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This piece originally appeared in print in the August 2019 issue of Louisville Magazine. The first step to teaching adults how to swim is getting them to relax. “We have people line up on the (pool) ...
April has been officially recognized by U.S. Masters Swimming as “Adult Learn-to-Swim” month, drawing attention to the ...
GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - An Upstate nonprofit is trying to change the statistics of drownings. The Center for Disease (CDC) estimates that more than 4,000 people die every year from ...
A program launched this summer aims to prevent what happened to the sister of a Greenville businessman from happening to anyone else. Leonard Pitts owns Brookside Pool in Mauldin. His sister, Angel, ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says more than one-third of Black American adults don’t know how to swim, and 63% have never taken a lesson. Segregation left Black Americans without ...
There was magic in the water. Ray, a Masters Swimmer turned volunteer swim instructor was helping Mary. On the other side of the pool, Mary’s two kids were doing bobs in Station One of our SwimAmerica ...