For land athletes new to the water, passing and exceeding the standards for swimming require a combination of technique, cardio endurance in the pool, and pace. Five hundred meters or 500 yards are ...

Preparing for future military swimming and diving training requires spending several days a week in the pool. You must swim, tread, drownproof and swim with fins well. All take practice learning the ...

With the Olympic buzz still in the air, swim club personnel persevere in polishing swimmer skills while college coaches continue the unending process of targeting potential recruits. One such prospect ...

Every coach treasures a special talent. Orinda Aquatics coach Don Heidary has one in Stella Canoles, a freestyle/butterfly/IM specialist from Lafayette, Calif., who, in only two years of club swimming ...