Carol Sing

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Carol Sing (born 24 August 1941), is an American marathon swimmer from San Diego, California and was the oldest successful female swimmer of the English Channel and the Catalina Channel at the time of her crossings. She serves as a Marathon Swimming Mentor.

Open Water Swimming Career

She is a member of the Half Century Club for her 33.5 km crossing of the English Channel from England to France at the age of 56 in 12 hours 32 minutes in 1999.
She crossed the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain to Morocco on 24 September 2005 in 5 hours 26 minutes at the age of 64.
She is on the board of directors of the Catalina Channel Swimming Federation.
She serves as a lifetime member of the Catalina Channel Swimming Federation.
She served as a member of the board of directors of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame prior to organizational structural changes in 2015.
She is a member of the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming.
She completed a 45.9 km Manhattan Island Marathon Swim in 8 hours and 46 minutes in 1998.
She completed a 45.9 km Manhattan Island Marathon Swim in 9 hours and 16 minutes in 2001.
She has crossed the Catalina Channel on a paddleboard at the 2005 Catalina Classic Paddleboard Race in 8 hours 58 minutes.
She crossed the Catalina Channel by swimming in 10 hours 48 minutes in 1996 at the age of 55.
She is a Lifetime Member of the Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association.
She is a member of the ATI Team 4, a 6-person team that completed a 64.6 km circumnavigation swim relay around Santa Catalina Island in the Pacific Ocean off of Southern California on 16 September 2018 in 41 hours 54 minutes 45 seconds together with Susanne Blair, Becky Jackman, Michella Thomas, Alice Ma, and Krista Anderson.
She participated in a two-way crossing of Loch Lomond.
She completed a 17.7 km Coronado Around the Island circumnavigation swim three times.
She completed a crossing of the Maui Channel.
She swam around Pennock Island in Alaska.

Other Aquatics Activities

In 2004, she paddled the Catalina Classic which is the premier USA West Coast paddleboard competition. Again she was the oldest woman to complete and one of three women who have paddled and swam the Catalina Channel. She also competed in Australia and Fiji.

Catalina Channel crossings

She assisted dozens of Catalina Channel crossings including the successful crossing of Team Tripod. She also served as part of the observer team for Team FTD that successfully completed an unprecedented 6-way crossing of the Catalina Channel on 10-14 July 2014 in 61 hours 6 minutes (see chart on right). She was also on the Wild Old Women relay, a team of six female swimmers in their 60s who set a Catalina Channel crossing record of 16 hours 15 minutes on 4 August 2012 from the California mainland to Catalina Island. The members consisted of Carol Sing, Janet Lamott, Debbie Peckham, Dudley Rockwell, Betsy Jordan, and Sandra Vickers.