Learning to Swim with My Dad

Alex Wowra. Photo by Victor Figueroa

USC student Alex Wowra loves to swim laps at the campus rec. center. Champion swimmers have trained there, but for Alex, swimming reminds him of his childhood in Germany, when his dad taught him how to swim. "All of a sudden, I looked back and realized I was like halfway in the pool..."

--Produced by Victor Figueroa