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Swimming 1-Hour Virtual Championship Together Creates a ‘Swamily’
The championship started in 1977 by a Masters club in Washington, D.C, that wanted to create a competition among teams and individuals from all over the country without incurring travel expenses. Participants did the event at their own pool, wrote their results on a 3×5-inch index card, and mailed them in to be recorded. It has since evolved into a virtual challenge, a format that still had success and participation during the pandemic.
Mark Vahradian is Making Waves in Hollywood
Mark Vahradian was well on his way toward a career as an attorney. After earning a degree in political science from Duke University, he was working his way through law school at the University of California–Los Angeles. He already had some connections in Washington, D.C., and a future in legislative law seemed like a safe bet.
The Art of the Escape
After quietly chipping away at their cell walls with spoons for more than a year, sometime after midnight on June 11, 1962, brothers John and Clarence Anglin of Donalsonville, Ga., and fellow inmate Frank Morris of Washington, D.C., silently slipped out of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary and drifted into San Francisco Bay aboard a raft made of raincoats. Their glaring absence, discovered the next morning when guards found elaborate dummy heads posing as the men sleeping in their beds, has been deemed the only potentially “successful” escape from the “inescapable” jail that played host to some particularly violent and fierce criminals during the mid-20th century.
Meet GTD Swimmer Nathan Dean
Nathan Dean is a pediatrician, specifically a pediatric intensivist. He works in the pediatric ICU at Children's National Medical Center in Washington D.C. Work can be very busy, and 20 weeks a year Dean works 80-100 hours. The rest of the year he is involved in clinical research related to traumatic brain injury. Dean is married and he has three children under the age of 10, so life is very busy, too. Dean has been swimming competitively since he was seven years old.
