The Time Has Come For The US To Join The Rest Of The World And Race Meters
Collegiate track and field used to compete in yards and have successfully transitioned to meters. We can too. If not now, then when?
SwimSwam Pulse: 68% Pick Stanford To Win Women’s Pac-12
More than two-thirds of voters are picking Stanford to win the women’s Pac-12 title for the fourth-straight year, compared to about 27% for Cal.
Mathematically Speaking: How Do Smith/Finke Records Compare To Dressel?
American records by Robert Finke (1650 free) and Kieran Smith (500 free) were earth-shattering – but were they as historic as Caeleb Dressel’s 50/100 frees?
How Bobby Finke’s 14:12 Made Me Feel
Finke’s swim feels approachable in a way that other races do not. And that’s what made it one of the most beautiful races I’ve seen in a long time.
SwimSwam Pulse: 55% Pick Michigan To Win Men’s Big Tens
After a whopping 72% picked the Michigan women to win Big Tens, another majority (55.2%) of voters picked the Wolverine men to win their conference meet.
SwimSwam Voters Picks: Week 1 of Major 2020 NCAA Conference Championships
We compile predictions for week 1 of conference swimming action: voter picks from our polls, Swimulator projections, and our official SwimSwam picks.
SwimSwam Pulse: 77% Pick NC State Men To Win ACC Title
It’s a blowout in our men’s ACC Champions poll: 77.3% of voters picked the NC State Wolfpack to win a sixth consecutive conference title.
SwimSwam Pulse: 72% Pick Michigan To Win Big Ten Women’s Title
71.9% of voters picked Michigan to win the women’s Big Ten swimming & diving title, a huge landslide of votes over defending champs Indiana.
SwimSwam Pulse: 66% Pick UVA To Win Women’s ACCs, 23% Pick NC State
Our latest poll: two-thirds of voters picked the Virginia Cavaliers to knock off NC State for this year’s ACC Women’s title.
Opinion: Current-Chasing Is The Rules Violation No One Is Talking About
Swim fans are a rule-enforcing bunch. For evidence of that look at the comment section of the following topics: doping, para-swimming, breaststroke pullouts.
SwimSwam Pulse: 47% Pick Florida Men To Win SEC Title Despite Swimulator Odds
Swimulator projections have Texas A&M winning the men’s SEC title with a 230-point margin over Florida, but voters strongly favored the Gators in our poll.
SwimSwam Pulse: 45% Pick Tennessee For 1st Ever Women’s SEC Title
In our poll of top contenders, 45.8% picked Tennessee to win women’s SECs in what would be the first SEC title in program history.
Sprint Guru Brett Hawke Shares Opinions on How to Break World Records
Brett Hawke, who has coached multiple American, U.S. Open, and World Record breakers in the sprints, has an opinion that matters in the sprint freestyles.
SwimSwam’s Top 3 (Wildly Speculative) Candidates for USC Head Coaching Job
Ray Looze has a good thing going at Indiana, but is the allure of the head coaching job at his alma mater USC enough to pull him away from Bloomington?
SwimSwam Pulse: 50% Say Breaststroke Is Most Different From SC to LC
More than half of voters said breaststroke changed the most between long and short course, with butterfly a distant second.
