By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
2026 Pro Swim Series – Westmont
Wednesday, March 4 – Saturday, March 7, 2026 FMC Aquatic Center, Westmont, Illinois Long Course Meters (50 meters) Meet Central Psych Sheet Live Results: Also on Meet Mobile: “2026 TYR Pro Swim Series – Westmont” Live Stream Day 1 Finals Heat Sheet Live Recaps Prelims: Day 1 Finals: Day 1It almost feels redundant to post a whole separate editorial on the topic of night 1’s viewing experience at the Westmont Pro Swim Series.
That’s because, in spite of being a really good session by Pro Swim standards, anybody who wasn’t able to attend the meet wasn’t able to follow the meet in anything resembling real time. That means last night’s live recap conversation was almost entirely around the technical failures.
The live stream didn’t work. It never does when it’s in the USA Swimming app.
The live results didn’t work. The current systems seem to become somehow less reliable by the year.
Even USA Swimming’s data hub didn’t work, which probably only we noticed, but was just the cherry on top of a mess of a night for America’s “professional” swimming series.
At least they got the race videos up quickly on YouTube afterward. See them here.
That means nobody got to see Katie Ledecky vs. Summer McIntosh in the 800 free. Nobody got to see Isabelle Stadden’s head-turning 200 back. Nobody got to see Chris Guiliano’s follow-up to his electric 47.3 in prelims of the 100 free.
If you go to the live results page, you still can’t see those times, though Meet Mobile did, eventually, update – though even at its finest, Meet Mobile is a chore.
It is the year of our lord 2026, and we are genuinely still doing this?
I understand why USA Swimming wants its own app. They want the data, they want to be able to sell ads at a high value to their sponsors, they want to ‘own’ the meets and have control over where it’s used.
But it is 2026. This stuff isn’t even complicated anymore. There is a 12 year old somewhere who could use an AI tool like Claude to build a my functional system in an hour. There are tools available that my 75-year-old mother could use to stream the meets reliably.
There are NCAA D3 dual meets with infinitely better presentations than this. Age group meets. Youth hockey.
And all of this ignores the literal thousands of local production companies that could walk in and set this up for a relative discount.
The point is: this isn’t hard. There are a dozen solutions, from a teenager with an iPad and a YouTube Channel all the way up to a full, professional, veteran production. It just takes someone giving enough hoots to get it right.
USA Swimming’s new CEO Kevin Ring seems to get it. He understands that the sport is showing huge cracks. He wants to fix those cracks.
But among the most important and lowest-hanging fruits, the fact that this one hasn’t been picked, baked, and turned into a delicious pie will be perplexing.
So we’re left with a meet in an out-of-the-way place that makes it hard to attend in person, with an out-of-the-way app that makes it hard to stream, that didn’t work, and no results, for a professional swim meet where prize money is being awarded. China for darn sure isn’t going to have these issues when they pay the world’s best swimmers more money to go race there in a few months.
I guess it could be worse. USA Track & Field recently didn’t even attempt to live stream a national championship event (the combined events championship), missed streaming women’s shotput, and they charge $100 per year for access to their streaming platform (albeit with a lot more events).
But if “I guess it could be worse” is your standard, you’re in the wrong line of work.
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