Instructors help children build confidence in aquatic skills and lay down a secure foundation for water safety and personal fitness. The program offers private swimming lessons as well as classes for ...

The Newport Harbor High girls’ swim team won the Wave League title last year, then got promoted to the upper division of the Sunset Conference, the Surf League. The Sailors went just 1-2 in their ...

These days, it seems that just about everybody cross-trains for surfing in some way or another. Which is good—because surfing is a physically demanding pastime and you should be training for it. One ...

WILBUR-BY-THE-SEA — In 2018, local high-schooler Nicole Grippa started volunteering to teach special needs children how to swim at the Ormond Family YMCA as part of a program she created called ...

Gordon Merchant thought back to those days in 1973 when he and his wife made the first 20 pairs of Billabong boardshorts at their kitchen table. Could he ever imagine Billabong, born in Australia in ...

Visually impaired athlete Alwande Mthembu to compete in Oceans 8 Charity Swim after sponsorship from leopard attack survivor ...

An Australian surf lifesaving club has found itself at the center of a controversy following its implementation of a no-nudity policy in showers and changing rooms. Ocean swimmer Nada Pantle, who ...

NARRAGANSETT, R.I. (WPRI) — With local beaches having fewer or no lifeguards on duty post-Labor Day, those looking to squeeze the last drops out of summer are warned to use caution while swimming.