Texas’ Campbell Stoll Chooses 100 Fly Over 400 IM on Thursday at SECs (Scratch Report)

2026 SEC Championships

• Dates: Monday, February 16–Saturday, February 21
• Location: Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center, Knoxville, TN
• Defending Champions: Texas (1x)
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• Teams: Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt (women only), Arkansas (women only)
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THURSDAY PRELIMS HEAT SHEETS

Texas Campbell Stoll dropped the women’s 400 IM as the most significant decision among top 10 scratches for Thursday’s prelims session at the SEC Championships.

The junior Stoll was the #2 seed in the event behind only Tennessee’s Ella Jansen and finished 3rd at last year’s meet. Stoll won the 200 fly on Wednesday evening for her first career SEC title. She won the 400 IM as a freshman in the Big 12.

Stoll will instead swim the 100 fly, where she is also the #2 seed (50.98) behind her teammate Eva Okaro (50.82), though Tennessee’s Mizuki Hirai, a huge mid-season addition, is lurking as the #5 seed (51.49).

In spite of Okaro’s presence as the top seed, the Longhorns are much better overall in the 400 IM than the 100 fly. After scratches (Angie Coe chose the 400 IM over the 100 fly), they are the Longhorns’ only two swimmers seeded to score, but Texas has four in the points in the 400 IM, so on a team scoring perspective, this is probably a very slightly positive choice (and derisks the scoring decision a bit).

Jansen, meanwhile, chose that 400 IM (#1 seed) over the 200 free (#5 seed). After Stoll’s scratch, Jansen is the top seed in the 400 IM by three seconds.

On the men’s side, Texas transfer Baylor Nelson made his big choice and dropped the 200 free (#9 seed) for the 400 IM (#1 seed).

While the two races both moved significantly in the new NCAA Championship schedule, they still fall on the same day and are back-to-back swimming races (separated by three rounds of diving), so he’ll still have to make the choice come March.

Other Top 10 Scratches

• Georgia’s Ieva Maluka scratched the 200 free as the #10 seed and will instead race the 400 IM, where she is now up to the #3 seed. She swims both races internationally, and the 200 free is what put her on the World Championship team, but the 400 IM is probably her better race in yards.
• After finishing 2nd in the 200 fly on Wednesday, Tennessee’s Emily Brown scratched the 100 fly on Thursday. She will instead swim the 400 IM as the #2 seed.
• Texas A&M freshman Chase Swearingen has dropped the men’s 100 fly as the #4 seed. One of the bright spots in what has been a challenging year for the Aggies, he only had three entries in the meet, and this was easily his best of those. He has remaining slots in the 50 and 100 free. He didn’t swim on A&M’s 200 medle relay on Tuesday.