From Camden and Cherry Hill to Trenton and the Jersey Shore, what about life in New Jersey do you want WHYY News to cover? Let us know. This week, professional musician and New Jersey native Andrew ...

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 ...

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.

Just over a year ago, Anchorage’s Jordan Iverson set out to accomplish a feat that only a few hundred people in the world and just one other Alaskan have ever done: complete the open-water swimming ...

Now that 2026 has arrived, we can embark on a year-long celebration of Gertrude Ederle, who became the first woman to cross the English Channel a century ago. One hundred years ago, Gertrude Ederle ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seth Baetzold was determined to get another shot at the English Channel. In 2022, the Minnesota native was ready to attempt the crossing, but the conditions were not right and it was scratched. “I ...

Braving strong sea currents and cold water temperatures, Mumbai's Avinash Thadani completed a solo swim across the English Channel in 22 hours. The 45-year-old successfully swam across the ...