Courtesy of WOWSA, San Diego, California. The men’s collegiate water polo season in the United States will begin next week. The teams are all going through their ardouous Hell Weeks, training hard twice per day. The Tritons of the University of California San Diego incorporate a lot of running and dryland training in the soft […]

Courtesy of New York Open Water, Manhattan Island, New York. 20 Bridges Manhattan Island Swim is held multiple times in 2017, giving opportunities for as many swimmers as possible to swim 45.8 km (28.5 miles) around Manhattan Island in New York City. The August 20th edition of 20 Bridges was the fourth of five editions

Courtesy of New York Open Water, Manhattan Island, New York. Kevin Cassidy and Ian Down both successfully completed the August 19th edition of the 20 Bridges Manhattan Island Swim and added their names to the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. Joy was all around the Mill Rock finish line, from the newest Triple Crowners

Courtesy of Miguel Vadillo, Lake Erie, Great Lakes. Joshua Reid and Miguel Vadillo long planned and organized the inaugural 20 km Embrace the Challenge, a 20 km cross border swim across Lake Erie between Canada and the USA. The race was originally scheduled for Saturday, August 19th, starting on the eastern Lake Erie from Sturgeon

Photos courtesy of Annie-Claude Roberge, Strait of Gibraltar, Spain to Morocco. Rohan More has always lived his dreams. As a child, he dreamed of completing a crossing of the English Channel. His first major swim was a 35 swim from Dharamtar to the Gateway of India in 7 hours 29 minutes at the raw age

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Alexander Studzinski has experienced problems with his shoulders for a decade. His first shoulder surgery occurred in 2008, but he continued to compete on the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix circuit for years. His latest shoulder problems began again in April 2015 as he was forced to cut

Courtesy of Jef Mallet, Frazz. Jef Mallett is arguably the best known open water swimmer with the greatest media reach in America. Although he is best known for his comic Frazz that appears in 200 newspapers worldwide, he is an enthusiastic, emerging marathon swimmer who did not finish the 2015 Boston Light Swim, but then

Courtesy of Scott Zornig, Santa Catalina Island, California. There are only 9 spots left for Swim Camp Catalina IV on Santa Catalina Island in Southern California between November 9th to 12th. Camp director Scott Zornig explains, “The price is US$395 until August 31st and increases to US$475 on September 1st. We are also now accepting

Courtesy of Oceanic Society, Farallon Islands, California. In the March 1917 to February 1918 edition of Mind And Body, A Monthly Journal Devoted to Physical Education (Volume XXIV), a young 18-year-old nurse named Hazel Cunningham was touted as an outstanding San Francisco Bay area swimmer. Her nickname was Neptune’s Daughter according to the Pacific Coast

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Father Martyn Southall and son Reece Southall are all set to go mano-a-mano against the best ocean swimmers in the Pacific Ocean at the annual Waikiki Roughwater Swim in Honolulu, Hawaii. 17-year-old surf lifesaving Reece is coached by Brendan Capell, the 2004 FINA 25 km world champion) and has