When I was a small child, my mother often brought me along when she taught physical education at a small women’s college, run by nuns who were happy to have a young married woman to handle fencing ...
Temperatures are on the rise again around Southern California, which makes the possibility of a pool, and time spent in a beautiful blue expanse, especially appealing. Stream Los Angeles News for free ...
Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...
What does it take to be a U.S. Olympic artistic swimmer? At a minimum, it demands endurance, power, leonine grace, hair gelatin, dance lessons, mastery of the eggbeater, flamingo, scull and rocket ...
LOS ANGELES Founded in 2008, the Aqualillies are a mix of old and new /*Hollywood*/. They are synchronized swimmers and dancers, using Southern California pools as their stage. "What inspires me is a ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — 9-year-old Cammie Engel grew up around the pool. “She was born in Florida and we obviously had to get her in swimming lessons really quickly,” her mom, Mollie Engel, said. But ...
Aqualillies, Southern California's acclaimed synchronized swimming troupe, holds exactly one public performance each year. Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, wherever you are. That performance ...
On Saturday mornings, I sit on a bench next to a basement pool and watch my kids in the same swim lesson class. Both of them have been in the ...
The Paris Olympics stoked fervor for sports that aren’t always familiar. If you watched the games and thought you might want to try pommel horse, breaking, or synchronized swimming, here’s how you can ...
In the early 20th century, most Western women still bound their cores in corsets. Not so with Annette Kellerman, the record-setting Australian swimmer who told a crowd of New York City socialites in ...
The sport, formerly known as synchronized swimming, has a new name as well as more muscular athletes and more risky tricks. At a minimum, it demands endurance, power, leonine grace, hair gelatin, ...