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 ...
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, 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, ...
Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...
THE NATION’S LONGEST RUNNING SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING CLUB IS TURNING 99. THE SHARKS OF ROOSEVELT HIGH IN DES MOINES STARTED UP IN 1926. IT WAS THE FIRST CLUB THAT GIRLS AT THE SCHOOL COULD JOIN. TONIGHT ...
When the United States won silver in team artistic swimming Aug. 7 in Paris for just its third Olympic medal, it was cause for celebration in the synchronized swimming community. It was also an ...
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, ...