Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Scott Zornig of the Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association reported that Carol Hayden became the oldest female to complete a channel swim off a California Channel Island when she swam from Anacapa Islandto Ventura on the California mainland in 9 hours 51 minutes. The 64-year-old dynamo broke the current
Lynn Kubasek, a nominee for the 2013 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year, had a great year in 2013. It was a great comeback from 2012 when she experienced an uncharacteristic DNF. Photo shows Kubasek swimming in-between paddler was Allison Bayne and swimmer Carol Hayden, with a fin on the upper left corner. Kubasek remembers, "About 20 minutes
Lynn Kubasek created a video of 2 relay teams: Live Bait (Julian Rusinek, Theo Schmeeckle, Peter Hayden, Natalie Merrow, Kelley Schall, and Carol Hayden) and Aged Chum (Scott Zornig, Michael Sullivan, Lisa Nordholm, Kevin Seres, Rob Dumouchel, and Lynn Kubasek) as they both swam from Santa Cruz Island to Silverstrand Beach on the California mainland in 12
Up and down the coasts from Brighton to Busselton and many places between, piers dot the coastline of hundreds of countries. But there may be no other place on Earth that melds the sport of open water swimming and piers as well as California. From San Diego in the south to Santa Cruz in the north, the 770 miles (1,240 km) of coastline is punctuated with
Women over the age of 40 are the fastest growing demographic group in the open water swimming world. This trend is true in nearly all of the regions of the world. Laura Lee (left) and Jeannine Chomyn (right), mothers and swimmers, are representative of many of these women who are flocking to the sport. "I grew up playing in the Orange County beaches and
