Swim For Kim
This is a love story that especially melts the hearts of swimmers.Pete and Kim Tarnapoll met swimming, got married and enjoyed their life together. Then, Kim was diagnosed with multiple myeloma and is fighting this form of cancer with Pete‘s help.
As Pete says, “Cancer sucks. Plain and simple. Kim’s strength in her fight has been remarkable. So is the care and compassion she’s received from the folks at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute.”
Pete has now taken up Kim’s cause and others who have multiple myeloma through swimming. Pete will be swimming in the Little Red Lighthouse Swim, six miles up the Hudson River in New York on September 25th in Kim’s honor.
“I love my wife and I’d swim to the ends of the earth if it meant helping in even the smallest of ways against this biggest of challenges – her fight, and the fight of thousands of others, against multiple myeloma. That’s why I Swim For Kim.”
Copyright © 2010 by Steven Munatones
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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