Your coaching data shouldn’t live in ten places
How bringing every datapoint into one connected core helps coaches make sharper decisions — and spend more time on deck.
Ask most swim coaches where their data lives and you’ll get a tour: a spreadsheet for training load, a folder of race videos, splits buried in an email, attendance in one app, wellness scores in another, the season plan on a whiteboard that gets wiped every Monday. None of it talks to each other. And the job of stitching it all together — late at night, before the next session — falls on the coach.
That’s not a data problem. It’s a connection problem. The information, or at least some of it, already exists. It’s just scattered, and scattered data is hard to coach from.
What changes when everything connects
Mako Swim was built around a simple idea: every stream of coaching data becomes more useful the moment it’s connected to the rest. Workout load lines up against wearables recovery. Race splits sit next to the technique you saw on film. Athlete feedback informs tomorrow’s set — and this season’s taper.
Instead of hunting for data and assembling the story yourself, the full picture of each swimmer is in front of you when it counts. The platform becomes the nucleus your coaching decisions run through.
MakoSwim is a first, the first of its kind because it brings everything into one platform without compromising the effectiveness of each separate tool. Each tool in MakoSwim is highly effective in each area, from the race analysis to its workout planning, season planning, and different metrics tracking. It’s absolutely incredible.
— Kevin Anderson, Head Coach, National Centre Ulster
From hours of admin to minutes of insight
The payoff shows up in three ways coaches feel immediately.
You see the whole athlete — training load, recovery, technique, and results in one view, instead of piecing it together across tools. You decide with context, not guesswork — when every source talks to each other, patterns surface early: who’s trending up, who’s overreaching, what’s actually working. And you get your time back — less wrangling files and tabs, more time on deck where it matters, with AI handling the admin.
That last one is the quiet game-changer. The hours that used to disappear into planning and organizing go back into coaching.
I was immediately very impressed, and when I had the first consultation regarding all of its features, it was. It was clear to me that this was maybe the first swimming platform that delivered everything that I felt we needed to monitor and track with athletes all in one place, and that’s something that I don’t think has been available before.
— Jon Rudd , High Performance Director, Saudi Arabia Olympic & Paralympic
Coaching is the hard part. The data shouldn’t be.
You didn’t get into coaching to manage spreadsheets. When your workouts, video, competition data, athlete feedback, wearables, and season plans all live in one connected core, the data stops being a chore and starts being an edge — clearer decisions, earlier, with less effort.
Scattered data in. Better coaching decisions out.
See how Mako Swim brings your coaching data together — start a free trial or book a demo.
