Orienta Beach Club Swimmers Raise $96K For Swim Across America

MAMARONECK, NY — A 'school' of 48 swimmers made waves against cancer by raising $96,000 for Swim Across America Long Island Sound at the Orienta Beach Club on July 22.

Proceeds from the swim will support the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the Columbia University Cancer Center, the Cancer Support Team, and Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Swim Across America Long Island Sound’s summer fundraising season has seven pool swims, which are taking place through August 5, as well as the 31st annual open water swim, which will be held in Larchmont on Saturday, July 29, from 6 a.m. to noon.

The Long Island Sound chapter has already raised over $25 million in total donations since its inception in 1992.

The fundraising activities of SAA-LIS have already had a profound impact. The chapter was instrumental in funding some of the most exciting cancer news last year with the announcement of a clinical trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering which was published in The New England Journal of Medicine and showed a 100 percent success rate in treating patients in a phase 2 clinical trial for advanced rectal cancer with dostarlimab, an immunotherapy treatment produced by GlaxoSmithKline. The clinical trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering was funded by early-stage grant funding from the Long Island Sound chapter.

About Swim Across America

Swim Across America, Inc. was founded in 1987 and has raised over $100 million for cancer research and prevention programs at the country’s finest hospitals and managed-care facilities. Since Swim Across America’s inception, it has grown from having a single event in Nantucket to 22 open water benefit swims across the country.