Alumna Swims the English Channel
Melanie Kaplan ’08 swam the English Channel, fulfilling a dream since Middle School. In true Torrey fashion, she turned her accomplishment into a fundraiser, raising about $5,000 for Emily’s List, a PAC for progressive female political candidates.
Below is an excerpt from the feature in the La Jolla Light.
Melanie Kaplan, a 28-year-old graduate of La Jolla Country Day School, swam the English Channel from Great Britain to France on Aug. 22. The Channel Swimming Association posted her time for the 25-mile crossing as 13 hours, 6 minutes.
“I wanted to swim the English Channel since I learned about doing it in middle school,” said Kaplan, who swam as a distance freestyler at Country Day and at Wellesley College. “It was one of those things where I said, ‘next year’ every year.”
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