Venetian eSplash 10.23.2014

40 Mile Swimmers Swim Near Greenland

The 2014 swim season saw 72 swimmers participate in the 40 Mile Swim Challenge, with  39 swimmers achieving or exceeding their 40 mile goal. Those are the people you’ll see around town sporting their attractive blue and white hoodies in this beautiful Fall weather.

 jessica

Top swimmer this year was Jessica Landisman-Williams, swimming an astounding 191 miles between May and the end of September. Look for her name on the plaque in the entrance kiosk. Coming in second was Jessica Richardson, swimming 147 miles. The rest of the top five:

  • Laura Doonan @ 122 miles
  • Rick “the Shark” Alembik @ 93 miles (All but 3 laps without the use of swim fins!)
  • Janet Fath @ 85 miles

In spite of frequent thunder and rainstorms, Venetian members of the 40 Mile Challenge swam a total of 2404 miles this past summer, just shy of last summer’s 2497. That’s enough to get us just off the coast of Greenland, or to the northern section of Vancouver Island, BC, or just south of Quito, Ecuador, or through the middle of Venezuela, or the middle of the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans….

Other swimmers achieving or exceeding 40 miles this summer:

Juliet  Mavromatis      Liny Grabbe     Ken Nuttall     James Coblin

Nancy Anastasiades  Libbie Banks   Linda Rathje   Tony Fiore

Robin Rock    Rachel Fiore     Joanne Hauserman   Georgia Ashbaugh

Sam Brown    Terry Kruzan     Jimmy Lockhart        John Duffield

Kendall Hamilton   Elizabeth Lide  Aaron McClennan     Jim Harvey

Laura Moore    Lynn Borsuk     Michael Simon       Michael Purser

Rob Smulian    Maya Hahn    Warner McConaughy   Nick Cortese

Kreton Mavromatis     Missy Douglas   Marcia Borowski    Rob Pope

Margaret Doonan Pierce

 Open House for Laura Quade

Laura, Preston, Patrick (from afar) and I would like to thank everyone for their support during Laura’s recovery. I can’t tell you how much it means to have such caring people in our lives! That being said, we are having an informal drop by for a visit and snack on November 1st from 1-4 p.m. at The Quades, 222 Winnona Dr., Decatur.  (From Jean Quade)

Future Events

Monday Nov 10           Board of Directors Meeting 7pm 150 E Ponce DeLeonAve

Submitted by Nick Cortese, communications@venetianpools.org

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