Jillian Is The Best
Jillian Best, a 34-year-old from London, completed a 18 hours 36 minutes 52 km crossing of Lake Ontario in August 2021. It was an inspirational and unselfish swim that she explains on Marathon Swim Stories with Shannon House (see here).
She was able to raise money for the London Health Sciences Centre because that is where she received her liver transplant in 2016. A documentary was made (see below) and her swim was the catalyst to the establishment of the Move For Life Foundation (visit here).
For more information about the Move For Life Foundation, visit here.
To listen to her interview with Shannon House on Marathon Swim Stories, listen here.
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