Najla Brannin knew her dream was to become an Olympic swimmer when she was six years old. “I needed something to do after school. I was at the pool and my mom saw they were having diving tryouts and ...

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 ...

The Paris Olympics stoked fervor for sports that aren’t always familiar. If you watched the games and thought you might want to try pommel horse, breaking, or synchronized swimming, here’s how you can ...

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 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 ...

It’s time to start thinking about making your New Year’s resolutions. The No. 1 resolution everyone makes, and tries to follow, is to become healthier with diet or with exercise. Some may consider ...