Deborah J. McDonald, Director and Producer of the feature documentary, 50 year old FRESHMAN: Suzanne Heim-Bowen, is two-for-two. The film about Heim-Bowen's obstacles and victories as a 50-year-old college swimming freshman has screened at two film festivals - and received awards at each. At the 2012 Indie Spirit Film Festival, McDonald won the Best
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Back in the English Channel swimming history in 1985, Suzanne Heim-Bowen did a 10 hour 11 minute crossing. 17 people successfully crossed the English Channel that year including some speedy crossings by Philip Rush who did a two-way crossing in 17 hours 56 minutes, Paul Asmuth who did two separate crossings
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Deborah McDonald, director and producer of the documentary film 50 year old FRESHMAN received the Best New Film Award at the 2012 International Aquatic History Symposium & Film Festival in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. McDonald's documentary film FRESHMAN is about International Masters Hall of Fame Open Water
Deborah McDonald who directed and produced the documentary film 50 year old FRESHMAN about International Masters Hall of Fame Open Water inductee, Suzanne Heim-Bowen of San Francisco, was awarded the Best Sports / Outdoor Feature in the 2012 Indie Spirit Film Festival in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The well-received film about the open water legend heading
Deborah McDonald directed and produced an independent film about International Masters Hall of Fame Open Water inductee, Suzanne Heim-Bowen. The film was selected to be shown at the 2012 Indie Spirit Film Festival on April 19th - 22nd in Colorado Springs, Colorado. 50 year old FRESHMAN Suzanne Heim-Bowen is the remarkable and unlikely story about how a
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Swimmers from all around Northern California and the Pacific Masters Swim Committee jam-packed into a meeting room in Walnut Creek, California to learn the basics of swimming a 10K. Open water experts Lisa Hazen (shown on left), Suzanne Heim-Bowen, Dave Brancamp, Morgan Filler and Suzie Dods explained how
Glenda Carroll announced that the Pacific Masters in northern Califoria is offering a 10K Open Water Workshop on January 8th that was immediately oversold.With more than four times the expected turnout, the 2.5-hour workshop filled a need for the open water swimmers of the San Francisco Bay area. The workshop includes how to approach training (both physical
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The acronym IMSHOF refers to both the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and the International Masters Swimming Hall of Fame. The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame honors swimmers, coaches, pilots, administrators and contributors who have excelled in open water swimming world while the
