Skip to content

Enhancing Race Strategy with Data-Driven Insights

Upper-Dublin-Aquatic-Club-udacreddragons-•-Instagram-photos-and-videos-03-28-2025_12_24_PM

Industry

Competitive Swimming

Challenge

Upper Dublin Aquatics needed a way to translate swimmer effort into clear, actionable feedback to sharpen race strategy and training focus.

Results

With TritonWear, the coaching staff and swimmers began aligning race plans with data-backed performance insights, leading to smarter race execution, stronger athlete ownership, and more effective conversations on how to improve.

Process
More precise stroke count and DPS adjustments
Impact
Deeper understanding of pacing and race execution
Outcome
Results show measurable improvements in race times

We now have the tools to connect effort to execution. It’s made our conversations with swimmers more effective and our race strategies more precise.

Brandon Pierce

Head Coach at Upper Dublin Aquatic Club

From Guessing to Guiding

At Upper Dublin Aquatics, Coach Brandon Pierce wanted to take his swimmers beyond just “working hard.” He needed a way to help them understand how their habits in training translated into race results.

By using TritonWear, the team began building a bridge between what swimmers felt in the water and what the data showed. It allowed the coaching staff to guide athletes in making adjustments based on actual trends.

Bringing Race Plans to Life

One of the key outcomes of implementing TritonWear was improved clarity around race strategy.

  • Swimmers started using metrics like stroke count, DPS, and turn time to evaluate how well they executed their workouts

  • Coaches used data visualizations to support post-race debriefs, reinforcing what went well and where changes were needed

  • The team integrated TritonWear into athlete conversations to help them take ownership of their performance

"We’ve had more productive conversations around what needs to change. It’s not just coach-to-swimmer—it’s swimmer seeing the data and starting the discussion."

According to Coach Brandon Pierce, 'We are a lot about stroke counts and distance per strokes. Having real-time data has allowed us to verify if we are actually executing negative splits and make precise adjustments.'

A Smarter Team, Built on Understanding

Coach Pierce noticed a shift in training: his swimmers were no longer passive recipients of feedback. They were starting to analyze, ask questions, and connect the dots between training and results.

  • They asked: “Did I hold my Stroke Rate?”

  • They reviewed: “Where did my speed drop?”

  • And most importantly, they trained with more intention

🤓 See how teams like Upper Dublin Aquatics use TritonWear to connect training data with race execution and empower swimmers to own their performance.

Build Better Race Strategies