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Tuesday Aug 25, 2009

5 Great Lakes = 1 Great Swimmer

On Monday August 24th 30-year old teacher and swim coach Paula Stephanson of Ottawa, ON became only the second person to swim all five Great Lakes; the first was Vicki Keith who did it in 1988. Paula completed her 55-K swim of Lake Michigan in 25 hours, 38 minutes.

Pre-Swim Story in the Ottawa Citizen:

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Ottawa+teacher+takes+fifth+Great+Lake/1914140/story.html

CBC news:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2009/08/25/ottawa-090825-paula-stephanson-great-lake-swimmer.html

Open Water Chicago website - lots of links, including liveblogging updates during the swim, and a video clip of Paula:

http://openwaterchicago.com/2009/08/11/hey-chicago-please-support-distance-swimmer-paula-stephanson/

Vicki Keith's webpage:

http://www.penguinscanfly.ca/penguinscanfly/index.cfm?page=vicki_about

Posted at 07:49PM Aug 25, 2009 by Diana Smith in General  |  Comments[2]

Comments:

Another link to this story on MoreCanadian.com ?Vickie Keith did it and now so has Paula Stephanson. On Monday night after completing her swim across Lake Michigan, Stephanson, a 30-year-old teacher from Ottawa, became the second person to ever swim all five Great Lakes" http://www.morecanadian.com/2009/08/great-swimmer/

Posted by marco on August 26, 2009 at 01:10 PM ADT #

Although it's not yet fully updated with the photos from paul's 5th swim, you might like to cehck-out the extra information at: http://soloswims.com/paula.htm All of Paula's swims were monitored by a Swim Master, Bob Weir, from Solo Swims of Ontario.

Posted by Bryan Finlay on September 11, 2009 at 11:17 AM ADT #

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