Did you know that Ohio’s state song is Hang On Sloopy, best known as a hit for the McCoys in 1965? Me either, but this week in the State-Off Tournament we’ll see if seventh seed Ohio (7) can cough hang on against second seeded Texas (2).

This week in the High School Swimming State-Off Tournament we have the third seeded Sunshine State, Florida (3) taking on the sixth seeded Illinois (6) aka the Prairie State.

This week in the Swimming + Data Science High School Swimming State-Off Tournament we have the 1-8 match-up, my former home of California (1) vs. the Peach Tree State, Georgia (8)!

So it begins - the first match-up of the first round of the first ever Swimming + Data Science High School Swimming State-Off. If you missed the introductory post and are wondering what all this is about you can catch up here.

The spring and summer of 2020 were going to be exciting times here at Swimming + Data Science, with NCAA championships, Olympic trials, and then the big one, the Olympics, on the docket.

In a previous post we discussed the 2020 USMS ePostal results, and hypothesized that declines in average distances swum by older age groups are caused by higher proportions of weaker swimmers participating in older age groups, rather than age based declines.

Every year US Masters Swimming runs an event called the 1 Hour ePostal. Rules are simple - athletes swim as many lengths of a 25 yard (or longer) swimming pool as possible in one hour, during the month of February, and without the aid of equipment beyond a legal suit and goggles.

Brief summary Making a map of New York State by county Labeling areas of the map based on their centroid Answering this question: “Is there a section in New York State from which divers routinely underdive their qualifying scores at the state championships?