Like many children from nonwhite households (I’m half-Japanese, half-Polish), learning to swim was simply not a priority. The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed paper ...

The calendar may have flipped to autumn, but I’m still clinging to my summer’s crowning achievement: At the tender age of 37, I finally learned how to swim freestyle. Which raises the question: What ...

You’re never too old to learn how to swim. The oldest person Pamela Lawnicki Green taught how to swim was in their 70s. You can be any age to learn, said Letaya Robinson, 44, who is taking lessons ...

It's a scorching hot Melbourne summer's day when the question I'm dreading arises. "Should we go to the beach?" The thing is, I can't swim. People often take this to mean I'm not very good at it. But ...

Vivan Fahr hadn’t been in a swimming pool since 1960. So it was about time for her to get wet. The 89-year-old Upper Mount Bethel Township woman is the oldest person to enroll at Aquatics Academy as a ...

The key swimming milestones all children should reach by age 10 – and why being able to doggy paddle isn't enough, ...

Soaking wet and smiling as they stood poolside at the Walter Graham Aquatic Center in Vacaville, mother and daughter Maria Alvarez and Sue Ortiz shared more than just their participation in the Adult ...

Manly Olympian Frank O’Neill, The First Australian To Break 60 seconds for 110 Yards and who taught Greta Garbo How To Swim, Dies Age 97 One of Australia’s oldest surviving Olympians and Commonwealth ...

Sonoma Splash will offer swim lessons to all Sassarini second grade students in April as part of a pilot program. In a preliminary effort to assure that all students in Sonoma Valley learn how to swim ...