With the 2021 International Swimming League (ISL) playoffs set to commence on Thursday, we’ve taken a look back at the league’s first-ever draft that was held over the summer—and how the early results are looking for each of the 10 ISL clubs through the regular season.
As it turned out, the top rookie scorer from the season went undrafted: The LA Current’s Ingrid Wilm, who was a prudent free-agent signing for the club, had an unbelievable breakthrough performance, winning six individual races over the season and averaging 42.1 points-per-match.
The #2 scorer (based on points-per-match) was Toronto Titan teen Summer McIntosh, who was an 11th round, 92nd overall pick by the Titans during the draft.
The top scorer among a top-10 draft pick was Iron’s Barbora Seemanova, who was selected sixth overall in the opening rookie round of the draft and went on to average more than 35 points per match.
In addition to being the top first-timers, Wilm, McIntosh and Seemanova also ranked 1-2-3 among unretained swimmers, meaning the athletes that were available for selection during the ISL Draft after teams finished picking who they would protect.
Thank you to SwimSwam’s Barry Revzin for compiling the data.
Top Unretained Scorers
Rank
Name
Club
Points-Per-Match
1
Ingrid Wilm
LAC
42.1
2
Summer McIntosh
TOR
35.5
3
Barbora Seemanova
IRO
35.4
4
Kasia Wasick
TOR
31.6
5
Marius Kusch
TOR
30.6
6
Holly Barratt
AQC
29.8
7
Vini Lanza
LON
28.0
8
Evgeniia Chikunova
ENS
26.8
9
Maria Kameneva
AQC
26.6
10
Andreas Vazaios
DCT
26.4
11
Yui Ohashi
TOK
25.3
12
Ali DeLoof
DCT
25.1
13
Paige Madden
TOK
24.0
14
Matt Temple
NYB
23.2
15
Fabian Schwingenschlogl
TOR
22.6
16
Sherridon Dressel
CAC
22.6
17
Katsumi Nakamura
LON
22.5
18
Aleksandr Shchegolev
DCT
21.9
19
Dylan Carter
LON
21.2
20
Katie Shanahan
LON
20.8
We find a wide range of results when looking at how the top-10 rookies selected in the draft fared throughout the season.
Top selection Arno Kamminga averaged 15.6 points-per-match, ranking 34th among unretained swimmers, while #2 pick Ryan Hoffer averaged 12.7 for 34th.
Top 10 Rookie Picks
Selection
Name
Club
Points-Per-Match
Rank Among Unretained
1
Arno Kamminga
AQC
15.6
34th
2
Ryan Hoffer
DCT
12.7
57th
3
Matt Temple
NYB
23.2
14th
4
Kasia Wasick
TOR
31.6
4th
5
Paige Madden
TOK
24.0
13th
6
Barbora Seemanova
IRO
35.4
3rd
7
Martin Malyutin
LAC
20.4
21st
8
Kenzo Simons
LON
1.5
153rd
9
Evgeniia Chikunova
ENS
26.8
8th
10
Maaike De Waard
CAC
11.7
68th
Overall, the DC Trident had the best offseason based on points added. The team drafted 163.8 points and added an additional 60.6 from free agency for a total of 224.4 added points.
Despite failing to qualify for the playoffs, Tokyo was a close second with 223.8 points added, followed by Toronto with 214.6.
The New York Breakers, who finished fourth in four straight matches before narrowly placing third over Tokyo in the Play-In, had the worst offseason by points added with 127.1.
Team
Retained
Drafted
Undrafted
Added
Total
DCT
192.9
163.8
60.6
224.4
416.8
TOK
177.7
96.5
127.3
223.8
401.5
TOR
297.9
178.9
35.7
214.6
512.5
AQC
274.3
136.5
42.6
179.1
453.4
IRO
271.5
120.8
57.2
178.0
449.5
LAC
267.2
87
89.2
176.2
443.4
LON
329.4
135.6
39.4
175.0
504.4
CAC
507.3
97.3
45.5
142.8
650.1
ENS
471.1
91.3
48.9
140.2
611.3
NYB
183.4
64.5
62.6
127.1
310.5
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