SEC Championships, Day 5: Hubert Kos Holds Off Baylor Nelson for 200 IM Win to Begin Tough Dobule
Six individual swimming events, women’s platform diving and the women’s and men’s 400 freestyle relay wrapped up competition Saturday evening at the SEC Championships. For the second straight year since joining the conference, the Texas Longhorns were the dominant team throughout the event on the way to a pair of team titles.
Individually, Hubert Kos competed in a tough double with final of the 200 IM and 200 backstroke, both events he won at the 2025 NCAA Championships, while Josh Liendo raced against tough competition in the 100 freestyle in his final conference meet. For the women, Texas’ Campbell Stoll and Tennessee’s Camille Spink were both shooting for their third individual wins of the meet.
Women - Team Rankings - Through Event 32 1. University of Texas 1003.5 2. University of Tennessee 817 3. University of Florida 804.5 4. South Carolina, University of, 543.5 5. Louisiana State University 533.5 6. University of Alabama 532.5 7. Georgia, University of 504 8. Auburn University 499.5 9. Texas A&M University 424 10. Missouri 344 11. University of Arkansas 245 12. Kentucky, University of 201 13. Vanderbilt University 118
Men - Team Rankings - Through Event 33 1. University of Texas 1110.5 2. University of Florida 1056 3. University of Tennessee 840.5 4. Auburn University 595 5. Georgia, University of 554 6. Louisiana State University 525 7. University of Alabama 505.5 8. Kentucky, University of 487 9. Texas A&M University 391.5 10. Missouri 347 11. South Carolina, University of, 308
Women’s 200 IM
The Texas Longhorns had championship hopes from the top-two qualifiers in the women’s 200 IM, Campbell Stoll and Campbell Chase. Stoll was looking particularly strong after capturing conference titles in the 100 and 200 butterfly earlier in the meet. Here, Stoll established an enormous lead over the front half of the race, the margin reaching more than a second by the 150-yard mark. But on the last two lengths, teammate Angie Coe pulled off a highly improbably comeback to steal the win by two hundredths.
Coe sat in third place entering the freestyle, with Stoll more than one-and-a-half seconds ahead. But Coe then finished in 26.47 to storm back and grab the win in 1:53.90, just ahead of Stoll’s 1:53.92. Not far back in third place was Tennessee’s Emily Brown in 1:54.26, grabbing her third top-three finish in individual races this week. Chase ended up fourth in 1:55.42.
Event 34 Women 200 Yard IM
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NCAA: N 1:48.37 3/16/2023 Kate Douglass, Virginia
SEC: S 1:51.62 2/20/2019 Meghan Small, Tennessee
Meet: M 1:51.62 2/20/2019 Meghan Small, Tennessee
Pool: P 1:48.37 3/16/2023 Kate Douglass, Virginia
1:57.88 NC
Name Year School Prelims Finals Points
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=== Championship Final ===
1 Coe, Angie A JR Texas 1:56.79 1:53.90 NC 32
r:+0.63 25.13 54.12 (28.99)
1:27.43 (33.31) 1:53.90 (26.47)
2 Stoll, Campbell JR Texas 1:55.06 1:53.92 NC 28
r:+0.66 24.18 52.07 (27.89)
1:25.90 (33.83) 1:53.92 (28.02)
3 Brown, Emily SO Tennessee-SE 1:55.59 1:54.26 NC 27
r:+0.72 24.76 52.93 (28.17)
1:27.10 (34.17) 1:54.26 (27.16)
4 Chase, Campbell SO Texas 1:55.46 1:55.42 NC 26
r:+0.73 24.61 54.38 (29.77)
1:27.50 (33.12) 1:55.42 (27.92)
5 Kruger, Lainy A JR FLOR-FL 1:56.84 1:55.67 NC 25
r:+0.67 25.34 54.47 (29.13)
1:28.04 (33.57) 1:55.67 (27.63)
6 Maluka, Ieva SR UGA-GA 1:55.82 1:55.82 NC 24
r:+0.66 25.22 53.81 (28.59)
1:27.76 (33.95) 1:55.82 (28.06)
7 Rabb, Grace FR FLOR-FL 1:57.07 1:57.56 NC 23
r:+0.67 25.45 54.51 (29.06)
1:28.79 (34.28) 1:57.56 (28.77)
8 Cheng, Chloe SR LSU-LA 1:58.09 1:58.43 22
r:+0.74 25.52 56.04 (30.52)
1:29.96 (33.92) 1:58.43 (28.47)
Men’s 200 IM
Hubert Kos got through the first half of a grueling double, but the win was hardly comfortable. The reigning national champion in the event jumped in front early but had to fight off teammate Baylor Nelson on the back half. Nelson, the top-ranked swimmer in the country this season who already claimed the conference title in the 200 IM, recorded a 29.19 breaststroke leg to get the gap down to a quarter-second, but Kos reasserted himself on the final turn to break away.
Kos finished in 1:40.53, moving up to third in the national standings behind Nelson and NC State’s Arsenio Bustos. His best time of 1:37.91 is tied for second in history with Destin Lasco, with only training partner Leon Marchand ahead. Nelson took second in 1:41.09 while Camden Taylor, a third Longhorn who was the winner of the 200 free two days earlier, was third in 1:41.57.
The Longhorns ended up sweeping the top-four spots as Campbell McKean held off Texas A&M’s Logan Brown for fourth, 1:41.78 to 1:41.80. McKean’s breaststroke split was even quicker than Nelson’s at 28.92.
Event 35 Men 200 Yard IM
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NCAA: N 1:36.34 3/23/2023 Leon Marchand, ASU
SEC: S 1:37.91 3/27/2025 Hubert Kos, Texas
Meet: M 1:38.13 2/21/2021 Caeleb Dressel, Florida
Pool: P 1:41.19 2/16/2022 Luca Urlando, Georgia
1:44.13 NC
Name Year School Prelims Finals Points
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=== Championship Final ===
1 Kos, Hubert SR Texas 1:42.25 1:40.53PNC 32
r:+0.61 20.99 45.73 (24.74)
1:16.01 (30.28) 1:40.53 (24.52)
2 Nelson, Baylor SR Texas 1:41.75 1:41.09PNC 28
r:+0.61 21.84 47.07 (25.23)
1:16.26 (29.19) 1:41.09 (24.83)
3 Taylor, Camden JR Texas 1:41.52 1:41.57 NC 27
r:+0.68 21.63 46.94 (25.31)
1:16.79 (29.85) 1:41.57 (24.78)
4 McKean, Campbel FR Texas 1:42.37 1:41.78 NC 26
r:+0.65 22.12 47.92 (25.80)
1:16.84 (28.92) 1:41.78 (24.94)
5 Brown, Logan H JR Texas A&M-GU 1:43.06 1:41.80 NC 25
r:+0.59 22.35 48.34 (25.99)
1:17.32 (28.98) 1:41.80 (24.48)
6 Urlando, Luca SR UGA-GA 1:42.31 1:42.29 NC 24
r:+0.62 21.64 46.67 (25.03)
1:17.51 (30.84) 1:42.29 (24.78)
7 Hitchcock, Drew SO UGA-GA 1:42.53 1:43.84 NC 23
r:+0.66 22.12 48.31 (26.19)
1:18.44 (30.13) 1:43.84 (25.40)
8 Kabbara, Munzy 5T Texas A&M-GU 1:43.34 1:44.07 NC 22
r:+0.63 21.86 47.78 (25.92)
1:18.40 (30.62) 1:44.07 (25.67)
Women’s 100 Freestyle
Competing in a conference meet in her home pool this week, Camille Spink has been the dominant freestyler. A narrow win in the 200 free was followed by a commanding 50 free win, where she became the fourth-fastest woman in history. Now, Spink has come through in the 100 free for her third individual win. Out in 21.64 and back in 24.37, Spink finished in 46.01 to win by three-quarters of a second.
With the effort, Spink became the fifth-fastest performer in history, and she finished just off the top-ranked time in the country this college season, the 45.98 from Virginia’s Anna Moesch. The title was the eighth individual win Spink has posted on the conference level; she completed the sweep of the 50, 100 and 200 free for the second consecutive season after winning the 50 and 100 with a second-place finish in the 200 as a freshman. Moreover, she led a massive 113-point effort for Tennessee in the event, vaulting the Lady Vols back ahead of Florida into second place.
Second place went to Texas’ Eva Okaro in 46.77, a little bit off her 46.49 performance from midseason that sits fifth in the country. Third went to Alabama’s Cadence Vincent in 47.06.
Event 36 Women 100 Yard Freestyle
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NCAA: N 44.71 3/22/2025 Gretchen Walsh, Virginia
SEC: S 45.83 2/22/2020 Erika Brown, Tennessee
Meet: M 45.83 2/22/2020 Erika Brown, Tennessee
Pool: P 45.61 3/18/2023 Gretchen Walsh, Virginia
48.60 NC
Name Year School Prelims Finals Points
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=== Championship Final ===
1 Spink, Camille JR Tennessee-SE 46.47 46.01 NC 32
r:+0.65 10.22 21.64 (11.42)
33.74 (12.10) 46.01 (12.27)
2 Okaro, Eva FR Texas 47.09 46.77 NC 28
r:+0.68 10.57 22.20 (11.63)
34.55 (12.35) 46.77 (12.22)
3 Vincent, Cadenc JR Alabama-SE 47.53 47.06 NC 27
r:+0.67 10.77 22.42 (11.65)
34.62 (12.20) 47.06 (12.44)
4 De Villiers, Mi SR LSU-LA 47.74 47.53 NC 26
r:+0.68 10.76 22.63 (11.87)
35.03 (12.40) 47.53 (12.50)
5 Gemmell, Erin M JR Texas 47.92 47.78 NC 25
r:+0.71 11.01 22.98 (11.97)
35.56 (12.58) 47.78 (12.22)
6 Padar, Nikolett FR Texas 48.05 47.81 NC 24
r:+0.71 10.96 23.02 (12.06)
35.52 (12.50) 47.81 (12.29)
7 Klevanovich, Li GS Auburn-SE 47.92 48.17 NC 23
r:+0.71 11.00 23.06 (12.06)
35.64 (12.58) 48.17 (12.53)
8 Armen, Emily SO Tennessee-SE 48.19 48.42 NC 22
r:+0.66 11.14 23.19 (12.05)
35.68 (12.49) 48.42 (12.74)
Men’s 100 Freestyle
Women’s 200 Backstroke
Men’s 200 Backstroke
Women’s Platform Diving
Women’s 400 Freestyle Relay
Men’s 400 Freestyle Relay
