Passing The Baton
>Alex Meyer was awarded the top open water swimming award by USA Swimming at its recent annual convention. Alex received the recently renamed award, the Fran Crippen Memorial Male Open Water Swimmer of the Year Award.The award was established in 1984 and annually presented to USA Swimming’s most outstanding open water swimmer. This year, the name of the award was changed to the Fran Crippen Memorial Male Open Water Swimmer of the Year as a permanent honor for the 2007, 2009, and 2010 winner who died tragically in a FINA World Cup event in Dubai.
Alex, one of Fran’s close friends and teammate, was selected due to his fourth place finish (and Olympic 10km Marathon Swim qualification) at the 2011 FINA World Swimming Championship 10K, his victory at the USA Swimming 10K Open Water Swimming Championships and his participation in the Fran Crippen SafeSwim International 10K (19th) and the London 10km International Marathon Swim Invitational (7th) in 2011.
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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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