At the age of 37, Alberto Ortiz's swimming had been casual dips in lakes or resort pools. But when a cousin made a joke about ...

British-South African endurance athlete Lewis Pugh officially finished his 62-mile, 12-day swim around the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard on Monday, becoming the first person to accomplish ...

An American cancer survivor successfully became the first person to swim the English Channel four times in a row. Sarah Thomas, 37, finished the remarkable swim Tuesday morning after more than 54 ...

Lewis Pugh has followed an unspoken rule during his career as one of the world’s most daring endurance swimmers: Don’t talk about sharks. But he plans to break that this week on a swim around Martha’s ...

Marcy MacDonald had already been swimming for 26 hours across the English Channel where the Strait of Dover converges with the North Sea. She was on her way from England to Belgium when she got stuck ...

ARP — For the first time, Arp High School will be represented at the UIL Swimming and Diving State Meet. That’s because Arp doesn’t have a swim team. But what Arp does have is Megan Spears, who will ...

One is vertical, high-impact and performed on land; the other is horizontal, low-impact and performed in the water. On the face of it, running and swimming share about as much in common as chalk with ...