My mother signed me up for swim lessons at the age of 2. Just two short years later, I was competing at my first club swim meet with The Woodlands Swim Team (TWST). At 4 years old, I was the smallest ...

Vijaya Srivastava, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, took her first swimming lesson at age 68. She’s now a daily swimmer. Credit...Video by Aubrey Trinnaman for The New York Times Supported by ...

It’s another gray Pacific Northwest winter morning. The kind where the water and sky blend together into one, imbued with a raw, wet cold that seeps into your bones. I could be sitting inside drinking ...

Too often, swimmers need to remember their swim meet essentials. Coaches always have swimmers who may have forgotten the items they needed to race and found out too late. Swim meets can be hectic, and ...