Swimming
Merrimack Adds Men's Swimming: Three Programs in One Week and the Arithmetic Beneath the WaterThe pool is the only grandstand in sport where silence is never treated as a...
Merrimack College Announces Men's Swimming & Diving Program, Marking a New Wave in College SportsIn the context of U.S. college athletics seeing many programs cut, Merrimack...
Nine Empty Columns in Miami: The Discipline of a Data-Driven Swimming WriterAt 2:47 a.m. in Miami, the spreadsheet on my second monitor opened with nine...
Mikayla Tan, the 0.06-Second Gap, and How Stanford Is Rebuilding Its Breaststroke BlockOn the scoreboard of a short-course pool in California, the clock stopped at...
22.36 Seconds in Astana: How a World Cup Series Changed Hands in Half a Second22.36 Seconds in Astana: How a World Cup Series Changed Hands in Half a Secon...
The Four Missing Data Fields Behind Every Vietnamese Swimming Record in 2028At 9:14 a.m. on 12 May 2028, a 41-second video surfaced on social media: a...
Emma Redman's 2:09.80 at UVA–Florida: the 2:10 barrier falls mid-season, and what the data still cannot sayThe scoreboard at the University of Virginia pool read 2:09.80. Emma Redman...
The Empty Report: What a Swimming Analysis With No Data Taught Me About Sports WritingParis, the evening of 2 August 2026. In lane four of the men's 400m individua...
Arizona Smith and the Florida Gamble: When a 22.95 Split Speaks Louder Than Any RankingThere is a moment in American scholastic swimming that I always rewind twice,...
Cassie Espinoza: The USC Commitment Report That Mixed Two Measurement SystemsA commitment report of fewer than four hundred words, published on SwimSwam's...
1.46 Million USD and Three World Records: The Truth About the 2026 Swimming World CupThe 2026 Swimming World Cup closed with total prize money of 1.46 million USD...
Yu Yiting, 2:02.63 and the Price of a Wasted SecondLast week, Yu Yiting went out a full second faster than she had the week befo...
Astana Closes the Books: Coetze's 1:48.08, Corbeau's Half-Second and an $85,000 InvoiceCaspar Corbeau touched the wall in the men's 200m breaststroke final half a...
Gretchen Walsh's 22.75: When a World Record Is Just a Byproduct of a Training MeetWhen Kate Douglass touched the wall in 22.94 seconds and the scoreboard...
Kate Douglass's 22.94: A New U.S. Open Record and the 0.01-Second Gap to HistoryThe scoreboard in Charlottesville ticked over at the close of the second...
Kate Douglass Breaks the U.S. Open Record in the 50 Free (SCM) at 22.94: The Hundredth-of-a-Second GapThe pool at Charlottesville was already emptying when the second session of t...
UVA SCM Pro Elite 2026: Reading the Skeleton of a Seeding ListOn Meet Mobile, Session 1 of the 2026 UVA SCM Pro Elite meet reads cleanly: 1...
Vietnamese Swimming in the SEA Games Cycle: Human Limits, Training Systems and the Rights BubbleThe Water and the Limit: Vietnamese Swimming in the SEA Games Cycle Opening —...
Gomi Tomonobu shatters Asian short-course 100m butterfly record, becomes first Asian swimmer under 49 secondsThe 2026 Japanese Short Course Championships (25m pool) witnessed a historic...
Babson Beats Bentley 172-116: 26 Years Reviewed Through Every Column of DataThe final score was 172-116. On the scoreboard of a New England dual meet, a...
45.94 Seconds in Tokyo: When the Hurdle Track Becomes a Mirror of Human LimitsOn August 3, 2026, I sat in the commentary booth at Tokyo's Olympic Stadium, ...
Kosuke Makino and 51.06 seconds: the Asian short-course 100m IM record changes handsThe sound of a hand striking the wall rang out in one dry beat, then stopped....
After the Ánh Viên Era: Which Data Curve Is Hiding Behind Vietnam's Swimming MedalsAt the end of 2026, Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên announced her retirement. The swimmer...
The 46.40-Second Record and the Lesson of Data Verification on the Olympic LaneOn the 50-metre lane in Paris, on 31 July 2026, Pan Zhanle touched the wall a...
Steenbergen's European 100 IM Record: 56.18 Seconds and the 1.07-Second Gap56.18 seconds. That is the number just posted on the scoreboard at the Swimmi...
Merrimack College Announces Men's Swimming & Diving Program, Marking a New Wave in College SportsIn the context of U.S. college athletics seeing many programs cut, Merrimack...
Nine Empty Columns in Miami: The Discipline of a Data-Driven Swimming WriterAt 2:47 a.m. in Miami, the spreadsheet on my second monitor opened with nine...
Mikayla Tan, the 0.06-Second Gap, and How Stanford Is Rebuilding Its Breaststroke BlockOn the scoreboard of a short-course pool in California, the clock stopped at...
22.36 Seconds in Astana: How a World Cup Series Changed Hands in Half a Second22.36 Seconds in Astana: How a World Cup Series Changed Hands in Half a Secon...
The Four Missing Data Fields Behind Every Vietnamese Swimming Record in 2028At 9:14 a.m. on 12 May 2028, a 41-second video surfaced on social media: a...
Emma Redman's 2:09.80 at UVA–Florida: the 2:10 barrier falls mid-season, and what the data still cannot sayThe scoreboard at the University of Virginia pool read 2:09.80. Emma Redman...
The Empty Report: What a Swimming Analysis With No Data Taught Me About Sports WritingParis, the evening of 2 August 2026. In lane four of the men's 400m individua...
Arizona Smith and the Florida Gamble: When a 22.95 Split Speaks Louder Than Any RankingThere is a moment in American scholastic swimming that I always rewind twice,...
Cassie Espinoza: The USC Commitment Report That Mixed Two Measurement SystemsA commitment report of fewer than four hundred words, published on SwimSwam's...
1.46 Million USD and Three World Records: The Truth About the 2026 Swimming World CupThe 2026 Swimming World Cup closed with total prize money of 1.46 million USD...
Yu Yiting, 2:02.63 and the Price of a Wasted SecondLast week, Yu Yiting went out a full second faster than she had the week befo...
Astana Closes the Books: Coetze's 1:48.08, Corbeau's Half-Second and an $85,000 InvoiceCaspar Corbeau touched the wall in the men's 200m breaststroke final half a...
Gretchen Walsh's 22.75: When a World Record Is Just a Byproduct of a Training MeetWhen Kate Douglass touched the wall in 22.94 seconds and the scoreboard...
Kate Douglass's 22.94: A New U.S. Open Record and the 0.01-Second Gap to HistoryThe scoreboard in Charlottesville ticked over at the close of the second...
Kate Douglass Breaks the U.S. Open Record in the 50 Free (SCM) at 22.94: The Hundredth-of-a-Second GapThe pool at Charlottesville was already emptying when the second session of t...
UVA SCM Pro Elite 2026: Reading the Skeleton of a Seeding ListOn Meet Mobile, Session 1 of the 2026 UVA SCM Pro Elite meet reads cleanly: 1...
Vietnamese Swimming in the SEA Games Cycle: Human Limits, Training Systems and the Rights BubbleThe Water and the Limit: Vietnamese Swimming in the SEA Games Cycle Opening —...
Gomi Tomonobu shatters Asian short-course 100m butterfly record, becomes first Asian swimmer under 49 secondsThe 2026 Japanese Short Course Championships (25m pool) witnessed a historic...
Babson Beats Bentley 172-116: 26 Years Reviewed Through Every Column of DataThe final score was 172-116. On the scoreboard of a New England dual meet, a...
45.94 Seconds in Tokyo: When the Hurdle Track Becomes a Mirror of Human LimitsOn August 3, 2026, I sat in the commentary booth at Tokyo's Olympic Stadium, ...
Kosuke Makino and 51.06 seconds: the Asian short-course 100m IM record changes handsThe sound of a hand striking the wall rang out in one dry beat, then stopped....
After the Ánh Viên Era: Which Data Curve Is Hiding Behind Vietnam's Swimming MedalsAt the end of 2026, Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên announced her retirement. The swimmer...
The 46.40-Second Record and the Lesson of Data Verification on the Olympic LaneOn the 50-metre lane in Paris, on 31 July 2026, Pan Zhanle touched the wall a...
Steenbergen's European 100 IM Record: 56.18 Seconds and the 1.07-Second Gap56.18 seconds. That is the number just posted on the scoreboard at the Swimmi...
