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High School Swimmers Win SWIM Across the Sound Marathon
A team of Hopkins School students won the race and set a record as being the fastest team since the event's inception.
A team of six high school students, who raised a total of $8,247 which included three girls and three boys ages 15 to 16, from Hopkins School, won the SWIM Across the Sound event and set a new course record, swimming the 15.5 miles across the Long Island Sound from Port Jefferson, New York to Bridgeport Harbor in 5 hours, 54 minutes and 32 seconds on July 25.
That time is the fastest the course has been swim since the event’s inception, according to Jo-Ann Daddio, mother of one of the winning teenagers Katharine Larsen, of Milford.
They were participating in the 28th St. Vincent’s SWIM Across the Sound to raise money for cancer patients, according to a press release.
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St. Vincent’s Marathon swimmers often swim in support or memory of a friend or loved one. Others choose to take on the challenge to help alleviate the suffering of someone they’ve never even met. The money raised from pledges goes to St. Vincent’s SWIM Across the Sound, which helps cancer patients and their family deal with the plethora of non-medical challenges that cancer brings and that insurance does not cover.
St. Vincent’s SWIM Across the Sound is a charitable not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization run by the St. Vincent’s Medical Center Foundation of Bridgeport. Since 1987, the SWIM has had a unique niche helping individuals and families struggling through the difficult changes that cancer brings with it.
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The SWIM serves approximately 30,000 people annually by providing over 45 programs, including cancer education, screening, prevention and support programs at low- or no-cost for the uninsured and underinsured. In addition, the SWIM helps individual cancer patients on a case-by-case basis with specific financial assistance, funding of wigs and prostheses, medication assistance, free transportation to treatments and appointments, day-care scholarships, support groups and more.
For more information, contact the St. Vincent’s Medical Center Foundation at (203) 576-5451 or visit their website.
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