The Dominance Series Sponsored by SwimSpray, a SwimSwam partner.
Without a doubt there were some incredible swims at the Women’s Div. 1 NCAA meet last week. Congratulations to all the athletes who qualified and competed in arguably one of the fastest short-course meets in the world.
Each year the bar is raised as faster times are posted. It is truly an incredible time to be a swim fan.
As fans, in reviewing competitions, we have found it fascinating to view each meet through the perspective of ultimate domination. Call it an academic approach to excellence, or just simply a way to “geek out” over measuring greatness against greatness…but our new formula for measuring dominance in a race and in a competition reveals by the numbers what can be labeled as “The most dominant race of a competition.” Period.
So the numbers have been crunched, and out of all the events at the Women’s Division 1 NCAA competition, one event stood out as the most dominating–a full 2 percentage points greater than the next closest competitor. Kelsi Worrell‘s 100 fly victory scored a 2.39 in dominance percentage points. Her swim had the largest margin of victory over the next competitor in the race, as well as out of all the other races swum at the meet.
For comparison, the next most dominant race was Ella Eastin’s 400IM victory–with a margin of 2.19 in dominance points.
Congrats to the Dominator Kelsi Worrell!
