Thank you for making the 2008 SAA event a huge success! 

Greenwich swimmers, volunteers and supporters: Thank you for a fantastic event and a fabulous kick-off to the 2008 Swim Across America season. The weather was perfect, the water was still and over 100 Greenwich swimmers raised almost $200,000. View our:

New for 2008..... we added a 1/2 mile swim option, in addition to our mile-and-a-half swim which will begin at Greenwich Point (Tod’s Point) and head north to the serene shore of our beneficiary’s headquarters.

Swimmers, boaters, kayakers, sponsors and volunteers made this event a huge success!  Swim Across America is proud to team up with the Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy (ACGT).  In 2001, Edward and Barbara Netter founded ACGT -- the nation’s only foundation dedicated exclusively to funding cancer gene therapy research.  ACGT's extremely sophisticated research supports different approaches to gene therapy and makes critically important discoveries as researchers try to realize an effective alternative to the treatment and management of cancer.

For more information, contact Jacque@swimacrossamerica.org

 Thanks to everyone for making the inaugural 2007 Greenwich Swim Across America event such an overwhelming success! We had an ideal day on June 23rd with blue skies and smooth waters. With almost 70 swimmers braving the chilly waters, Swim Across America once again "made waves to fight cancer". Our combined efforts donated over $200,000 during this mile-and-a-half swim for the Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy.

Kick-off Party

The 2008 Swim Across America Greenwich Swim held a kick-off  party at Vineyard Vines on April 10th.  Over 70 people came out to show their support and get the momentum going!

Pictured here are Matt Vossler (President and Co-Founder of Swim Across America), Janel Jorgensen (1988 Olympic Swimmer and National Executive Director of SAA), Barbara and Edward Netter (Co-founders of ACGT - The Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy),  John Sites (Honorary Chair of 2008 Swim and Board Member of ACGT), and Craig Beardsley (1980 Olympic Swimmer and long-time SAA-supporter)