Swimming is one of the great joys of summer, but for too many kids the water can turn deadly. Drowning is the second-leading cause of accidental deaths of children under the age of 15, according to ...

In an airy indoor pool with fish cutouts on the walls, a group of small children bobbed, floated and tentatively flutter-kicked.It was what it looked like, a starter swimming class. But here, ...

ST. LOUIS — At the O’Fallon Park YMCA, the practice pool of the OFPY Makos Swim Team is filled with young Black swimmers who are not only gliding through the water but defying racial disparities that ...