The 25-year-old “boys” have taken it upon themselves to score each jump off the diving board, Olympics-style. Austin poolgoers have embraced the challenge.
I’ve spent the past half century immersing myself in Texas’s clear, cool waters. But if development and drought have their way, I may be the last of my kind.
When you’re floating on top of the Marriott Marquis in downtown Houston, you might have reached peak Texas.
Swimming before sunrise became a necessary ritual for novelist Elizabeth McCracken during an uncertain time. And then came the strangers.
Four decades on the job and 15 national championships apparently weren't enough for 80-year-old Eddie Reese.
The Houston swimmer finished just short of the medal stand in 2012 and 2016, but her greatest challenge has been adjusting to normal life.
The cascading effects of COVID-19—including a job-seekers’ economy and recruitment delays—are mostly to blame.
TPWD's fundraising from Apache Corporation and hundreds of Texans will support repairs at the park.
Despite threats to its survival over the years, the picturesque and petite park goes with the flow, just like its namesake river.
With its inviting spring-fed pool and abundant wildlife, the former military base is an oasis in Southwest Texas.
We’ve mapped out nineteen places to cool off the way nature intended by swimming, wading, and diving into Texas’s restorative waterways.
The risks a West Texan will take for a quick dip.
Grab your towel, your sunscreen, and go! Presenting our 25 favorite swimming holes: Barton Springs, Blue Hole, Balmorhea, and other iconic places to lower your core temperature. At least for a couple of hours.
An Austinite’s aquatic adventure.
MAKING A SPLASH—so to speak—is what Cheril Santini does best. As a member of Southern Methodist University’s diving team in the early nineties, the Dallas native made All-American ten times, was a finalist for NCAA woman of the year, and was named one of the nation’s top ten college women
The Baja wilderness isn’t a great place to confront one’s own neuroses, but it’s an even worse place to confront someone else’s.
Meet the people who can eat, leap, kick, and talk more, better, higher, and faster than anyone else in the world.
