A fat boy stands in the hot water of a high school shower. He is afraid he will be found there, on an autumn Saturday, hiding away from the cold chlorinated mists of the swimming pool. When something ...

As a red sun rises at 6:45 a.m. on a recent Thursday morning, the North Shore pool becomes a fountain of youth for the St. Petersburg Masters swim team. This group, whose average age is 40, represents ...

All those freshmen swimming recruits, men and women, plus the returning varsity teams at Towson State University are in for what literally will be a dry run. The school has abandoned the sport. It was ...

An ”inspirational” thought pinned to the bulletin board in the new Homewood-Flossmoor High School Natatorium: ”I swim until I hurt. I swim until I`m in pain. I swim until I`m in agony. When I`m in ...

PHOENIX, Arizona, June 5. IN the latest Olympic Flashback by Jeff Commings with a special contribution by Steve Johnson, Swimming World looks back at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games. East ...

In its effort to create national age-group, collegiate and even Olympic-level competitors, the Delaware Swim Team now has a coach who was one himself. Nelson Diebel, whose 1992 gold medal in the 100 ...

At least in this case, Mark Sullivan doesn’t mind admitting that he was wrong. The 1991-1992 season was Sullivan’s fourth as Sycamore’s swim coach, and he was looking at it as the one to get his ...

With the coming of spring and warm weather, our thoughts turn to another season of basking in the radiant sunshine and swimming in any of the dozen or so pools in the area. Growing up in Easton’s West ...

FORT LAUDERDALE — From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, swimmers at the International Swimming Hall of Fame will be doing charity laps to benefit a nationwide project to teach children to swim.

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