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 ...

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, ...

From NPR News, this is WEEKEND EDITION. I'm Ari Shapiro. As part of NPR's series on American athletes preparing for the Summer Olympics, we're going to take a look at synchronized swimming. This sport ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES Founded in 2008, the Aqualillies are a mix of old and new /*Hollywood*/. They are synchronized swimmers and dancers, using Southern California pools as their stage. "What inspires me is a ...