Donner Lake Swim

WOW!!  Was the Donner Lake Swim popular this year with 400 swimmers signed up to do it.  Twenty-three CRUZers attended the swim to enjoy the only Pacific Masters open water event that is "one length of the pool".  This year the swim was designated by United States Masters Swimming as the National Championship event for a distance between 1 and 3 miles and CRUZ finished with 4 NATIONAL CHAMPS!  See results below.

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

MEN:
​Coach Galen    58.38    NATIONAL CHAMP    25-59

Bernard McGraw    1:22.53  20th place    45-49

Chris Tainty    1:03.46     2nd place    55-59
Dave DeCosse     1:04.23  3rd place    55-59

Matt O'Neil     1:16.19     9th place    60-64
Mark Young     2:20.50  18th place    60-64

Coach Joel     1:04.13    NATIONAL CHAMP    65-69
Scot Kendall     1:40.27    10th place    65-69