SEATTLE — The first independent swim team for athletes with physical disabilities in the U.S. began right here in Washington state, and it's still the only one of its kind in the Seattle area and the ...
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 ...
ASTON —Kara Damico was in third grade when she was told sports couldn’t be for her. The advice came from doctors who diagnosed her with Ehlers-Danlos syndromes, a rare class of bone and joint ...
If you, a die hard Olympics nerd [enthusiastically thrusts hand into air], have been feverishly sifting through your TV guide in search of synchronized swimming these past few weeks with no success, ...
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — The whole reason Dave Kuhn became a physical therapist traces back to his love for the Olympics. As a young man, he wanted to get into sports medicine and decided to take an ...
ST. LOUIS — At the O’Fallon Park YMCA, the practice pool of the OFPY Makos Swim Team is filled with young Black swimmers who are not only gliding through the water but defying racial disparities that ...