Meet Aaron Tinsley-Bradford: A Six-Year-Old Competitive Swimmer Making His Mark On The Sport By: Brianna Rhodes Aaron Tinsley-Bradford is a six-year-old Black competitive swimmer who has a bright future ahead of him. A City of Detroit Championship High Point winner and a Junior Olympic qualifier, the young...
By: Brianna Rhodes Competitive swimming is a sport that is rarely talked about in the Black community. Unlike basketball and football, competitive swimming is not a sport Black kids flock to. Razor Aquatics swim team coach, Jamal Roberts, is working to change this. Currently leading a team...
Every summer more Black kids choose to join a summer swim team. Their participation in competitive swimming is changing the way the Black community relates to the water, and in the process, changing the sport of swimming. Black Kids Swim is SO PROUD of all of...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Meet the recipients of Black Kids Swim's 2019 Summer Swim Scholarship! This past summer of 2019, Black Kids Swim awarded its Summer Swim Team Scholarships to eight amazing swimmers. Their essays clearly communicate a passion for the sport of competitive swimming and will inspire other Black...
It's a New Year and we are excited to announce a ton of new events, offerings, and products created especially for the Black Kids Swim community! The 2019 BKS Challenge! To permanently change the relationship between the Black community and the water - we have to make...
Black Kids Swim first noticed Jamal Hill or, @SwimUphill, on Instagram. We caught up with Hill on his daily one-hour morning drive to swim practice from Inglewood California to Altadena. During the long drive, Hill spoke freely about challenges in collegiate swimming, struggles with the...
Khalid Ali is six years old and recently tried out for the local city swim team in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Khalid began taking swim lessons at the local YMCA in January with the #1 goal of joining a swim team. We are SO PROUD of Khalid for achieving...
Cason Wilburn is one of the fastest high school swimmers in the U.S.A. Black Kids Swim is proud to announce that Cason has decided to attend Notre Dame beginning in the fall of 2019. Cason will swim for coach Mike Litzinger who has led the...
Olympic Gold Medalist Simone Manuel and Olympic Silver Medalist Mehdy Metella of France are turning in excellent performances at this weeks FINA World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. On Day one, Simone won Gold with three teammates in the 100 free relay. She swam anchor and had...
Simone Manuel won first place in the 50 freestyle at last weekend's U.S. Swimming Nationals. The competition, held in Indianapolis IN in a 50 meter pool, also serves as trials for World Championships to be held in Budapest later this month. Simone's win with a...
If you're wondering who is dominating the world of swimming, you can stop. Simone Manuel is breaking records all over the place, and she's just getting started. More importantly, she is blazing a trail for many young Black swimmers who want to be just like...
Robert Mangan is a successful African-American swimmer who swims for Ithica High School's Ithica Little Reds. His swim coach told him about Black Kids Swim and he immediately reached out to us to say "Thank you for sharing the site with the public and supporting African-American...
