There were two physical activities my father insisted his children learn. One was swimming, the other was snow skiing. So it was that around 7 years old I was hauled to a swim class to learn the ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - Kids in the Good Life City are getting the chance to have free swim lessons with Coroner Michael Fowler and the Albany YMCA’s Swim for Life Program. The Swim for Life Program has ...

CLOSTER, New Jersey (WABC) -- Sadly, we cover backyard pool tragedies all the time. As a reminder, you are required to have a fence around your pool for safety. There are all sorts of door locks and ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The First Coast YMCA, in partnership with Farah & Farah, held a special event Saturday morning at Winston Family YMCA in Riverside to talk about the importance of learning how to ...

Second-graders across the five boroughs are ditching their floaties and learning how to tread water thanks to a new program. The new program called Wave Makers will help teach 2,000 second-graders how ...

More children ages 1 to 4 die from drowning than from any other cause of death. And drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury death for kids ages 5 through 14. Swim for Charlie is a ...

Despite a years-long cancer battle, Mary Chris Kay, a Perrysburg swim coach, continues to impact her community far beyond the ...

To help ensure families can stay cool — and safe — CitiParks’ Aquatics Team is offering free swimming lessons for youth between 6-15 years old at neighborhood pools citywide. The Learn to Swim program ...

For a country with 34,000 kilometers of coastline, it may not come as a surprise that swimming is the most popular form of recreation and physical activity for Australian children aged 0 to 14 years ...