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 ...

In the open water, the distances are long; the effort is exhausting. Lorelei Schmidt thinks about quitting frequently. It would be easy, expected even, considering the difficulty she faces. The ...

Amy Wamsley tells people to live their dreams. She’s already swum from San Francisco to Alcatraz, and has eyed the English Channel since she was 12. A Yellow Springs woman is planning to swim across ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Paralympic gold medallist became the first blind woman to swim across the English Channel – and says that “nothing is impossible.” Melanie Barratt, 49, took on the challenge after falling in love ...

A long-distance swimmer is on the brink of attempting to achieve a lifelong dream by swimming the English Channel. On Monday morning Lindsey Walke, 49, from Plymouth, said she was waiting for the call ...

Craigen began competiitive swimming at age 10. She also swam around Manhattan and from Catalina Island to the California coast. A fear of sharks originally held her back from open-water swimming.

An American cancer survivor successfully became the first person to swim the English Channel four times in a row. Sarah Thomas, 37, finished the remarkable swim Tuesday morning after more than 54 ...

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 ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. In the open water, the distances are long; the effort is exhausting. Lorelei Schmidt thinks about quitting frequently. It would be ...