Donner Lake is listed as 2.7 miles but some of the swimmers wearing GPS show it being as long as 3.0 miles.  Either distance, it's one of most beautiful swims you can do anywhere in the country.  

​Thanks to Sierra Nevada Masters for hosting this swim for the past 34 years.

Here are CRUZ results from the swim..

WOMEN:
Coach Rainey Graeven:  1:11.04  6th place 25-29 

Tesla Profumo:   1:00.37  2nd place 35-39
Allison Athens:   1:15.15  6th place 35-39

Sarah Jordan:   1:13.42  3rd place 40-44
Elle Washburn:   1:41.34   10th place 40-44
Shaggy Strubing:  1:50.04  14th place 40-44
Alice Ma:   1:50.14  15th place 40-44

Cyndy Hertzer:   1:05.41  NATIONAL CHAMP    45-49
Marta Bechhoefer:  1:16.55  9th place  45-49
Crystal Obregon:  1:39.49  22nd place  45-49 

Heidi Troutner:  1:32.50  21st place  50-54
Jillian Chelson:  2:15.25  36th place  50-54
Lori Bradshaw:  2:19.14  37th place  50-54
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Linda Locklin:  1:12.09  NATIONAL CHAMP 60-64
Jan Sollom-Brotherton:  2:07.25  9th place  60-64

Many CRUZers swam in both races.  Full results are posted at the following links:

Roughwater (1-mile) Swim here
Cruz Cruise (2-mile) Swim here

The sun came out for the Roughwater Swim, and it was a very quick sprint around the end of the pier.  

Coach Galen finished 5th overall (18:36), and Wesley Whittlesey was 10th overall (19:17). Cyndy Hertzer was our first CRUZ finisher for the women (21:31).  Pierre Meunier was first wetsuit CRUZ male to finish (17:13) and Hilary Walecka our first wetsuited woman (23:29).

Cyndy was also the first CRUZ woman to finish the 2-Mile Cruz Cruise (52:16), and Bridget Lyons was the first wet suited female CRUZer to finish (54:31).

John Chapman (4th overall, 45:53) and Greg Lindahl (8th overall, 47:59) were the first CRUZ men to run up the beach and cross the finish line.  Cheers to them!

​And cheers to Jan Sollom-Brotherton for showing 
tremendous fortitude in completing the One-Mile Swim and getting around the pier in 38:55.

Special congratulations to Alida Canale for swimming both swims and, on the 2-miler, remaining determined and focused for an hour and thirty-six minutes to finish her swim.  Tom Canale finished in an hour and twenty-three minutes and claimed that he would have been ten minutes faster if he hadn't had to wrestle a sea lion blocking his way on his second trip around the end of the pier.  Anyone get pictures of that because there's a rumor that he got a grip on it and rode it to the finish!