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 ...

Prior to my synchronized-­swimming lesson, I’d imagined something serene: delicate flapping of arms, elegant surface glides, a single leg raised in the air. Then I hopped into the pool at the Silver ...

Off-Ramp's Elyssa Dudley reports on the resurfacing of synchronized swimming. A few years ago, synchronized swimming seemed like a lost art, a throwback to the 1940s, with its flowered swimming caps ...

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 ...