Swimming
Yusei Imaizumi, 17, Breaks World Junior Record in 50m Breaststroke: 26.75 Seconds in Niigata
Vietnamese Swimming and the Olympic A-Cut Race: An Analysis of Technique, Data, and Systemic Gaps
Maddie Loken, 1:02.68 and the 0.69 Seconds That Define a Penn State Recruiting Slot
Decoding Shoulder Injuries in Vietnamese Swimmers: When the Body Tells a Story the Scoreboard Stays Silent
The Zero in the Lane: When Swimming Data Has Nothing Left to Extract
0.13 Seconds After 14 Years: What an Empty Swimming Analysis Taught MeOn the night of the women's 200m freestyle final in Fukuoka, July 2026, Molli...
Zona Smith Commits to Florida: Five Personal Bests in Cary and the Yard-to-Meter GapAt Cary Sectionals in March, the women's 50 freestyle. The clock read 22.95....
Yusei Imaizumi, 17, Breaks World Junior Record in 50m Breaststroke: 26.75 Seconds in NiigataOctober, at a provincial pool in Niigata, a seventeen-year-old touched the wa...
Walsh Lowers 50m SCM Freestyle World Record to 22.75: What the Scoreboard Does Not SayThe board at the University of Virginia pool went from 22.94 to 22.75 inside...
College Swimming League Match 5: Four Top-10 NCAA Teams and the 25-Yard ProblemOne evening of competition in a 25-yard pool, four teams, and almost no...
Women's 400m Freestyle: The Fifth 50m Split and the Trap of a Fast StartAt the women's 400m freestyle final, there was a moment the television camera...
Vietnamese Swimming and the Empty Data String: When a Label Is Not Enough to Tell the StoryThat night, in a newsroom in Hanoi, my computer screen lit up with an empty...
Stroke Rate or Stroke Length: The Trade-Off That Shapes Every Freestyle RecordOne evening after the stands had emptied, I stayed behind and replayed the...
Cindy Hook to leave Brisbane 2032 CEO role: organizing committee shifts from startup to delivery phaseThe pink cockatoo logo had barely been unveiled by the Brisbane 2032 Olympic...
Wilson York Commits to Cal: The Numbers Behind America's No. 5 Breaststroke Recruit and the Class of 2028The scoreboard at the Junior Pan Pacs men's 200m breaststroke final stopped a...
Vietnamese Swimming and the Olympic A-Cut Race: An Analysis of Technique, Data, and Systemic GapsThe starting beep sounds, and for the first instant the stands see almost...
Nine Layers of Data Behind a Swimming LaneI opened my spreadsheet again for a 200m individual medley race. The workbook...
Owen Miklos Commits to Alabama: The No. 15 Ranking and the Real Gap in Distance FreestyleWhen Owen Miklos's commitment line appeared on the U.S. college recruiting...
A Blank Page in the Lane: The Craft of Reading Numbers and the Honesty of DataThe data table returned a blank line. That is the sentence I wrote in my...
Lila Sherman Commits to Duke for 2027: Reading a Swimming Recruiting Post Through Three Cross-Checked SourcesIn the recruiting post published on SwimSwam, one line stopped me in the midd...
Zionsville Swim Club Seeks a Full-Time Coach: 275 Athletes, Three Pools, and the Hidden Structure of American Swimming275 athletes. Three pools. One full-time coaching seat left vacant. Those thr...
Claire Burns Commits to Alabama: Reading a Swimming Scholarship Through the Numbers2:00.73 is the threshold time for a woman to earn a second swim in the 200m...
Claire Burns, the 0.54-Second Threshold, and the Story Behind a Recruiting HeadlineThe water broke against the wall with a dry crack, then went silent. Claire...
1:47.47 and a 3.48-Second Gap: How to Read Northwestern's Early CommitmentIn March, at the Four Corners Sectionals, the scoreboard locked a number in t...
Maddie Loken, 1:02.68 and the 0.69 Seconds That Define a Penn State Recruiting SlotThree touches on the wall in a single session, three times the scoreboard...
The Empty Cell in the Swimming SpreadsheetJuly 2026, a small office in District 3, Saigon. A junior colleague sent me a...
Decoding Shoulder Injuries in Vietnamese Swimmers: When the Body Tells a Story the Scoreboard Stays SilentThere are mornings at Phu Tho pool when I sit on the nearly empty stands and...
Zona Smith Commits to Florida: Five Personal Bests in Cary and the Yard-to-Meter GapAt Cary Sectionals in March, the women's 50 freestyle. The clock read 22.95....
Yusei Imaizumi, 17, Breaks World Junior Record in 50m Breaststroke: 26.75 Seconds in NiigataOctober, at a provincial pool in Niigata, a seventeen-year-old touched the wa...
Walsh Lowers 50m SCM Freestyle World Record to 22.75: What the Scoreboard Does Not SayThe board at the University of Virginia pool went from 22.94 to 22.75 inside...
College Swimming League Match 5: Four Top-10 NCAA Teams and the 25-Yard ProblemOne evening of competition in a 25-yard pool, four teams, and almost no...
Women's 400m Freestyle: The Fifth 50m Split and the Trap of a Fast StartAt the women's 400m freestyle final, there was a moment the television camera...
Vietnamese Swimming and the Empty Data String: When a Label Is Not Enough to Tell the StoryThat night, in a newsroom in Hanoi, my computer screen lit up with an empty...
Stroke Rate or Stroke Length: The Trade-Off That Shapes Every Freestyle RecordOne evening after the stands had emptied, I stayed behind and replayed the...
Cindy Hook to leave Brisbane 2032 CEO role: organizing committee shifts from startup to delivery phaseThe pink cockatoo logo had barely been unveiled by the Brisbane 2032 Olympic...
Wilson York Commits to Cal: The Numbers Behind America's No. 5 Breaststroke Recruit and the Class of 2028The scoreboard at the Junior Pan Pacs men's 200m breaststroke final stopped a...
Vietnamese Swimming and the Olympic A-Cut Race: An Analysis of Technique, Data, and Systemic GapsThe starting beep sounds, and for the first instant the stands see almost...
Nine Layers of Data Behind a Swimming LaneI opened my spreadsheet again for a 200m individual medley race. The workbook...
Owen Miklos Commits to Alabama: The No. 15 Ranking and the Real Gap in Distance FreestyleWhen Owen Miklos's commitment line appeared on the U.S. college recruiting...
A Blank Page in the Lane: The Craft of Reading Numbers and the Honesty of DataThe data table returned a blank line. That is the sentence I wrote in my...
Lila Sherman Commits to Duke for 2027: Reading a Swimming Recruiting Post Through Three Cross-Checked SourcesIn the recruiting post published on SwimSwam, one line stopped me in the midd...
Zionsville Swim Club Seeks a Full-Time Coach: 275 Athletes, Three Pools, and the Hidden Structure of American Swimming275 athletes. Three pools. One full-time coaching seat left vacant. Those thr...
Claire Burns Commits to Alabama: Reading a Swimming Scholarship Through the Numbers2:00.73 is the threshold time for a woman to earn a second swim in the 200m...
Claire Burns, the 0.54-Second Threshold, and the Story Behind a Recruiting HeadlineThe water broke against the wall with a dry crack, then went silent. Claire...
1:47.47 and a 3.48-Second Gap: How to Read Northwestern's Early CommitmentIn March, at the Four Corners Sectionals, the scoreboard locked a number in t...
Maddie Loken, 1:02.68 and the 0.69 Seconds That Define a Penn State Recruiting SlotThree touches on the wall in a single session, three times the scoreboard...
The Empty Cell in the Swimming SpreadsheetJuly 2026, a small office in District 3, Saigon. A junior colleague sent me a...
Decoding Shoulder Injuries in Vietnamese Swimmers: When the Body Tells a Story the Scoreboard Stays SilentThere are mornings at Phu Tho pool when I sit on the nearly empty stands and...