Swimming doesn’t have to be a sport that ends after the club or college days. Thanks to its low-impact nature and wide-ranging health benefits, it’s one of the few sports that can be enjoyed well into ...

A Redding art teacher recently accomplished a feat only a few hundred other elite athletes ever achieve. Long-distance swimmer Lura Wilhelm, 43, swam the entire 28.5-mile circumference of Manhattan ...

Juneau’s Open Water Swim Series continues to be a hit among local swimmers looking for a few more strokes outside their normal pool routines. On Saturday, roughly 15 hearty souls entered the third ...

Donner Swim Club’s, from left, Eli McIntier, Mridula Muthukumaran, Abby Proffitt and Cora Tregoning competed in the Indiana Swimming Open Water State Meet in Fishers. Submitted photo Donner Swim Club ...

SAN FRANCISCO, California (KPIX) — A Berkeley teen is swimming her way into the history books. Maya Merhige is the youngest person to swim the Catalina Channel, which was one third of her completion ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- On a rainy Sunday morning in Lake Michigan, hundreds of eager and already wet swimmers hit the water for an amazing cause. Sunday marked the first plunge of the relocated Chicago ...

At the break of dawn, a group of swimmers step into a quiet lake, scanning the open horizon. There are no lane lines, no black lines on the bottom of the pool. Simply the water, wind, and the unknown.

Before hundreds of swimmers are set to jump into the Chicago River in September, organizers and advocates say they are taking a “victory lap” of their own. To address safety, organizers said they will ...

Meet our tester You may have noticed that we only have one sole tester reviewing all of these swim goggles and her name pops up a lot when it comes to swim gear, that’s because our editor Helen ...