Swimming
Arizona Smith Commits to Florida: The 16-Year-Old From Charlotte and the 2028 Sprint Map2026-10-19On a late June morning in Cary, North Carolina, Arizona Smith stepped onto th...
Deep Swimming Analysis: When Input Data Is Empty and Lessons on the Sports Analysis Pipeline2026-10-15In modern sports, data analysis has become an indispensable part of every...
Shoulder Injuries in Vietnam's National Swim Squad: Reading the Training-Load Sheet2026-10-06On March 11, 2026, at an indoor pool in northern Vietnam, I wrote the last li...
US College Swimming Week of October 5-12: How the College Swimming League Is Reshaping the Season's Structure2026-10-05In early October, while the water in American college pools still carried a...
Arizona Smith Commits to Florida: The 16-Year-Old From Charlotte and the 2028 Sprint MapOn a late June morning in Cary, North Carolina, Arizona Smith stepped onto th...
Arizona Smith and the 2028 Wave: When Florida Builds a Team From the Runners-UpIn a high school in Charlotte, North Carolina, there is a girl named Arizona ...
Arizona Smith and Florida's 2028 Swim Empire: When the Giant Quietly Stockpiles Every WeaponThere is a number nobody noticed in Arizona Smith's results last March: 22.95...
Gretchen Walsh's 22.75 Seconds: When the Short Course Leaves No Room for HesitationWhen Gretchen Walsh touched the wall in the 25-metre pool, the scoreboard rea...
Yu Yiting Breaks China's 400 IM Record: A Record Built on the Front 200 MetresAstana. A short-course World Cup stop, 25-metre pool. Yu Yiting touches the...
Deep Swimming Analysis: When Input Data Is Empty and Lessons on the Sports Analysis PipelineIn modern sports, data analysis has become an indispensable part of every...
Swimming: When the Scoreboard Shows Only One Number, What Does an Analyst Read on the Water?At a qualifying swimming round in Nha Trang on a weekend morning, I sat in th...
Maine Swimming and Diving Hall of Fame 2026: Five Names and What the Scoreboard Never PrintsIn a 25-yard pool, where the water is clear enough that you can read every ti...
Garrett Gould Misses First Two Meets With Injury: Texas and the Unsolved Sprint-Depth EquationA Name Erased From the Lineup Sheet Bloomington, Indiana. The final scoreboar...
Vietnamese Swimming and the Lesson of an Empty Data FileOn Friday evening I opened the data file for a domestic swimming meet to...
McEvoy Lowers His Own World Cup 50m Freestyle Record to 20.13: No.2 All-Time in Short CourseThe number 20.13 appeared on the scoreboard in Tashkent, and I read it twice...
The Empty Lane: Vietnamese Swimming and the Reckoning After the Ánh Viên EraThe Empty Lane: Vietnamese Swimming and the Reckoning After the Ánh Viên Era ...
Vietnamese Swimming in the Big-Meet Cycle: When Speed Begins with the SystemVietnamese Swimming in the Big-Meet Cycle: When Speed Begins with the System...
Shoulder Injuries in Vietnam's National Swim Squad: Reading the Training-Load SheetOn March 11, 2026, at an indoor pool in northern Vietnam, I wrote the last li...
1:55.44 in Evanston: Reading a Pool Record and a 3.59-Second Gap CorrectlyThat day in Evanston, Illinois, the scoreboard read 1:55.44. Lillie Nordmann...
US College Swimming Week of October 5-12: How the College Swimming League Is Reshaping the Season's StructureIn early October, while the water in American college pools still carried a...
250 Young Swimmers and the Summer Staffing Equation: A View from the US Swimming Talent Supply ChainIn the summer of 2026, I sat in the stands of an outdoor pool in suburban...
1,700 Tickets for a College Swim Meet: When the Pool Starts to PayOn the scoreboard at Avery Aquatic Center, the final number of the evening di...
Vietnamese Swimming and the Empty Data CellsOn the night of a SEA Games swimming final, the stands erupted as a Vietnames...
US College Swimming Weekly Analysis: The Rise of the CSL System and Talent Valuation Pressure at CalIn the world of sports data, a fixture list is often underestimated. But for...
Sam Short and the 7:25.55: When a 25m pool creates the 3rd legend in history, but the 50m pool holds the real questionSam Short touched the wall at 18:35 on July 16, 2026, after 32 laps without...
The Scoreboard Read 22.00 and the 0.24-Second Margin: Ben Armbruster Breaks Australia's Record in Prelims, but the World Ranking Still Tells Another StoryBenjamin Armbruster touched the wall after his preliminary heat of the men's...
