Following their 1-2-3 finish in the 2015 NCAA 100 swimming finals, Mark Anthony Neal tweeted #BlackGirlsSwimFast to celebrate the magnificence of Lia Neal, Simone Manuel and Natalie Hinds. On Thursday ...
Simone Manuel will be at the grocery store, and someone might stop her and ask: "What sport do you do?" “Sometimes I entertain them a little bit and I let them guess,” she says with a slight laugh, ...
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Simone Manuel tied for gold with Canada's Penny Oleksiak in the women's 100-meter freestyle Thursday night, becoming the first African-American woman to win an Olympic medal in ...
Simone Manuel was unable to secure her spot for Tokyo after failing to qualify for the 100m freestyle finals at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials. Manuel revealed at a press conference on Thursday that ...
When Simone Manuel and Katie Ledecky, arguably the world’s two best female swimmers, were suddenly, indefinitely without a pool three months before the Olympic Trials, a 71-year-old hall of fame ...
It was a 200-yard freestyle final worthy of being an Olympic final. And it certainly lived up to expectations Friday night at the Pac-12 women’s swimming and diving championships at King County ...