The Doctor Is In The House Of Molokai
Photo courtesy of Jeff Kozlovich and Steve Haumschild, Molokai Channel, Hawaii. Dr. Tom Hackett knows sports very well.
He has served as a team physician to the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Sparks, Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Kings, Anaheim Ducks and Los Angeles Galaxy professional sports teams. He also serves as the head team physician for the USA Snowboard Team as well as a team physician for the US Ski Team. His dryland duties also include providing medical advice to the Colorado Rockies baseball team and the American Mountain Guides Association.
But he has also been a carpenter, a ski patroller, mountain guide and archaeologist, mountaineer, guide, and ski patrolman with experience in wilderness medicine and rescue.
So he knows the wilderness including what it takes to cross the English Channel.
Now he is really stepping it up into the wilderness as he left the beach on Molokai Island last night at 6:24 pm as he swim to Oahu on a Molokai Channel crossing.
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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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