At a swim meet just outside St. Louis, heads turned when a team of young swimmers walked through the rec center with their ...

Swimming in the U.S. remains effectively segregated. Today, more than a third of Black adults report they do not know how to swim, more than twice the rate for adults ...

she recalled. Prentice leads aquatic fitness and helps people with rehabilitation at the indoor pool at 125 Live. She also gives swim lessons to individual adults at other pools. Her individual ...

Goldstein said 37% of adults can’t swim 25 yards, which is the length of a pool. That lack of knowledge has a dangerous ripple effect. “If the adult does not know how to swim, generally their ...