Rye Swimmers Raise $33K For Swim Across America

RYE, NY — Swimmers at the Westchester Country Club and the Coveleigh Club made waves against cancer by raising $33,000 for local cancer research, prevention and treatment.

51 swimmers participated in the Westchester Country Club swim on July 15, and 41 took part in the Coveleigh Club swim on July 19. The children who swam at these two events were specifically supporting kids with cancer.

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 Swim Across America Long Island Sound chapter was founded thirty years ago with only 17 swimmers, who raised $15K for the cause. Since 1992, the chapter has grown to be the organization’s largest. The community of swimmers now have raised over $25 million dollars to help save lives.

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.