Danica Minard teaches the class. She shows the girls different tricks and skills underwater. She said it’s kind of like acrobatics in the pool. All you need is a mermaid tail and your imagination. The ...

Back in the day, I mostly associated swimming pools with playing Marco Polo, doing handstands, and, most importantly, pretending to be a mermaid. Nowadays, I mostly associate them with lap swim, which ...

A few weeks ago an e-mail popped into the inboxes of the authors of this post inviting us to swim like a mermaid. We knew we had to accept, because how often in your life do you get to fulfill one of ...

The Long Island Aquarium is planning a new event for families in February called "An Enchanted Weekend" that will include a ...

It began, in a way, with a monogram. "I'm a Southern girl," Nadine Ford says. "We've got to get everything monogrammed." The monogram was for her swim bag, which Ford toted while training for her ...

With summer on the horizon, I'm dreaming of pools, parties, and being a part of the fun. Just like Ariel was wishing to be a part of our world, I'm forever dreaming I could be where the mermaids are.

Miss Mermaid Michigan, Elyssa Steward, will be at the Norris Center Swimming Pool at Lake Superior State University for a swim meet and greet. In addition to being a tri-athlete, she was a swimmer for ...