Overview
Jeroen Lecoutere is the founder of Swimtraxx, which he started in January 2018, and is based in Leuven. Since 2025 he has also been associate head coach at Leuven Aquatics, a club where he had earlier served as director from 2010 to 2023. Between 2023 and 2025 he was head swim coach at LERC.
Before founding Swimtraxx he was a senior associate at Boston Consulting Group from 2017 to 2018. From 2011 to 2016 he was a PhD researcher and teaching assistant at KU Leuven, spending part of 2015 as a visiting researcher at Griffith University. He competed as an athlete for Team Belgium in the summer of 2013 and again in mid-2022.
Lecoutere studied at Heilig-Hartinstituut Heverlee, then spent his freshman year in aerospace engineering at The Ohio State University. He completed a bachelor's degree in engineering at KU Leuven in 2009, a master's in biomedical engineering in 2011 and a doctorate in electrical engineering in 2016, having taken a summer internship there in 2010.
Career history
In the news
- Dear swim coaches, quit the spreadsheets! Swimtraxx Hub is a free app that allows you to track athlete attendance in an amazingly easy interface.
- We are on a mission to make the craft of swim coaching easier and more sustainable. Automating tasks that don't add value to you or your swimmers is what we do for a living. Just so you can focus on the real deal. Check out our free workout timer. (link in first comment)
- Dear swim coaches, an easy to use workout builder that analyses what you write in real time is finally here! It's 100% FREE and allows you to write, edit, share and review workouts at your desk, on the go or on the pool deck! Give it a try through the link in the first comment.
- Dear swim coaches, with the swimming season wrapping up, it's time to look forward to the next one. If you are looking for an easy tool to build, edit, review, ... your season plan, definitely give Swimtraxx Hub a try. It's FREE and SUPER easy to use at your desk or on the go, which isn't the case for other tools or your self-made excel sheet. We have been building this for quite some time and are really proud to share this with you all! Looking forward to your feedback! -> swimtraxx.com/app
- The last women's supersuit World Record was broken by Summer McIntosh! She broke Liu Zige's previous mark in the 200m butterfly in a time of 2:01.65 The new oldest women's WR is Sarah Sjöström's long course 50m butterfly. If you want to play around with these stats, have a look at Swimtraxx Insights. Link in first comment.
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