By Terin Frodyma on SwimSwam
The Lifetime Northern California Swim Membership performed host to the sixth annual Thanksgiving Thousand ‘Swim to Feed the Hungry’ meet, operating as a charity meet that brings in youth space swimmers for 500-yard or 1000-yard swimming occasions, whereas doubling as a fundraiser that raised $31,000 for Raley’s Meals For Households.
The primary version of the occasion started in 2020, created by Jesuit Excessive College Senior Cooper Zarro, with the intent to donate all proceeds to the group that feeds in-need households in Sacramento, Calif.
With the $31,000 complete from this yr’s occasion, the overall over the past six years has now surpassed $100,000.
The meet is run as a usually sanctioned USA Swimming meet, with all meet charges, entry charges, merchandise gross sales, and different miscellaneous donations going in the direction of the fundraiser. Final yr, the occasion introduced in a file $33,000 for households in want in Sacramento.
This yr’s occasion had 93 11 and over swimmers race within the 1000 free, and 10 10 and beneath swimmers race the five hundred free, bringing the overall quantity to 103 members.
Main the lads’s 1000 free was Life Time’s Jordan Ragland, turning within the quickest total time in 10:17.17. Ragland’s teammate, Lillian Cunningham, was the quickest feminine finisher in 11:12.43.
As for the five hundred free, Life Instances’ Ari Piyaratna (6:22.89) was the quickest of the boys’ opponents, whereas Brooke Curley (6:49.55) was the highest finisher for the ladies.
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