Swimming
SEC Releases a 7-Day Format: One Day Added, Four Days Cut, and a Pilot With No Model
Caroline Bryan Commits to Rutgers 2028: Four State Titles and a 1.35-Second Gap
The U14 4×50m Freestyle Relay and the Data Void in Grassroots Swimming
The Empty Cell in the Results Sheet: When Missing Data Gets Read as Zero
When an Analysis Has No Data: Lessons from an Empty Swimming Document
A 2027 Commitment Is Not the Finish Line: Reading Jackson Kroh's Profile Through a Data Lens
55.17 Seconds and the Eleven-Year Silence of Asian Butterfly SwimmingThe number 55.17 appeared on the electronic scoreboard as Yu Yiting touched t...
The Silent Scoreboard: The Craft of Swimming Analysis and the Trap of Empty DataI received an analysis document eight pages long. Every line, every cell, eve...
Marrit Steenbergen Breaks European Record in 100m IM: 56.18 Seconds and an Unfilled GapIn lane 4, Marrit Steenbergen touched the wall and looked up at the scoreboar...
The American Swimming Machine Seen Through a Job Posting in Annapolis: When the Bottom of the Pyramid SpeaksThe American Swimming Machine Seen Through a Job Posting in Annapolis: When t...
Three Division II Golds and a Twelfth Place in the Big Ten: The Data Problem of Justice BeardThree national gold medals. Three personal bests. And a twelfth place. Justic...
Tuna Swim Club: One Person, Two Seats, and a Bottleneck Called Pool WaterTwo lines in the Tuna Swim Club job description sit less than a page apart, a...
Max Fowler Sets Georgia Tech's 1-Meter Record: One School Mark, Two Opposite Halves, and the Silence Inside a RosterBefore a diver's feet leave the board, there is a silence longer than the div...
Six Days at the Aichi Pool: A 2:04.83 World Record, Seven Golds, and Asia's 13-Year-Old GenerationAt the 150-metre mark of the men's 200m breaststroke final, the lane of Shin...
The Empty Nine-Dimension Table: The Limits of Swimming Data Analysis in the Regular SeasonAt 6:40 on the morning of 12 August 2026, in a twelfth-floor apartment in Wes...
SEC Releases a 7-Day Format: One Day Added, Four Days Cut, and a Pilot With No ModelI have been building a tracking spreadsheet of US collegiate conference...
Asiad 20: Vietnam's Swimming, One Morning, Three Distances, and the Single-Anchor Problem in the 1500m Freestyle8:00, September 22. Nguyen Thuy Hien enters the water for the women's 100m...
When Swimming Data Runs Dry: What an Empty Analysis Actually SaysOne number: 0. Not a result, not a ranking, not a touch count. That was the...
Allison Kelly and the 2:03.24 Problem: UVA Recruits a Versatile Profile, But the Data Doesn't Yet Say Where She SwimsHOOK 2:03.24. That is the first number I circled when I opened Allison Kelly'...
Max Barnes Commits to SMU: 13 Seconds in the 400 IM and a 2.06-Second Gap to ACC Scoring Range13.04 seconds. That is how much time Max Barnes dropped in the 400 IM during...