As Team USA began competing in artistic swimming, formerly known as synchronized swimming, at the Paris Olympics Monday, three-time Olympian Anita Alvarez is jumping into the pool with a new ...

"I remember suddenly beginning to see light through my eyes," Team USA artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez says of her near-death experience, "just as they were starting to put an oxygen mask on me" Even ...

Two years ago, Anita Alvarez made headlines after she was rescued from drowning by her coach during an artistic swimming competition. Now, the elite athlete is an Olympic silver medalist. Alvarez, 27, ...

TOWN OF TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WKBW — A Western New York native has officially etched her name into the Olympic history books! Anita Alvarez and her teammates took home the silver medal in artistic swimming ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Representing Western New York on the world’s stage, Anita Alvarez will bring an Olympic medal home from Paris. The Kenmore native trained in the Tonawanda Aquettes program as a ...

The return of a globally acclaimed athlete and an Olympian to their hometown is always a joyous moment for the community.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Andrea Fuentes prevented a tragedy at the swimming world championships with her quick reaction. The United States coach knew something was wrong when she saw artistic swimmer ...

What does it take to be a U.S. Olympic artistic swimmer? At a minimum, it demands endurance, power, leonine grace, hair gelatin, dance lessons, mastery of the eggbeater, flamingo, scull and rocket ...

(WIVB) – Anita Alvarez, a two-time Olympian from New York, had a scare Wednesday when she passed out in the pool during the FINA World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. But her coach said on social ...

Olympic silver medalist, Anita Alvarez, performed in the water this weekend during USA Artistic Swimming's Youth National Championships, the two-day competition in Buffalo this year.

Alvarez in her Air Force uniform, and (right) during her brush with death at the 2022 FINA World Championships. Even three years later, the image of an unconscious Anita Alvarez sinking to the bottom ...