When Marian Cardwell ’11 learned that she would spend her year as an English teaching assistant in Lille, France, she began dreaming of a swim—a very long swim. Lille is near the English Channel, a ...

An event is set to be held to mark the 150th anniversary of the first successful swim across the English Channel. Captain Matthew Webb arrived in France at the end of his milestone 22-hour Channel ...

It has been 100 years sine Gertrude Ederle, in 1926, became the first woman and sixth individual to cross the English Channel ...

A Peterborough swimmer is braving freezing water every this month ahead of a challenge taking her across the Channel.

The watch worn by the first British woman to swim the English Channel on an unsuccessful subsequent crossing is expected to sell for over £900,000. Mercedes Gleitze wore the Rolex Oyster on an attempt ...

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (WDTN) — A Yellow Springs woman has made history becoming only the second woman in Ohio to ever complete a solo English Channel swim. Yellow Springs native Amy Wamsley has ...

For a middle-aged guy with a wife, four children, a full time job, six chickens, two dogs and a rabbit, Jake Dolce of Rye Brook manages to spend a lot of time swimming. His love of the sport is a ...