Category: Charity
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Cancer Surgeon and Team Train for Swim Across the Sound | WTNH News8
Too Legit to Drift is an all-star aquatic team led by St. Vincent’s cancer surgeon Dr. Jill Rubinstein. The squad is training at the Soundview Family YMCA to compete in Swim Across the Sound, a fifteen-and-a-half-mile charity marathon raising money for cancer patients.
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Swim Across the Sound Helps Cancer Patients and Their Families | WTNH News8
Swim Across the Sound has been helping cancer patients and their families for decades, providing financial assistance and support when they need it most. Millions have been raised over the years.
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‘Absolutely Baffling’: Aust Swimmers Banned From Thanking Gina Rinehart at Commonwealth Games | News24
Sky News host Rita Panahi says it’s “absolutely baffling” Australian swimmers at the Commonwealth Games are not allowed to thank Gina Rinehart. “The athletes are being told they cannot thank Ms Rinehart despite the fact that she pays a stipend, an allowance, to the swimmers that allows them to train, allows them to be world-class…
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Nearly 1,000 Swimmers Take on Long Island Sound for Cancer Research | The Manila Times
Nearly 1,000 swimmers participated in the 34th annual Swim Across America Long Island Sound event on Saturday, raising $2,501,258 for cancer research. The event included 630 open-water swimmers and more than 300 participants in pool swims held across Westchester County in New York. Among the open-water swimmers, 14 completed a 10-kilometer crossing of Long Island…
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Muskoka Woman To Swim for Crucial Cause | CTV News
Joy Jarvis is doing her 4th annual swim on Lake Vernon for the Huntsville Hospital Foundation.
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Former RTÉ Broadcaster Tracy Piggott Takes On Incredible 8-Hour Underwater Swim for Charity | Ireland AM
Former broadcaster Tracy Piggott joined Ireland AM to look back on her remarkable career covering everything from Olympic Games and Grand Slam victories to horse racing and rugby. Now, the former RTÉ presenter is preparing for an extraordinary challenge: an eight-hour underwater swim across Galway Bay in aid of the charity Sensational Kids. Tracy first…
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Coop Community Fund, Supporting Jersey Dips Swim Therapy | CICooperative
Meet Amy from Jersey DIPS Swim Therapy, a Jersey-based charity that uses the therapeutic benefits of warm water to support the health and wellbeing of our island community. Through swimming and water-based therapy, Jersey DIPS helps adults living with mobility challenges, recovering from injury or surgery, and those looking to improve their mental wellbeing, or…
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Swim Across America Motor City Mile Makes Waves To Fight Cancer | CBS Detroit
Dozens of swimmers made a splash at Belle Isle Friday morning for the 8th annual Swim Across America Motor City Mile, an open‑water charity swim raising money for cancer research at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center.
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Swim Across America Motor City Mile Raising Funds for Cancer Research | Click On Detroit | Local 4 | WDIV
Interview with Patrick Weiss, Swim Across America event director, cancer survivor.