Courtesy of Bailey Photo and Phil White, Lake Memphremagog, Vermont. After winning two freestyle events, Craig Ross also won the 25m butterfly sprint at the 2018 Memphremagog Winter Swim Festival this past weekend in Vermont’s Lake_Memphremagog. Daina Bouquin won her second event in the 25m butterfly after winning the 100m freestyle. 25m Butterfly Female Results: […]

Courtesy of Bailey Photo and Phil White, Lake Memphremagog, Vermont. Martha Wood, a Harvard-educated water polo player-turned-winter swimmer, dominated the freestyle races at the 2018 Memphremagog Winter Swim Festival at Vermont’s Lake Memphremagog. The 55-year-old American from New Hampshire won the 25, 50m and 200m freestyle and placed second in the 100m freestyle. The event

Courtesy of SWIMERA, Tallinn, Estonia. One of the world’s most renown ice swimmers is Henri Kaarma of Estonia. The mild-mannered, seriously-minded athlete has been on top of his ice swimming game for years and was selected as the 2014 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year. Not only has the banker known as The

Courtesy of Swimming World Magazine. Mark Weber, Van Donkersgoed, Natalie Coughlin Hall, Anthony Ervin, Aaron Peirsol, Davis Tarwater, Derek Paul, and 2005 world 10 km champion Chip Peterson, issued the following letter as athlete representatives regarding the recent media coverage of the sexual abuse issues faced by USA Swimming: USA Swimming Board of Directors Athlete

Courtesy of WOWSA, Tampa Bay Frogman Swim, Florida. Extreme sports seems to have more definitions and shades of meaning than simple words like ‘good’ or ‘cool’. When most people think of extreme sports, they generally think of ultra marathon running, triathlons, rowing across the Atlantic or cycling or cross-country skiing for very long distances. Climbing

Courtesy of Amanyara, Turks & Caicos. We were asked to visit this AMAN resort in Amanyara, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos in the Caribbean Sea. Water, water, everywhere. How lovely can this visit be? The word “aman” means “peace, security, safety, shelter, protection” in the Sanskrit, Hindi, Punjabi, Arabic, Urdu and Persian languages. Copyright © 2008-2018

Image show Africans swimming freestyle across rapids during the 1884 Nile Expedition. Courtesy of Illustrated London News, 4 October 1884. In his essay about African swimmers in ‘Enslaved Swimmers and Divers in the Atlantic World’ included in the March 2006 issue of The Journal of American History, Professor Kevin Dawson wrote, “…Having learned to swim

Courtesy of Deadspin, University of Southern California. 2012 Olympic 10K marathon swimming silver medalist Haley Anderson was named on the Athletes Advisory Commission for the Los Angeles bid for the 2024 and 2028 Olympic Games in May 2017. So she will retain her Olympic ties at least to the 2028 Summer Olympics, and possibly beyond.