Thank God It’s Friday
Event director Kitty Tetreault and the volunteers of the Swim Across America Boston Harbor Swim are looking forward to a big day next Friday.On Friday, their 22-mile open water swimming relay around the Boston Harbor Islands brings together 75 swimmers and a massive fund-raising effort on behalf of the Perini Quality of Life Clinic at the Dana-Farber Hospital and Mass General Hospital for Children.
The swimmers spend time swimming in between two large escort boats while socializing and gazing at the Boston skyline and ocean horizon. For an open water swimmer, it is one of the most magnificent ways to spend a leisurely Friday during summer.
Towards the end of the event, all the swimmers jump off the boats and swim to shore to join their family, friends, and donors of one of the largest charity swims in America.
For more information on Swim Across America and its unique fund-raising partnership with the Mass General Hospital for Children and the Dana-Farber Hospital of the Harvard Medical School, visit here.
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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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