Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bill Marsh can teach your kid to swim. In fact, he may be better at it than anyone else. If you think that’s no big deal, consider ...

The tradition dates back more than a century. Cornell claims credit as the first college to mandate swimming in 1905. MIT began its practice during World War II. Poor recordkeeping makes it hard to ...

Those first few poolside holidays with young children might make incredible memories, but they aren't exactly relaxing. Whether they're new to swimming unaided or have been doing so for some time, ...

There have already been 45 drownings in the Great Lakes this year. Four of the drownings happened in Lake Superior. As we’re entering August, which is one of the deadlier months for people and ...

My 4-year-old dreads swimming lessons. Some nights, long past his bedtime, he calls me into his room and asks me, in a whisper, if he has to go to swim class tomorrow. It breaks my heart. Swimming is ...