Renowned marathon swimmer Penny Dean spoke at the Triathlon Club of San Diego this week about her initial failures in the open water and her ultimate successes in the Catalina Channel and English Channel.
A video broadcast of Penny’s talk to the triathlon crowd is available at the Triathlon Club of San Diego website. She spoke about “her little swim in 1978” – a world record setting English Channel swim.
A long-time mainstay of the Catalina Channel community and the former USA Swimming National Open Water Swim Team coach, Dean‘s next speech on her West Coast tour will be at the Global Open Water Swimming Conference this Saturday.
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.