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 ...

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 ...

If Bill May makes the U.S. Olympic team, he will become the first man ever to compete in artistic swimming, formerly known as synchronized swimming, at the Games. Bill May and U.S. Olympic artistic ...

Most people remember the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta for a pipe bombing and a dramatic one-legged vault landing by Kerri Strug. Not Michele Bennett. Though it received far less attention than the ...

Two members of the U.S. artistic swim team that won a silver medal at the Paris Olympics Wednesday got their start in what was formerly known as synchronized swimming with Seattle Synchro. The ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — 9-year-old Cammie Engel grew up around the pool. “She was born in Florida and we obviously had to get her in swimming lessons really quickly,” her mom, Mollie Engel, said. But ...

UA President Robert Shelton admitted he didn’t know much about synchronized swimming, but he was given a complete education Saturday as he watched the final rounds of the U.S. Synchronized Swimming ...

If you, a die hard Olympics nerd [enthusiastically thrusts hand into air], have been feverishly sifting through your TV guide in search of synchronized swimming these past few weeks with no success, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sport, formerly known as synchronized swimming, has a new name as well as more muscular athletes and more risky tricks. At a minimum, it demands endurance, power, leonine grace, hair gelatin, ...