Swimming
Spink Breaks 46 Seconds in Yards: An NCAA Peak and an Unconverted Gap
Minkyu Noh flips commitment from Texas to Arizona: a four-stroke profile and the Big 12 equation
Vietnam's Swimming Data Gap: When 'No Reported Injuries' Becomes 'No Injuries'
When a Women's Race Has No Splits, the Scoreboard Tells Half the Story
Spink Breaks 46 Seconds in Yards: An NCAA Peak and an Unconverted GapThe clock in lane 4 stopped at 20.95. It was the opening leg of the 4x50-yard...
The Empty Split Sheet and the Limits of a Swimming Data ReaderTuesday morning in Saigon, and the rain has been falling since six. A swimmin...
Minkyu Noh flips commitment from Texas to Arizona: a four-stroke profile and the Big 12 equationMinkyu Noh, a swimmer from Seoul, South Korea, has flipped his college...
Angelina Lista Flips from LSU to Missouri: The Yard-Sheet, the Metre Gap, and How a Swimming Scholarship Gets RepricedA Gap of 1.3 Seconds There is a detail in the Angelina Lista story that slips...
Vietnam's Swimming Data Gap: When 'No Reported Injuries' Becomes 'No Injuries'Hanoi, 6:40 a.m. From the stands of the pool, a coach tells me his squad had ...
When a Women's Race Has No Splits, the Scoreboard Tells Half the StoryThe final night at a university pool: the scoreboard flips, the stands rise,...
Michigan Lands Treyvn Krauss: Reading a Distance Profile Through ProbabilityAt Mel Zajac, a summer meet with almost no reason for a Vietnamese audience t...
An Empty Swimming Dossier and the Hardest Test in Sports Data AnalysisThe dossier opened at 11:40 pm. Nine data fields, eight of them blank. The on...
2:02.63 and the Pacing Lesson: Yu Yiting Unlocks the Deep Map of Asian Women's 200m IMLast week, Yu Yiting swam 2:03.34. She went out a full second faster than her...
Where Are the Women in Vietnamese Swimming Data?I spent four hours trying to track down the split times of a Vietnamese femal...
Steenbergen Breaks European 200m Freestyle Short-Course Record: 0.10 Seconds and a Reordering of the PodiumAt the Astana pool, when Marrit Steenbergen touched the wall in the women's...
Vietnamese Swimming and the Empty Dataset: The Line Between Analysis and FabricationAt 9:14 a.m. on August 13, 2026, I open the swimming data file in my working...
William Canori and Stanford's First Commitment: When a Quiet Line Says Everything About a SystemThe day Stanford announced its first verbal commitment for the class of 2028,...
When the Swimming Data Sheet Is Empty: The Value of an Honest ConclusionThat night I opened the data file and found it empty. No athlete's name, no...
Reading the Lane: Nine Layers of Analysis and the No-Fabrication PrincipleThere was a morning at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre when I stayed...
World Swimming After Paris 2026: The Power Map and the Data Zones No One MeasuresOn August 4, 2026, at the La Défense arena in Paris, China's men's 4x100m...