Patrick Sammon, Hubert Kos, and Ilya Kharun Looking To Grow Swimming With A New Audience

Patrick Sammon, Hubert Kos , and Ilya Kharun have teamed up in hopes of growing the sport of swimming with a different audience. The three have turned to the live streaming platform Twitch. Sammon, Kos, and Kharun were teammates at Arizona State together, before Kos followed Bob Bowman in summer 2024 to Texas. All three swam at the 2025 World Championships with Sammon representing the US, Kos swam for Hungary, and Kharun represented Canada. Sammon said that the three originally got the idea 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 said. “That way people who aren’t really that well informed
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