Splendido resident, Dr. Earl Terp, has competed in numerous Senior Olympics events and garnered scores of medals through his years of competition. A longtime recreational swimmer, Terp began competitive swimming for his high school team in Chicago, and never hung up his swim trunk when he retired to Splendido, where he regularly uses the community’s saline pool and enjoys fitness in retirement. 

(NAPSI)—Summer is right around the corner, and for many families, that means it’s the season for pool time fun. Swimming is not only the ideal way to cool off, it’s also great exercise and supports a healthy lifestyle.

(BPT) - When the Navy needs to complete seemingly impossible missions or track elusive targets, the job is often assigned to Naval Special Warfare (NSW) or Naval Special Operations (NSO) teams. These elite men and women work with dedication and intense courage in locations all over the world, and in every possible climate, to neutralize potential threats.

(NAPSI)—It happens all the time: You’ve been swimming a lot and then one night when your head hits the pillow you suddenly notice that your ear hurts. You’ve got swimmer’s ear—but what causes it? Surprisingly, swimmer’s ear is not caused by swimming at all. It’s simply associated with swimming. It’s actually caused by bacteria or fungi that invade the ear canal.

(BPT) - Hearing aids – those two words alone may conjure up images of unattractive, beige devices that your father or grandmother once wore before finally throwing them in a drawer, never to be seen again. And who could blame them? In the past, hearing aids were big, bulky and fragile – incapable of getting wet or dirty. But hearing aids have come a very long way. Here are five things you may not know about today’s digital hearing aids:

(BPT) - It’s dark. It’s cold. Heading to the pool might be the furthest thing from your mind. While summer is the time of year for playing at the beach, pool parties and outdoor water sports, the colder months are actually a great time to start swimming.

2012 UA Sports Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony:

An Iraq War veteran, nine-year U.S. Army soldier and former competitive swimmer has opened a personal training business in Oro Valley.

The Ironwood Ridge Nighthawks boys’ and girls’ swim teams competed in the talent-filled Division I state championship meet on Nov. 2-3 at the Mesa Aquatics Swim Club, and came away with some key performances.

(BPT) - - November is American Diabetes Month(R), a time to bring attention to the seriousness of diabetes and to the many people who are impacted by the disease.

The Town of Oro Valley’s council meetings are back in full swing, following a two-month summer break, and it hasn’t taken long for some discord to surface between the council members. 

Swimmers from four different Tucson-area high schools might be getting to know each other a bit better these days.

The Tucson Padres are welcoming two local Olympians from the recently concluded Summer Olympics in London to throw out ceremonial first pitches before Thursday’s game against Colorado Springs. Women’s swimmer Alyssa Anderson and Men’s swimmer Clark Burckle are both former University of Arizona swimmers who competed for the United States teams last month.

As the XXX Olympiad came to a close Sunday night, we all had the same thought, why are the next Olympics so far away? Every four years the world comes together and gets excited for what? Is it the patriotism and pride that comes along with it? Is it the sports themselves? Or is it something else?

As the 2012 Summer Olympic Games get underway, once again athletes from the University of Arizona will be there en force.

Following a unanimous vote by the Oro Valley Town Council on June 20 to approve an additional $1.55 million for expansion of the Town’s Aquatic Center, construction is on schedule.

While some other high school students spent an entire Saturday preparing for their prom, Maggie McCord and Sara Borendame were preparing for the U.S. Olympic Swim Team time trials.

Just after 6 p.m. Tuesday, the Northwest Fire District was called to a private pool located near Ina Road and La Cholla Boulevard after a reported bee swarm had attacked swimmers and parents during swim meet practice and private lessons.

The news is out, the Town of Oro Valley is moving forward with a $3.4 million aquatic center that will bring Olympic-caliber recognition to the facility, but in the meantime, the pool will be closed this summer.

A local Tucson-area swimming club, Tucson FORD Dealers Aquatics, which practices at the University of Arizona pool, took 12 local area swimmers to the NCSA Junior National Championship swim meet in Orlando last week.