Doug McConnell did not finish A Long Swim between Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard in a charity swim to benefit ALS (or Lou Gehrig’s disease to benefit the Les Turner ALS Foundation research program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Doug McConnell will attempt A Long Swim, another one of his charity swims to benefit ALS on July 27, 2022
Douglas McConnell is raising money for A Long Swim with creative fundraising ideas.
#TheCureIsOutThere With A Long Swim Courtesy of Douglas McConnell, Barrington, Illinois. A Long Swim will be held from Northwestern to Northwestern on September 13th. Douglas McConnell explains, "We will start up at the Evanston campus at 7:30 in the morning, and swim south to the Medical School campus near Navy Pier. It will be 13 miles of some pretty
Douglas McConnell Talks About Virtual Teamwork Courtesy of Douglas McConnell, Vissant Capital Corporation, Illinois. A Long Swim has raised US$500,000 for ALS research, dedicated to the groundbreaking and collaborative research at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, one of the top ALS research laboratories in the
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. "I've leveraged our 69 years of relationships in Barrington and the Chicago area, to support Doug and his commitment to finding a Cure for ALS. I remember when we first met, asking him why he did these outrageous swims. He answered, "Because I can still use my arms and legs; an ALS patient cannot." On
Courtesy of Douglas McConnell, A Long Swim, Ka’iwi Channel. In 2016, A Long Swim will head to Hawaii to swim between the islands of Molokai and Oahu. The swim itself will be dubbed '27 miles of paradise', assuming we don’t have to fight too many currents and can swim relatively straight and starts on the west end of Molokai and ends on the east end of
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Douglas McConnell, Managing Director of Vissant Capital Corporation, has very good reasons to keep swimming. McConnell is swimming to benefit the Les Turner ALS Foundation. "We are closing in in US$300,000 with all of the A Long Swim [that include his Tampa Bay Marathon Swim and English Channel crossing in
Investment banker Doug McConnell continues to step up his game in the open water swimming world. Last week, he completed his second channel of the Oceans Seven with a 12 hour 41 minute crossing of the Catalina Channel. His swim benefitted the Les Turner ALS Foundation of Skokie, Illinois. Known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease), the constantly creative
