American Enterprise Institute

Now Colleges Are Even Dropping the Swimming Test—and That Could Cost Lives

Image from New York Post. Competitors enter the Oceanside Harbor to start the swim portion of he 2026 IRONMAN 70.3 Oceanside on March 28, 2026 in Oceanside, California. I vividly remember the ...
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West Tammany YMCA uses grant to teach kids to swim

At the first of the two sessions, 90 percent of the children’s hands shot into the air when they were asked who could swim, she said. But hardly any of them passed a basic swim test, which included ...
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Now colleges are even dropping the swimming test — and that could cost lives

I vividly remember the trepidation I felt as a Cornell University student when I took my required swim test. We had to enter the deep end of the pool with a feet-first jump, float or tread water for ...