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 ...

Drake gives instructions to swimmers between sets. Tharon Drake was 14-years-old when he started to go blind. But he’s always found clarity in the pool. Now he’s helping others hone their performance ...

That was the question that Catawba head coach Michael Sever presented to his team upon the introduction of new assistant coach Tharon Drake. Drake is the multi-medal-winning swimmer who owns 13 ...

Paralympian and journalism intern, McClain Hermes, shares exclusively with Swimming World some of her methods of doing a flip turn at the wall. As a blind swimmer, Hermes has found freedom in swimming ...

SALISBURY, N.C. — At swim practice at Catawba College, the assistant coach tweaks techniques and makes subtle adjustments lane by lane, swimmer by swimmer. But no one coaches collegiate swimming like ...

To train for the 2013 Alcatraz Invitational Swim in late September, ASU alumnus Tanner Robinson, 25, regularly swam at his local LA Fitness pool in central Phoenix. (Photo by Shawn Raymundo) Over the ...

Being a collegiate coach is tough — coaching while blind is even more difficult. The only person to do it in NCAA swimming is Tharon Drake, an assistant coach at Catawba College in North Carolina.

FORT WAYNE, Ind (WANE) – A 4-year-old girl from Fort Wayne will get to swim with dolphins, thanks to the Make-A-Wish foundation. The organization is sending Jaylee Marks and her family on a six-day ...

Coaching at the collegiate level is tough. Imagine how hard it must be to coach at that elite level when you're blind. That is the challenge facing the nation's only blind swimming coach at Catawba ...