In the end, the story of Amy Mazur’s quest to swim the English Channel is one of friendship. Sure, there’s the training, the hardship, and the expense, but the deepest story of all is the bond between ...

Jeannie Zappe has always felt strong in the water. She was a competitive swimmer in high school and then later became a coach. The water has always been the place where she found a way to push her ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — Many area swimming coaches competed in their teens. But no one can match the experiences — exhilarating and harrowing — of First Colonial’s Robin Lang, who almost completed a swim of ...

Jennifer Whitlock decided three years ago she wanted to swim the English Channel, and, after years of training, she will finally have her chance to make the famous open water swim in September.

Mathews High School Class of 1989 graduate Andy Rieger has done a lot of swimming in his life to raise funds and awareness for cancer research. This summer, he is taking on a new challenge. Later this ...

Katie Pumphrey, a Baltimore open-water ultra-marathon swimmer, is preparing for another long-distance challenge, her third English Channel crossing. Pumphrey completed a six-hour swim on Thursday in ...

Five women from Jersey have completed a swim of the English Channel. Lisa Biddlecombe, Karen Le Cornu, Jean Rhodes, Rhiannon Patel and Rachel Sayers completed the crossing in 13 hours and five minutes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jeannie Zappe has always felt strong in the water. She was a competitive swimmer in high school and then later became a coach. The ...

They’re out there, and every now and then you bump into one: Ordinary people who do extraordinary things. Amy Mazur, recently retired and about to turn 63, is such a person. She plans to swim the ...