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 ...

It has been 100 years sine Gertrude Ederle, in 1926, became the first woman and sixth individual to cross the English Channel ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amy Wamsley of Yellow Springs jumped into the water on the shores of England last week at 49 years old. After swimming in freezing waters for nearly 17 hours straight, she emerged from the waters onto ...

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 ...

Work has started on a new leisure centre, named after the first man to swim the English Channel. The new Captain Matthew Webb ...

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 ...

A dream in the works for years became a reality for a North St. Paul, Minnesota, native. Thirty-year-old Seth Baetzold swam across the English Channel on Wednesday, saying he didn't do it for himself, ...