Maya Merhige made quite a splash with her latest swimming accomplishment! On Saturday, July 13, the 16-year-old girl swam across the English Channel, which spans 20.5 miles, in 11 hours and 39 minutes ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (WDTN) — A Yellow Springs woman is getting ready to do something that fewer than 2,000 people have ever done successfully. Amy Wamsley is preparing to swim across the English ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jeff Fusco, treasurer of the Hammonton Swim Club, doesn’t know anyone personally who has swum the English Channel, but he imagines it would be very difficult. In the Hammonton Swim Club, a four-person ...