of many swimmers being over-entered, there are still a number of headline-worthy choices that have been revealed by the release.

• Georgia’s Luca Urlando will not swim the 100 back
• Texas’ Will Modglin will not swim the 100 breast
• Texas’ Rex Maurer will not swim the 1650 free

Urlando Avoids a Tough Double

Urlando, who was once the U.S. Open Record holder in the 100 yard backstroke, won’t even consider the event as his third outside of his primary 100 and 200 yard butterfly races. Instead, that other event will be either the 200 IM (#8 seed) or 200 back (#10 seed).

While he almost swam the backstroke leg of the American 400 medley relay at the World Championships, Urlando seems more focused on 200 yard races this week in Athens. That makes sense, as he sort of knows what his potential is in the 100 yard back, but doesn’t really know what his ceiling is in the 200 yard back or IM. He swam the 200 IM at the 2022 NCAA Championships in 1:39.22, and his best time in the 200 back is from a late-season dual meet in 2025, where he swam 1:38.18.

Given his ability in the 200 fly and 100 back, it stands to reason that he could have a good 200 back in him. The 100 back and 200 fly are back-to-back races on the SEC Championship schedule. That changes in March, when the 200 back and 200 fly are back-to-back at NCAAs and the new NCAA schedule makes the popular 100 fly/100 back combo on different days.

Potential SEC Lineup:

• Tuesday – 200 medley relay & 800 free relay
• Wednesday – 200 fly
• Thursday – 100 fly + 400 medley relay
• Friday – 200 free relay
• Saturday – 200 IM, 200 back, 400 free relay

Is the Will Modglin 100 Breast Experiment Over?

Texas junior Will Modglin, meanwhile, holds entries in the 100 back (#1 seed), 100 fly (#11 seed), 200 IM (#2 seed), and 200 back (#4 seed).

Modglin, an extremely versatile swimmer, raced the 100 breaststroke mid-season, where he swam 50.91 at the Texas Hall of Fame Invitational – a 2 second time drop. That time would have placed him 10th at NCAAs las year.

Last year at NCAAs, he was DQ’ed in the 200 IM, finished 7th in the 100 back, and finished 8th in the 200 back.

His traditional 200 IM-100 back-200 back schedule doesn’t work as well at NCAAs under the new system: the 200 IM and 200 back are both on day 4, albeit with a significant break in between. The 100 breaststroke does not conflict with either backstroke race, though neither does the 100 fly or 400 IM.

Best guess is that Modglin will test the 100 fly here and see whether that or the 100 breast should be his choice in the new format.

Rex Maurer Doesn’t Have an NCAA Qualifying Time in the 1650 Free

Texas junior Rex Maurer was 2nd at last year’s NCAA Championship meet in the 1650 free, but hasn’t swum that race this season. That will be true again at the SEC Championships, and would mean a Last Chance Meet would be his only avenue to a nationals qualifying spot.

Maurer’s truer path, both in college and internationally, has always felt more like middle distance, and this indicates he and his coach Bob Bowman are ready to commit there.

His other entries are the 200 fly (#8 seed), 400 IM (#5 seed), 500 free (#1 seed), 200 IM (#7 seed), and 200 back (#9 seed).

Maurer is the defending NCAA Champion in both the 500 free and 400 IM. If he swam those two events at SECs, he could then swim the 200 IM , 200 fly, or 200 back without facing a double; at NCAAs, those three events would all avoid a double as well.

If nothing else, skipping the mile at NCAAs saves Maurer from having to swim both that race and the 800 free relay in the same session (though I suspect from some swimmers, there will be some navigating to attempt a not-top-8-seed in the mile to avoid the worst part of that double).

Other Noteworthy Entries (or Non-Entries)

• No David Johnston for Texas. He swam against Alabama in October, but hasn’t raced since – for Texas or anywhere else.
• Georgia’s Drew Hitchcock won’t swim the 100 fly, where he ranks tied-for-4th in the SEC this season. He will instead swim the 200 fly (#4 seed), 400 IM (#4 seed), and 200 IM (#16 seed). He swam the 200 IM at NCAAs last year as well.
• There are way fewer things of note on the women’s side, but one is that burgeoning Texas star Campbell Stoll, a junior, has narrowed her lineup down to the 200 fly (#1 seed), 100 fly (#2 seed), 400 IM (#2 seed), and 200 IM (#7 seed). That means dropping top 10 seeds in the 100 back and 200 breast. While the 200 IM feels like a bit of an outlier – the 100 fly and 400 IM are back-to-back at SECs, making for a very tough double.