Swimming
Ahmed Jaouadi, 7:33.79 and Two Months Out of the Water: Reading a Solo Swim
US College Swimming 2026: The Gap Between the Headline and the Data
Women's 400m Individual Medley: The Breaststroke Leg and the Moment the Standings Are Rewritten
Pieter Coetze and 49.11 in Baku: An African Record Written in the Final 25 Metres
The Empty Cell on the Results Board: Vietnamese Swimming and the Price of a Null Data FieldThe results PDF sits in the top-left corner of the screen, and I zoom to 200...
Joey Eaddy Enters Top 12 All-Time in 1650-Yard Freestyle: 6.3 Seconds Gained, 25.7 Seconds Still From the RecordA short-course pool in New England, a late-September morning The board flashe...
Treyvn Krauss Chooses Michigan: The Data Profile of a #11 Distance SpecialistIn the 200-meter freestyle prelims at Summer Junior Nationals, Treyvn Krauss...
Vietnam's Swimming Data Gap: An Empty Sheet Is Not a Clean Bill of HealthDuring an internal testing session for a youth swim squad I was monitoring...
Yusei Imaizumi's 26.75 Seconds: Reading a World Junior Record With Data, Not EmotionThe scoreboard at the Niigata pool showed two time lines separated by 0.07...
McEvoy Tries Ice Hockey: Swimming World Cup Stop 3 in Astana and the Central Asian MoveOn the ice at Barys Astana, Cameron McEvoy lost his balance. The Australian 5...
Zona Smith Commits to Florida: A Sprint Profile and Three Years of Waiting in GainesvilleAt the NCISAA Division 1 state final, a sophomore stepped onto the blocks for...
Ahmed Jaouadi, 7:33.79 and Two Months Out of the Water: Reading a Solo SwimCharlottesville, a 25-meter pool, lane 4. Nobody on either side. No rival to...
Yu Yiting and the 55.17 Dance: An Asian Record Rewritten in SilenceHook I still hold in my mind the way the water kept a very thin ripple after...
US College Swimming 2026: The Gap Between the Headline and the DataIn the silence, I hear the breath of the match more clearly. I wrote that lin...
Grace Higdon and William & Mary: Decoding a Verbal Commitment Through Seven Layers of DataAutumn 2026. The electronic scoreboard at the FHSAA Class 1A Region 1 qualifi...
5 of Arizona State's 8 American Freshmen Swam Lifetime Bests in Their First Collegiate MeetIn November, at a short-course pool in Dallas, eight American freshmen on...
From Shoulder Injury to Ivy League Scholarship: The Journey of a Vietnamese-American BreaststrokerIn the world of American youth swimming, the story of a breaststroker who...
The Blank Cell on the Scoreboard: When Swimming's Data Room Is Forced to Say 'Insufficient Information'At a swimming meet's press room, after the water has gone flat again, there i...
Vietnamese Swimming and the Data Gap Behind the MedalsIn the summer of 2026, at the Jakarta Asian Games, an eighteen-year-old...
Swimming and Nine Layers of Data: Which Anchor Decides a Correct ConclusionIn the men's 200m breaststroke, the gap between gold and fourth place can be...
Vietnamese Swimming and the Data Problem: When No One Counts the LanesEight gold medals won by Nguyen Thi Anh Vien at the 29th SEA Games in Kuala...
Women's 400m Individual Medley: The Breaststroke Leg and the Moment the Standings Are RewrittenAt the 250th meter of the women's 400m individual medley final, as the field...
Pieter Coetze's 49.11 Seconds: Split Structure and the Gap to the Short-Course 100m Backstroke World RecordAt the 75-metre mark, the scoreboard stayed cruelly silent. Pieter Coetze was...
Pieter Coetze and 49.11 in Baku: An African Record Written in the Final 25 MetresSome races are decided in the very first metre, and some only reveal their tr...
Four US College Swimming Powerhouses, a Third Match and a Data Void: Decoding CSL Match 3In a live-recap of CSL Match 3, the writer states that the two previous match...
