Patrick Sammon, Hubert Kos, and Ilya Kharun Trying To Develop Swimming With A New Viewers: Twitch

Patrick Sammon, Hubert Kos, and Ilya Kharun have teamed up in hopes of rising the game of swimming with a unique viewers. The three have turned to the dwell streaming platform Twitch.

Sammon, Kos, and Kharun have been teammates at Arizona State collectively, earlier than Kos adopted Bob Bowman in summer season 2024 to Texas. All three swam on the 2025 World Championships with Sammon representing the US, Kos swam for Hungary, and Kharun represented Canada.

Sammon mentioned that the three initially acquired the concept from streamer Jynxzi. “We kind of started because we’ve already been playing together for out of so many years now and we’re just like I guess we’re kind of inspired from one of the creators called Jynxzi…we  thought it be kind of fun to showcase what we like to do outside the pool and maybe even make some sort of money through live streaming as well.”

The three are “trying to reach out or get like swimming noticed other than other like the main like swim, swim and use a swimming bike through those sites so we’re trying to kind of branch out and your audience,” Sammon mentioned. “That way people who aren’t really that well informed with the sport can kind of maybe get introduced that through us or and vice versa, like people who already know us to a sport can kind of see Our personal like it, I don’t know What’s it called? I just seen our lives outside swimming and see us out for more than just like summer so that makes sense”

Sammon mentioned that he has not obtained any funds from Twitch but however he is aware of Kos has obtained some fee from it. Kos has additionally had the very best variety of folks watching the livestream without delay, with viewership sometimes round 100-200 viewers at a time.

Although it has solely been occurring about two months, the group has gotten a whole lot of optimistic suggestions. Sammon mentioned that the folks have been “super supportive” and that the viewers has particularly loved when different swimmers be a part of the livestream.

Hubert Kos had Summer McIntosh on an hour livestream simply over a month in the past. Kos and McIntosh took questions from followers and McIntosh mentioned how she is taking one class, an accounting class, proper now. She additionally detailed when she determined to not do NCAA swimming in addition to answered a query on which World Record she thinks she will decrease essentially the most. She replied with the 200 IM.

Kos has additionally had a Q&A session with Josh Liendo and Jordan Crooks.

Kos spoke of his expertise to this point saying, “Its been very fun very new, I have built a small fan base on there with around 1000 followers right now. I feel like it has always been very important for me to make my fans happy in and out of the pool. So far, outside of the pool this has only included signing caps or shirts. But now I have a unique opportunity to engage with them online whilst playing games I already play. I have also started asking them to send in videos/clips of themselves swimming so that I can rate them and help them get better. I have also gotten a couple other swimmers on for Q&As so that my viewers can ask them questions they may not ever be able to ask them. If this interests anyone else they should go follow or subscribe to freshfysh on twitch! I would be happy to keep it growing.”

Arizona State’s Ilya Kharun spoke of his Twitch expertise to this point saying it has, “been really fun, especially engaging with viewers and giving advice to some that ask for it. It is a really fun platform to show your audience, who you are outside of swimming in a way, I do have my youtube channel that does that but being live is different in a way. But I would sum it up as a different kind of fun experience that really can promote and advertise swimming in a cool way.”

Between the three of them, they try to get a stream going someplace from 3-5 occasions every week. Kos already has over 1,200 subscribers to his channel, freshfysh. Sammon’s username is proxy_pat, and Kharun’s is AquaSavageVII_1.