Have Swimsuit And Goggles, Will Travel
It is a jet-setting life Ashley Twichell leads. From airport to airport, city to city, ocean to lake, pool to pool, the professional open water swimmer adds up the air mileage a la masters swimmers Barbara Held, Ned Denison and Roger Finch.
The trio literally travel around the world in search of open water swims. In a very, very short span bouncing from continent to continent.
Over these two weeks, the Duke University graduate will travel from her home pool in North Carolina to New York City to the east coast of Australia to Western Australia. And then it is off to South Africa via Singapore and then through Germany to get back to New York and her home pool in North Carolina.
During that span, she competes in the 10 km Swim The Swan event at the BHP Aquatic Super Series in Perth and the aQuellé Midmar Mile and 10 km marathon swim in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa while training with dozens of world-class swimmers in a variety of pools.
Around and around she goes.
Photo shows Ashley Twichell with her race number (#14,049) at the aQuellé Midmar Mile where she is the defending champion.
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Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Citrus Corps, World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Global Open Water Swimming Conference. He is Chief Executive Officer of KAATSU Global and KAATSU Research Institute. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010), USA Swimming's Glen S. Hummer Award (2007, 2010) and Harvard University's John B. Imrie Award (1984). Served on the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and as Technical Delegate with the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games, and 9-time USA Swimming coaching staff. Note: WOWSA only recommends products or services used or recommended by the community. WOWSA does not receive compensation for links or products mentioned on this site or in blog posts. If it does, it will be indicated clearly on that specific post. See WOWSA's privacy policy for more information.
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