Swimming is one of the great joys of summer, but for too many kids the water can turn deadly. Drowning is the second-leading cause of accidental deaths of children under the age of 15, according to ...

At a swim meet just outside St. Louis, heads turned when a team of young swimmers walked through the rec center with their parents in tow. A supportive mom kept her eye on the clock while the Makos ...

Black youth in the United States disproportionately experience fatal drowning at rates up to five times higher than their White peers. These statistics relate to historical and structural barriers ...

The Greater Middlesex Conference swimming community is holding their annual "Practice for a Purpose" event to benefit The Marisa Tufaro Foundation.

In 2011, I received a call that is every parent’s nightmare. My beautiful, sweet, smart 12-year-old daughter Jenny, who had gone to a friend’s birthday party, had been rushed to the hospital. She ...

In the drowning prevention community, we dread hearing the other F-word: floaties. These seemingly innocuous devices give responsible parents a false sense of security with the assumption that the ...

Over the last five years, Amy Peden has received funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, Meta, Surf Life Saving Australia. the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry ...

There was something in the air last evening at the pool, something more than the smell of chlorine and the shrieks of young children. There was nervous energy for the first swim team practice. Our ...

In part one of our Is It Safe? series, experts warn that these popular flotation devices may give kids and parents a false sense of water confidenceExperts say kids wearing floaties should never ...

This story about swimming in Paris is part of How Paris Moves, a series of dispatches about communities and social change in France through the lens of the 2024 Summer Olympics. It’s another Friday ...