10 men inspired the open water swimming community by their exploits in the open water: Dave Berry, Stephen Rouch, Phil White, Nicolas Knap, Marko Pejchinovski, Adrian Sarchet, Matthew Clarke, Marek Lehocky, Steven Minaglia, Drew Sabourin, Tulasi Chaitanya
Phil White promotes and organizes the Kingdom Swim, Vermont Open Water Swimming Hall of Fame, NEK Swim Week, Saturday Clubhous Swim Series, and In Search of Memphre
Andie Nelson attempted a 40 km In Search of Memphre across Lake Memphremagog.
Gerry Fassett (1948 - 2022) of Levis, Quebec, a great friend and supporter of the sport of open water swimming, passed away due to cancer.
Stephen Rouch and Suzanne Heim won the Cross-Border 25 km Border Buster in Lake Memphremagog, Vermont.
In years past, American marathon swimmers Sarah Thomas,
Craig Lenning, Elaine Howley, and Pat Gallant-Charette
have completed the cryptozoological Triple Crown. The quartet are conquerors of the Triple Crown of Lake Monster Swims when they completed crossings of Loch Ness
in Scotland with
Nessie
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While competitive winter swimming goes back decades in Europe and took off with the emergence of the International Winter Swimming Association under the leadership of Mariia Yrjö-Koskinen, competitive winter swimming in America really took off with the support of Phil White who is hosting again the annual Memphremagog Winter Swimming Festival on February
Phil White
of the
Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association
(NEKOWSA)
in Vermont announced the ongoing
Saturday Clubhous Swim Series
in
Lake Memphremagog, Vermont in 2022. White explains, "Born out of our response to Covid-19 during the summer of 2020, The Saturday
The Saturday Clubhous Swim Series offers timed and untimed swims of 2-, 3.3-, 4-, 6.5- and 10.1-mile courses in Lake Memphremagog, Vermont under the direction of NEKOWSA founder Phil White.  Last month, Amy Craigen, Polly Madding, and Laurie Craigen finished their solo marathon swims.
Mathew Church beat Ryan Pope in the Willoughby Swim as part of the NEK Swim Week in Vermont.
