SHORTLISTED 2025

The Vikki Orvice Award for Women's Sports Writing | Shortlisted

Swimming Pretty

by Vicki Valosik

From Victorian vaudeville tank shows to the birth of synchronised swimming in the 1920s to the modern-day Olympic arena, Swimming Pretty is a deeply researched and riveting history —the first of its kind—of a century of aquatic performance and how women found synchronicity, and most importantly power, in water.

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