Training to be Champions: Swimming at the Helm - A Statistical Overview

The purpose of this article is to provide data evaluation of swimmer event times improvement in the high school competition games. Specifically, the study investigated United High School’s swim team in Laredo, Texas who had a successful 2021-2022 swim season. Twenty-eight swimmers competed in 8 pre-district meets and at the 2022 University Interscholastic League (UIL) District 29-6A swimming and diving championship meet altogether. Following the district meet, seventeen swimmers qualified in individual events and in relays to compete at the UIL Region 8 swimming and diving Championship Meet. Eight swimmers represented United High School at the UIL swimming and diving State Meet in Austin, Texas held on February 18, 2022. For this study, the authors and the Department of Mathematics and Physics at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU) used the SAS statistical software available to analyze the data collected for the 2021-2022 season. The goal of the study is to show a time improvement for each swimmer from the pre-district meets to the championship meets. As a result, the data showed a time improvement throughout the season including at the championship meets.

Keywords:Swimming; United High School swim team; District competition; Regional competition; State competition