DES MOINES, Iowa — The nation’s longest-running synchronized swim club is preparing to make a historic splash as it ...

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 Lake County YMCA does a lot more than give the community a clean and safe place to simply swim a few laps. Above or below water, there is an elite aquatics show going on, and the Central YMCA’s ...

In a story in this week’s magazine, available to TIME subscribers, we explore the financial challenges facing athletes in low-revenue Olympic sports like synchronized swimming. The U.S. is one of the ...

The artistic swimmer gave fans a behind-the-scenes look at her "Olympic Peelies" as she removed her hair gel in an Instagram clip Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has ...

LANSDALE, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- More than 30 years ago, Heather Doherty saw a poster advertising a synchronized swimming group called, 'The Mermaids,' at her local YMCA. Doherty is now the head of ...

MOSCOW, August 19 /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Russian synchronized swimmers Natalya Ishchenko, Svetlana Romashina, Svetlana Kolesnichenko, Alexandra Patskevich, Yelena ...