Swimming
SwimmingGretchen Walsh Breaks 50m Short Course Freestyle World Record: 22.75 Seconds and an Internal American Race2026-10-17I clicked the stopwatch as Gretchen Walsh touched the wall. 22.75 seconds. Th...
SwimmingCal 2026, Cal 2028 and Virginia 2026: Three Swimming Recruiting Classes and an Unverified Belief2026-10-09October in Berkeley, and a thin layer of mist still hangs over the pool at...
SwimmingBaku 2026, One Week Out: The Beijing Ticket and Two Marks That Still Need Verification2026-09-25On the evening of September 24, 2026, the organisers of the Baku stop publish...
SwimmingPeter Tonkin – A 55-Year Journey Concludes: From 2026 Olympian to Pioneer of Indigenous Swimming Development2026-09-23Peter Tonkin officially retired after 55 years in Australian swimming,...
SwimmingVietnamese Women's Swimming and the Load Problem: The Story That Never Reaches the Scoreboard2026-09-18The water in the warm-up pool is so still that the coach's stopwatch sounds...
SwimmingJane Kavanagh Commits to Notre Dame: A Running Start for the Fighting Irish Women's ACC Ambitions2026-09-06Jane Kavanagh, a teenage swimmer from Westfield, New Jersey, has officially...
Ben Oswiecinski and the 10-Second Mile Drop: What Is Bucknell Actually Buying in a 1650-Yard Specialist?There is one number in Ben Oswiecinski's file that you will skip if you read...
Kate Douglass Swims 22.94 in Charlottesville: U.S. Open Record in 50 Free SCMWhen the scoreboard in Charlottesville flashed 22.94, the time-trial session...
Gretchen Walsh Breaks 50m Short Course Freestyle World Record: 22.75 Seconds and an Internal American RaceI clicked the stopwatch as Gretchen Walsh touched the wall. 22.75 seconds. Th...
Grace Higdon Commits to William & Mary: Reading the Numbers Behind a Breaststroke SpecialistGrace Higdon Commits to William & Mary: Reading the Numbers Behind a...
Reading Swimming Data: When a 25-Metre and a 50-Metre Pool Speak Different LanguagesOn the scoreboard, the number 3:56.08 lights up in the men's 400-metre...
Vietnamese Swimming in 2026: What the Hand-Held Stopwatch Never RecordedThe stopwatch stopped at 58.4 seconds. The stand at the city's central pool...
The 300-metre mark in women's swimming: where technique rewrites the raceAt the finish of the women's 400-metre freestyle, there is a moment televisio...
Cal 2026, Cal 2028 and Virginia 2026: Three Swimming Recruiting Classes and an Unverified BeliefOctober in Berkeley, and a thin layer of mist still hangs over the pool at...
Vietnamese Swimming: The Data Gap Behind Every LaneFrom the stands of a domestic meet, I clicked my stopwatch as a female swimme...
Swimming and the Trust in Data: When Records Need to Be Re-readOn the night of the women's 200-metre freestyle final, I replayed the footage...
Owen Miklos Commits to Alabama Crimson Tide: The First of the Class of 2028 and the Numbers That Need VerifyingOn a June morning in Nha Trang, I reopened a spreadsheet I had saved at the...
Sammons Commits to Cal: The Class of 2028's No. 2 Talent and the Long-Course GapIn early October, in Charlotte, North Carolina, a 17-year-old swimmer posted ...
Lexi Hartzell Verbals to Oakland: Behind the Relay Gold and a Six-Second DropLexi Hartzell, an Ohio state champion, has verbally committed to Oakland...
Josiah Collins and the 1.58-Second Gap: A Verbal Commitment That Doesn't Tell the Whole StoryOne December morning, I opened SwimSwam. The college recruiting channel. The...
Cutino 2026: Twenty Names Open the US Collegiate Men's Water Polo SeasonOn September 28, 2026, while the water in several American college pools stil...
SwimSwam's 2028 Recruiting Database: When a Swimming Time Sheet Becomes a Ticket to American CollegeOpening I remember a morning in September 2026, standing in the press row of...
The Underwater Contest: How the 15-Metre Limit and Subsurface Phases Rewrite Swimming RecordsRome, summer of 2026. The World Aquatics Championships closed with 43 world...
Baku 2026, One Week Out: The Beijing Ticket and Two Marks That Still Need VerificationOn the evening of September 24, 2026, the organisers of the Baku stop publish...
Peter Tonkin – A 55-Year Journey Concludes: From 2026 Olympian to Pioneer of Indigenous Swimming DevelopmentPeter Tonkin officially retired after 55 years in Australian swimming,...
Yumeki Kojima's 4:07.02 at the 2026 Asian Games: World Junior Record and the Upset Over MatsushitaIn the final 50 metres of the men's 400m individual medley final, Yumeki Koji...
Vietnamese Swimming and the Data Gap Nobody Wants to NameThe scoreboard flickers. One swimmer touches the wall, two lanes over are sti...
13-Year-Old Yu Zidi Swims 2:06.10 in the Women's 200 IM: Four Records and a Backstroke GapI clicked my hand-held stopwatch on the butterfly leg of lane 4 and knew...
21.71 Seconds in an Empty Lane: Kim Youngbeom and the New Breathing Rhythm of Asian Sprint SwimmingThat morning, the pool was as empty as a weekday church. There was only the...
Vietnamese Women's Swimming and the Load Problem: The Story That Never Reaches the ScoreboardThe water in the warm-up pool is so still that the coach's stopwatch sounds...
