John Szum Gives It His All
Year in and year out, John Szum shows up like clockwork at the Nantasket Beach Swim, a charity swim organized by Swim Across America this morning in Hull, Massachusetts.Szum participates annually in the Nantasket Beach Swim with a passion and a smile. After losing his wife to cancer, Szum has raised the most amount of money to support Swim Across America’s continued programs to support cancer research, prevention and treatment.
Organized by Kitty Tretreault (shown with Szum), the short (1/2-mile) and long (1-mile) courses traverse along the shores of Nantasket Beach. With college swim teams, club teams, recreational and masters swimmers and people who feel like having fun and doing some good including Olympians Heather Petri and Kristy Kowal, the event continues to grow year after year…thanks to dedicated people like Szum.
The swimmers collected and donated over US$82,000 in this year’s event with Szum leading the way.
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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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