Since I found out I was having a baby I knew I wanted to sign her up for swim lessons. My daughter started lessons when she was 6 months old. It can be so hard to enroll in and manage lessons that it ...

When I was 4 years old, my mom took me to my first swim lesson. Ready to go with my goggles in hand, I eagerly entered the cold water with my instructor. Most of the other kids my age were shy and ...

When I was 5 years old, I nearly drowned while visiting a Pennsylvania amusement park. I spent 30 seconds underwater not knowing what to do. Luckily, I was rescued by a lifeguard and resuscitated, but ...

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A mother’s determination to end a legacy of racial trauma started with mother-son swim lessons. Nasir Bates, 4, took to swimming naturally when he started lessons as a baby.Credit...Elena Fedorova for ...

Unfortunately, my new passion for open-water swimming coincided with the fact that I actually did not know how to swim. The lessons I got at the Y as a kid were intended, as one swim coach told me, to ...

Swimming is a difficult sport which requires sacrifices and demands maturity. Growing up in the sport and swimming through college offers countless opportunities to learn life lessons and ingrains ...