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 ...

If you’ve been watching the Olympics, you may have noticed that synchronized swimming has a new name. In July 2017, the International Swimming Federation, or FINA, announced that the sport would be ...

When Mary Black started synchronised swimming almost 90 years ago it was a world away the sport of today. There were no acrobatics, no sequined costumes and no music. It wasn't even a recognised sport ...

In “Swimming Pretty,” Vicki Valosik connects the evolution of an unlikely sport with the century-long struggle of women to be taken seriously in the water. By Jennifer Schuessler Jennifer Schuessler ...

Joy Cushman, International Swimming Hall of Fame honoree, died on Wednesday. She was 98. She was a member of United States Synchronized Swimming, and represented the group on the United States Olympic ...

The sport, formerly known as synchronized swimming, has a new name as well as more muscular athletes and more risky tricks. At a minimum, it demands endurance, power, leonine grace, hair gelatin, ...

Synchro Stingrays, an open water synchronised swimming troupe who perform across the three counties have secured a new ...

FUKUOKA, Japan (AP) — Snicker if you wish. Guffaw for good measure. Bill May and other male synchronized swimmers — now called artistic swimmers — have heard the putdowns before. But they’re getting ...

Mary Black joined Clydebank Ladies Amateur Swimming Club in 1939 When Mary Black started synchronised swimming almost 90 years ago it was a world away the sport of today. There were no acrobatics, no ...