When I was a small child, my mother often brought me along when she taught physical education at a small women’s college, run by nuns who were happy to have a young married woman to handle fencing ...

Chris Carver is a ground-breaking synchronized swimming choreographer and club coach of the world renowned Santa Clara Aquamaids and joins the International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) as an Honor ...

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 ...

The Roosevelt Sharks, the nation's longest-running synchronized swimming club, is celebrating 99 years of aquatic artistry.

It turns out that synchronized swimming -- often lumped with cheerleading, ballroom dancing and other activities as hobbies rather than sports -- is a lot harder than it looks. It takes flexibility, ...

Kristina Makushenko, a retired four-time world champion in synchronized swimming, performed Rachael Gunn’s viral breakdance routine from the 2024 Paris Olympics — while under water and wearing high ...

That performance always takes place on the eighth day of August in honor of movie star Esther Williams, the icon who helped to bring the art and athleticism of balletic swimming to silver screens, and ...

The Cypress Swim Club put on an exhibition of dominance at the Seaside Synchronized/Artistic Swimming Invitational at Pattullo Swim Center in Seaside. The club won eight events, bringing home 28 top ...

In the early 20th century, most Western women still bound their cores in corsets. Not so with Annette Kellerman, the record-setting Australian swimmer who told a crowd of New York City socialites in ...

The Paris Olympics stoked fervor for sports that aren’t always familiar. If you watched the games and thought you might want to try pommel horse, breaking, or synchronized swimming, here’s how you can ...