Swimming
Texas A&M Missing Seven of 26 Swimmers in First Two Dual Meets: Reading the Data Void Before November 18
Northwestern Sweeps Miami (OH): Lillie Nordmann's 1:55.44 Pool Record and the 3.6-Second Gap Worth Reading Correctly
The 1500m Freestyle Lane: Where the Breakdown Surfaces in the Final 300 Metres
WADA 2026 Report: Testing Increases but Growth Slows, Exposing Financial and Compliance Gaps
Texas A&M Missing Seven of 26 Swimmers in First Two Dual Meets: Reading the Data Void Before November 18On October 10, the Texas A&M men's swimming team opened its 2026-27 season wi...
Le Moyne moves to the Metro in 2027-28: the last-place women's finish is the most telling datapointThe most recent NEC Championships scoreboard reduces to four lines: the Le...
Sam Short and the 2.91 Seconds That Don't Live in His LungsThe hand hits the pad, the head turns to the board, and Sam Short does not...
Mikayla Tan and Stanford's Third Top-10 Verbal: Reading the 0.06-Second Gap Between Short Course and Long Course0.06 seconds In December 2026, at Winter Juniors West, a women's 100-yard...
When the Swimming Medal Table Stops Telling the Truth: A Data PerspectiveThe Saigon summer of 2026, I sat in front of a blank Excel spreadsheet. That...
Steenbergen Claims Four Triple Crowns as Coetze Flips the Overall Standings in AstanaAstana, the final night of the World Cup swimming series. Pieter Coetze touch...
Four Minutes on ESPN, Zero Laps: When a College Pool Becomes an NFL Linebacker's Recovery RoomThe man lies face-down on the surface, both hands gripping a float, moving...
Astana, the Barys Ice Rink and the Expansion Map of the 2026 Swimming World CupCameron McEvoy stands on the ice at the Barys Astana arena, knees bent, both...
Zona Smith Commits to Florida: Her 100 Back Improvement Rate Is Nearly Double Her Freestyle GainOn the same evening, in the same pool, Zona Smith swam the 100 yard freestyle...
Zona Smith Commits to Florida for 2028: The 22.95 Breakout and a Crowded Training GroupIn the NCISAA Division 1 results earlier this year, one line made me stop...
The Lane With No Data: When a Sports Analysis Room Confesses Its Own EmptinessThere is a moment in this craft when you learn to look at the empty space...
Cassie Espinoza Commits to USC: The 2032 Contract and the Data Gap Nobody Dares NameIn the dataset that SwimSwam published about Cassie Espinoza, there is one...
Gretchen Walsh and 22.75 Seconds: A Short-Course Record Is Not a Long-Course PromiseThe clock stopped at 22.75 seconds. Gretchen Walsh touched the wall in the...
Grace Higdon Commits to William & Mary: 1:04.12, Roster Depth, and an Unanswered EquationI hit my stopwatch on lane 4 as Grace Higdon touched the wall, and that...
Vietnamese Swimming and the Blank Notebook: The Data Gap After the Ánh Viên EraThe stopwatch in my hand stopped at 2 minutes 11.43 seconds. That was the tim...
Vietnamese swimming and the challenge of securing continental competition slots: When individual results are not enough to open the doorIn Vietnam's sports landscape in recent years, swimming has emerged as one of...
