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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first half of the women's duets synchronized swimming preliminaries played out in Rio on Sunday morning — and in a clear, no-longer-green-and-algae-filled pool (so the judges could better monitor ...

Mary Black was a trailblazer for the sport and is about to be recognised for her achievements over nine decades.

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 ...