News from ADMS and USMS
After a 30-year break from any type of swimming, I needed to jump-start my gym routine because my running days were over. The pool was the obvious...
This past August, Colorado Masters Swimming member Sarah Thomas swam 104.6 miles...
As one of 134 volunteers, swimmer Margot Pettijohn leads horses and riders through 30-minute- or hour-long riding lessons.
The Coronado Masters Association swimmer and USMS-certified adult learn-to-swim instructor helped teach 121 adults and 309 children over 10...
Houston Cougar Masters swimmer Helena Finley was just one of many U.S. Masters Swimming members impacted by Harvey, which hit Texas on Aug....
The 75-year-old AnnLiv Bacon and another swimmer at Summer Nationals who has undergone joint replacement surgery, the 80-year-old Owen Ackerman of...
With three children and three grandchildren who are or were competitive swimmers, my father, 74, has spent a good part of the past 40 years going...
Despite facing conditions that limit their training as soon as they jump into the water, Brad Jones and Janine Yoder were among the 2,000-plus...
The Simon’s Rock Pace Makers Masters club put a new twist on a longstanding USMS event this winter when the club in Great Barrington, Mass.,...
The recent U.S. Olympic Trials included more than 40 current or former U.S. Masters Swimming members who were either competing there for the first...
The day Dara Torres hit the water in her fifth Olympics, my reentry to swimming began. She swam a sub-25-second 50 freestyle while I clung to the...
They say diplomats who serve in Kabul, Afghanistan become hunks, skunks, drunks, monks, or chunks. I was determined to become the former and...
In the summer of 1977, my half-brother Henry was living in Bloomington, Ind., having moved there a couple years earlier after his parents’ divorce...
Your teammates are your family. Our tight-knit community bonds swimmers together across miles and years. Whether you’ve hung up the suit or...
