Middlesex, N.Y. (WHAM) — Eight friends and fellow swimmers from Rochester came together after 40 years to swim lengthwise across Canandaigua Lake.
Middlesex, N.Y. — Eight friends and fellow swimmers from Rochester came together after 40 years to swim lengthwise across Canandaigua Lake.Gary “Lumpy” Austin, Mike Fedoryshyn, Tom Gallagher, Jan Stancampiano, Scott Kozlowski, Nancy Salatino, Mark Casparian, and Herb Rice swam in a lengthwise relay across Canandaigua Lake starting on Saturday morning.
Four swimmers on both ends of the lake jumped in, and swam towards each other in relay; eventually meeting near the middle of the lake. The swimmers finished in just less than four and a half hours. "We were like ‘Oh yeah we can swim Canandaigua Lake,' recalled Nanci Salatino of Greece, one of the original swimmers. "None of us really thought it would happen but then it did."
"We’ve all been friends for forty-plus years now," said Austin. "One lives in Massachusetts, one lives in South Carolina, they both came in for the swim today."
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