When I was a small child, my mother often brought me along when she taught physical education at a small women’s college, run by nuns who were happy to have a young married woman to handle fencing ...

In “Swimming Pretty,” Vicki Valosik connects the evolution of an unlikely sport with the century-long struggle of women to be taken seriously in the water. By Jennifer Schuessler Jennifer Schuessler ...

What does it take to be a U.S. Olympic artistic swimmer? At a minimum, it demands endurance, power, leonine grace, hair gelatin, dance lessons, mastery of the eggbeater, flamingo, scull and rocket ...

Set to music from Kanye West, Fall Out Boy and even a Charlie’s Angels medley, a dozen swimmers weave throughout a Cooke Hall pool while incorporating spins, intricate leg kicks and lifts that see ...

A “barracuda” is a synchronized swimming maneuver in which a swimmer thrusts her hands over her head, while upside down, to propel her body straight out of the water, pointed toes first. It’s one of ...

The nation’s longest running synchronized swim club is at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines. The nation’s longest running synchronized swim club is at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines. Dive under ...

TOWN OF TONAWANDA N.Y. (WKBW) — The town of Tonawanda aquatics center is where a unique event brought swimmers from all over the world to Western New York. The Aquettes hosted a synchronized swimming ...