PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) – A Morton native pushed her body to the very limits while battling cancer this summer, joining a highly exclusive club by completing the Irish Triple Crown of open water swimming.

She’s taking home the mermaid crown. A fearless Gotham native is set to stroke across the English Channel’s 21 miles of treacherous waters this week — becoming the first woman from the Big Apple to ...

It almost felt like an out-of-body experience. And that was refreshing, because every inch of jellyfish-stung Michelle Goodwin was sore and exhausted as she swam toward the shore of Northern France. A ...

Catherine Breed of Mill Valley is preparing for the swim of a lifetime — a more than 900-mile journey down the California coast to Mexico. The Pleasanton native earned a full scholarship to swim at ...

A Charlotte native completed the first documented solo swim across the length of Lake Norman, North Carolina's largest man-made lake, over the weekend. Leslie Hamilton, who now lives in Brooklyn, New ...

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