A 72-year-old New Yorker is making waves in the women-dominated sport of synchronized swimming. Harvey Burgett began swimming less than a decade ago in a continuing education class taught by Dale ...

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 ...

Synchronized swimming is no doubt a beautiful sport. It was arguably popularized by the iconic Esther Williams in the mid 1900s, but it was shown more in an artistic and theatrical way. Since then, ...

The nation’s longest running synchronized swim club is at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines. The nation’s longest running synchronized swim club is at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines. Dive under ...

Houston-area swimmers Ella Wei and Mae Chen compete in a synchronized swimming meet. The 2019 South Zone Region C JO and Intermediate Championship Novice Invitational will be held May 11-12 in ...

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 late 2022, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that at this summer’s Paris Olympic Games, men would be allowed to compete in artistic swimming (previously known as synchronized ...

Marathon swimming or open water? Artistic swimming or synchronized? There’s a bit of aquatic confusion at the Olympics, where two of the disciplines are referred to by conflicting names. Officially, ...