Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In very exciting news, the International University Sports Federation (FISU) announced the addition of a 10K open water swimming event to its Summer Universiades competitions. The first 10K swim will be held at the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China. Bill Wadley, Men’s Swimming Coach at Ohio State University, […]

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2010 US Masters Swimming 6K Open Water National Championships will be held in Lake Water Valley in Windsor, Colorado on June 19th. Hosted by the Air Force Aquatics Masters, the masters swimmers will compete over a four-loop 1.5 km course in Lake Water Valley, located 60 miles north

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Karen Rogers swim from the Farallon Islands to Aquatic Park will be filmed by Roger Teich and Elizabeth Pepin Silva. Teich previously filmed an equally courageous Ron Elliott who is the only sea urchin diver who works off the Farallon Islands where he shares the ocean with the Great

We will be in contact with Penny Palfrey‘s team as she attempts what is touted as one of the most incredible open water swims in history, an incredible 72-mile swim between the islands of Oahu and Kauai in Hawaii in late April. People around the world will be pulling for Penny as she is escorted

Karen Rogers, undoubtedly one of the most courageous adventurers in the world today, will attempt to the first person to swim from the rugged Farallons to Aquatic Park in San Francisco. Her trailblazing effort comes 43 years after Stuart Evans and Ted Erikson made the first and only crossings from the Farallons in 1967 Her

Harvard University senior Alex Meyer of Ithaca, New York won three events at the Ivy League Swimming Championships and was named Swimmer of the Meet. Alex will prepare for the upcoming NCAA Swimming Championships as well as the 2010 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships in Long Beach, California where he will be one

Reports in from the Cook Strait that the channel swimming season got off to a roaring start in 2010 with three successful swims in Cook Strait over the last 48 hours. Michelle Macy and Steve Junk plowed through rough seas to finish in slightly over 8 hours. With the incomparable Philip Rush at the helm

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sometimes you just walk into a location or venue and know are you are in the right spot. Like an actor with that special charisma or that piece of artwork with that special “it”, when you see it, you know that you have entered somewhere extraordinary. Tennis has it

Penny Palfrey gave some additional insight into her 72-mile swim across the Kaieiewaho Channel between the islands of Oahu and Kauai. “My escort boat pilot is Captain Don Jones who lives on Kauai. He runs a charter fishing boat, the June Louise, and will be in touch with the local fishermen to get as much

Reports from Michelle Macy that she was given the go-ahead from Philip Rush to begin her Cook Strait swim on Monday. Although confident from her training and based off of her 2009 English Channel success of 11:37, as she – and every marathon swimmer – knows and prepares for…she will expect the unexpected. “In the