Swimming
SwimmingAlex Wood (2027) Verbally Commits to Johns Hopkins: Reading the Breaststroke Timeline Across Short Course and Long Course2026-10-13People read the SwimSwam recruiting item and stop at one number: 25.75 second...
SwimmingKosuke Makino's 51.06: An Asian Record in an Event the Olympics Doesn't Stage2026-10-11The first night of the 2026 Japanese National Short Course Championships. In...
SwimmingJapan Short Course Championships 2026: Kaito Tabuchi Sets Asian 1500m Record, Yusei Imaizumi Breaks World Junior Record2026-10-11Day one of the 2026 Japanese Short Course Championships delivered several...
SwimmingVietnam's Data-Deprived Pool: SEA Games and the Limits of the Medal Table2026-10-06The closing night of swimming finals at the SEA Games 31 at the My Dinh Water...
Treyvn Krauss Commits to Michigan: The No. 11 Recruit of 2028 and the Limits of Front SpeedThe Night Nobody Counted I have watched the tape of the 1500m freestyle final...
2026 Swimming World Cup Stop 3 in Astana: McEvoy on Ice, and the Roster Is the Real SignalCameron McEvoy stood on the ice at Barys Astana, wearing the jersey of a...
Yu Yiting Breaks Asian Record in 100 Butterfly at 55.17, Still 0.37 Behind VanotterdijkYu Yiting touched the wall, looked up at the board and saw 55.17. Two lanes...
Alex Wood (2027) Verbally Commits to Johns Hopkins: Reading the Breaststroke Timeline Across Short Course and Long CoursePeople read the SwimSwam recruiting item and stop at one number: 25.75 second...
Kosuke Makino's 51.06: An Asian Record in an Event the Olympics Doesn't StageThe first night of the 2026 Japanese National Short Course Championships. In...
Japan Short Course Championships 2026: Kaito Tabuchi Sets Asian 1500m Record, Yusei Imaizumi Breaks World Junior RecordDay one of the 2026 Japanese Short Course Championships delivered several...
The Blank Data Sheet and the Analyst's Duty to Say 'Insufficient Information'On the night of June 12, I opened a tracking file for a domestic swimming mee...
Nine Layers of Water: An Anatomy of a Swimming LaneA swimming lane has no grandstand. There are no drums, no scarves, no one...
Vietnamese Swimming After Ánh Viên: The Discipline of an Empty Data SheetOn a finals night, I reopened my spreadsheet and found an empty column. Not a...
Noelle Benkler Chooses Cal for 2028-29: An IM Symphony and the Art of Roster-Building in the Global Recruiting EraWhen I reviewed this season's college recruiting commitment list, one name ma...
Vietnam's Data-Deprived Pool: SEA Games and the Limits of the Medal TableThe closing night of swimming finals at the SEA Games 31 at the My Dinh Water...
Vietnam Swimming's Data Gap: When a Record Has No Source to Cross-CheckAt a national swimming championship, a swimmer touched the wall in a time the...
The 29.25 Split Between Two Seasons: Reading Lexi Hartzell's Profile Before She Reaches OaklandI read the timesheet three times before I believed my eyes. Among the hundred...
Vietnamese Swimming: A Data Gap Wider Than the Medal GapOn my desk there is a spreadsheet with twelve sheets. Eleven of them are empt...
Katharine Berkoff Between 26.90 and 57.93: Two Numbers, One Road to Los Angeles 2028The women's 100m backstroke final at the 2026 Pan Pacific Championships....
