Coaching at the collegiate level is tough. Imagine how hard it must be to coach at that elite level when you're blind. That is the challenge facing the nation's only blind swimming coach at Catawba ...

That was the question that Catawba head coach Michael Sever presented to his team upon the introduction of new assistant coach Tharon Drake. Drake is the multi-medal-winning swimmer who owns 13 ...

Drake gives instructions to swimmers between sets. Tharon Drake was 14-years-old when he started to go blind. But he’s always found clarity in the pool. Now he’s helping others hone their performance ...

Paralympian and journalism intern, McClain Hermes, shares exclusively with Swimming World some of her methods of doing a flip turn at the wall. As a blind swimmer, Hermes has found freedom in swimming ...

To train for the 2013 Alcatraz Invitational Swim in late September, ASU alumnus Tanner Robinson, 25, regularly swam at his local LA Fitness pool in central Phoenix. (Photo by Shawn Raymundo) Over the ...

Vivian Stancil was 50 years old, blind, 320 pounds and afraid of the water. That’s when she did something that might sound shocking to those who don’t know her but makes perfect sense to those who do: ...

Nine-year-old Mark Lopez’s fingers flit across the pages of Dr. Seuss’ “The Cat in the Hat.” This version is pure white — no pictures — but Mark sees everything vividly. He says his favorite letter in ...

Being a collegiate coach is tough — coaching while blind is even more difficult. The only person to do it in NCAA swimming is Tharon Drake, an assistant coach at Catawba College in North Carolina.