Swimming is more than just staring at a black line on the bottom of the pool. While that is a good part of what we do, there’s a lot more fun that happens as well. As popular challenges and trends ...

Over the past few years there has been an explosion of social media trends in the swimming community. Swimmers of all ages flock to Instagram, Facebook or Twitter to post videos of themselves ...

If your awareness of the Erie Canal stops at the folk song you learned in grade school, then you, too, will be surprised to know this: The canal is not a poker-straight channel. No. It meanders ...

Have you been taking some dips in the pool for this month’s swimming challenge? If not, maybe it’s because you haven’t quite figured out where to start. First, even if you don’t know how to swim at ...

When you think of water, you think of fun in the pool and in the lake. But the American Red Cross and the Boys & Girls Clubs ...

If you need to catch up on your swimming because you have been away from pool access or you have progressed to a level where you want to challenge yourself with a 5,000-meter swim workout, here is a ...

CASCADE LOCKS, Ore. — Early Labor Day morning, Lynn Rasmussen and her group — The Faux Fur-sters — shed their warm, namesake coats to reveal wetsuits. They approached the open door of Columbia Gorge ...

The Belkin family has a pool in the backyard of their Westerleigh home, but they choose to spend their summer days at the Hillside Swim Club in Travis. "We'd rather come here," confided Susan Belkin ...

Kyle Ploehn, an amputee, calls the rest of the competitors he is swimming against, the 'ABs' ― the able-bodied swimmers. Those 'ABs' call Kyle Ploehn an inspiration. While a large group of competitors ...