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string(2632) "The Rose Bowl Aquatics Center is calling athletes of all ages and skill levels to take part in a weeklong Swim-A-Thon to raise funds for Swim with Mike, a scholarship fund for physically challenged athletes. The RBAC will “kick off” the Swim-A-Thon on Friday, March 29 at 12:30 p.m. and conclude Friday, April 5th. Register online swimwithmike.org or pick up forms at the RBAC. When registering, be sure to write in your affiliation with the RBAC! “Swim in the morning, at lunch or in the evening – whenever it is convenient, “stated Chad Durieux, RBAC Head Coach, Masters Swim. “ Bring your school group, club or even swim with the Masters Swim Team! Reduce stress, get in shape and help a worthy cause at the same time!” Participants are encouraged to obtain sponsors and sponsors may pledge a flat rate or an amount per lap with no minimum required. Any donation is greatly appreciated and donations may be cash, check or credit card. Those who raise a minimum of $50 will receive a ticket to the Swim With Mike Barbeque event held on April 6th at USC . Those who raise $100 or more will receive commemorative items that may include: a T-Shirt, Goodie Bag, (Swim with Mike) 38th Anniversary Tile Coaster, Sweatshirt, Collectors Mug and Beach Towel. The RBAC hopes to raise $10,000 for Swim with Mike. “Mike’s story and commitment to helping others is remarkable,” exclaimed Kurt Knop, Executive Director. “It’s an honor to support his worthy cause, especially as he is a longtime RBAC lap swimmer. I hope that all members of the RBAC community will participate and help this great effort.” The Swim-A-Thon at the RBAC leads up to the 39th Annual Swim with Mike event on April 6th from 8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. at USC Uytengsu Aquatics Center and Howard Jones Field. This fun-filled day includes food, entertainment, celebrities, a swim clinic with Olympians, raffle prizes, massage center, silent auction and our highlight, the Masters workout at 8:00 am.
About the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center: The Rose Bowl Aquatics Center is dedicated to providing the finest aquatic opportunities through instruction, training, competition, therapy and recreation to all members of our diverse communities. Open 360 days a year, the Center includes two Olympic Pools, a Therapy Pool, weight room, conference rooms, locker rooms, café and aquatics merchandise shop. It hosts programs including water aerobics, warm water exercise, lap swimming, learn-to-swim lessons, diving and water polo, yoga and CrossFit.
For more information about the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center, visit "http://www.rosebowlaquatics.org""
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string(493) "The University of Arizona Swim With Mike Scholarship Recipients will help to put on a fundraiser at La Cocina as part of Tuesdays for Tucson to raise funds for Swim With Mike and the Physically Challenged Athletes Scholarship Fund. An awesome evening for an even better cause. Swim With Mike will receive 10% of all sales during the dinner hours. A fun time will be had by all.
Details about the 2019 Arizona event are to be determined. Check back for updates!
http://lacocinatucson.com/"
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string(284) "Swim With Mike helps young men and women who have been dealt a major setback. I'm willing to support them with this fundraising effort because they have to be willing to work hard and help themselves for this to work. And after doing this for 20 years, I can see that it works.
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string(346) "I am helping raise money for the Swim With Mike foundation because of all the help they provide to those with a spinal cord injury. Without their financial assistance, I would not have been able to attend college to obtain my bachelors degree. Raising money for this organization is my way of paying it forward to the next generation of students."
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string(7196) " A community wide event supporting the Swim With Mike Scholarship Fund.
Help Cole help other athletes no longer able to compete in their sports due to life-changing accidents better their future by receiving a college scholarship!
DONATIONS OF ANY AMOUNT ARE MADE BY CLICKING THE DONATE BUTTON, ABOVE. If you can't be with us on the day of and would still like to support this event, please make your donation today. THANK YOU!!!
Support our sponsors, please. We couldn't do this without them! You can check them out at RollwithCole.org . More are joining daily. You can join, too.
Contact us to become a sponsor, volunteer, or leader:
Kelly kellysydnor@aol.com or Cole colesydnor@gmail.com
Organizers: Cole and Kelly Sydnor "
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string(933) "I am raising money because I believe in the cause and have become very close to people this organization helps. I have played baseball for 17 years of my life, and could not imagine what I would do without it. I appreciate the game, and I have learned, while volunteering for this amazing organization, that it is not something that should be taken for granted. I have listened to multiple personal stories about athletes who go through a complete life altering occurrence and must find a way to cope with their injuries. Swim With Mike gives physically disabled athletes a support system to rely on and creates an easier transition post injury, and is an organization that I would want to be in existence if I could not play the game I love anymore. I understand how sports can influence and change a person's life, so I want to help out those who can no longer express their love for the game by playing it how they used to.
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string(149) "El Toro High will not be hosting Swim With Mike this year but is still actively supporting Swim With Mike. We hope to see you at USC, UCSB or UCSD."
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string(1641) "A Swim With Mike (SWM) scholarship changed my life.
I was paralyzed in a snowboarding accident when I was only thirteen years old. One second I was an active kid, playing basketball, riding mountain bikes, and snowboarding. The next second I was a quadriplegic, unable to move or feel anything below my chest. I struggled even to breathe. I broke my neck at the C4/C5 level and sustained a spinal cord injury. I spent almost four months in the hospital and when I returned home I had to learn a whole new way of life. I started high school using a wheelchair and I needed an aide to take notes and to help me get around campus. I studied hard and achieved a 4.3 GPA. I also went to physical rehabilitation every day after school to try to recover function and movement. Fortunately, I made great progress and I can now live independently. But I also expended all of my family's resources on uninsured medical expenses, leaving little for education.
Thankfully, I learned about the Swim With Mike scholarship fund. I started supporting SWM events in high school. Eventually, I applied to college and was accepted at USC and awarded a SWM scholarship myself. It was a dream come true. Last year I graduated with a B.S. in chemical engineering. In May 2019 I will receive a Masters in materials engineering. I am currently searching for a career opportunity in materials sciences.
I could not dream this big without SWM. Please help SWM provide scholarship funds for physically challenged athletes. You will change the lives of students challenged by paralysis, blindness, and amputation. Thank you so much for helping.
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string(2958) "Dear Friends and Colleagues,
A dear friend of ours was tragically paralyzed in a motorcycle accident in 1981. At the time of his accident, Mike Nyeholt was a collegiate All-American swimmer and our USC teammate. What started as a one-time event, thirty eight years ago, to raise funds to purchase equipment for our good friend has turned into a major fundraising campaign called Swim With Mike (SWM). SWM awards scholarships to athletes who have become disabled through an accident, injury or illness. Since its inception SWM has raised nearly $20M providing college scholarships to 218 recipients at 111 universities across the United States.
This year, the Furniss brothers are excited to share with you that Bruce is the recipient of The 2018 SWM Claire Snow Volunteer of the Year Award. In recognition of this distinctive honor and Bruce's 38 years of service as a founding and current board member, the Furniss brothers have established The Furniss Family & Friends Endowed Scholarship supporting Swim With Mike ! With your help, this scholarship will offer perpetual hope to student athletes who have experienced a devastating event leaving them physically disabled like our friend Mike. For SWM scholarship recipients, an education has proven to be the single most important element in continuing to live a productive and fulfilling life. A SWM scholarship not only provides the means to pursue a college education, but most importantly gives hope and support at a time when it is needed most.
The Swim With Mike event is a pledge-per-lap swim-a-thon which raises money for the Physically Challenged Athletes Scholarship Fund. In honor of SWM's 38 years of good works, we each intend to swim 38 laps on April 7, 2018.
Should you wish to sponsor The Furniss Family's inaugural endeavor, you can make a donation with your credit card by hitting the "Support this Campaign" button on this page.
Alternatively if you'd rather mail us a check for your donation, email us at furnissfamilyandfriends@gmail.com with your pledge and we'll insure you receive a bill for your pledge. Make your check out to “Physically Challenged Athletes Scholarship Fund" including "Furniss Family & Friends Scholarship" in the "for line" and mail it to:
Swim With Mike /3501 Watt Way HER 203B / Los Angeles, CA 90089-0602
You are also welcome to attend this year's event at USC's Uytengsu Aquatics Center on Saturday, April 7 from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and personally meet many of these remarkable athletes who have turned their lives around with the assistance of SWM.
Thank you for supporting our family's endeavor assisting this most worthy of causes.
With gratitude,
The Furniss Brothers
Chip (USC '73), Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
Steve (USC '76), Huntington Beach, CA
Bruce (USC '79), Villa Park, CA
Craig (USC '81), North Tustin, CA"
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string(937) "2.34 miles of open water swimming off of Waikiki Beach. The 49th Waikiki Roughwater Swim is one of the oldest and most iconic open water swims in the world. It was the inspiration for the Ironman Triathlon. The distances for the 1st Ironman Triathlon were derived from the three most grueling races held in Hawaii at the time. The 2.34 mile Waikiki Roughwater Swim, the 112 Around Oahu Bike race and the 26 mile Honolulu Marathon. Participants in the 49th Annual Waikiki Roughwater Swim will be encouraged to solicit sponsorships for their swim through www.swimwithmike.org or to make a direct donation during the registration process.
Open to: Swim entry at www.waikikiroughwaterswim.com All swimmers who are capable of swimming this distance in open water."
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string(852) "38 years later and still Swimming with Mike. It gets tougher each year but the scholarship recipients inspire me so I will get on with the training now. In honor of my 63rd year on earth and on May 31, my 63rd birthday I will swim 63 x 100s. Funds raised will go towards the Furniss Family and Friends endowed scholarship so that Swim With Mike can continue to fund scholarships long after the first generation is long gone.
If you don't sponsor me you will have to swim with me.
Many thanks for your support of Swim With Mike and the Physically Challenged Athletes Scholarship Fund. "
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In case you're not familiar with SWM, they are a non-profit that gives scholarships to student athletes who become physically challenged due to tragic injuries such as paralysis.
It has personal meaning for me because my brother Daryl was the recipient of a SWM scholarship after suffering a severe spinal cord injury while in college. I have seen first hand how difficult it is for an athlete like Daryl to transition to a life of previously unimaginable circumstances, yet how inspiring it is as they overcome countless obstacles and achieve huge successes.
Today Daryl is an awesome high school teacher and is constantly pouring into others. I am thankful for how SWM helped Daryl and other students like him.
I am not a great swimmer, but I am going to push hard for this and plan to swim at least 2 miles!
Your donation will truly make an impact, and is tax deductible in the USA.
Thanks for your support,
Eric Holmlund
Here's a couple pictures of me and my two brothers at last year's SWM fundraiser...
(The picture at the top of this page is of two my kids and their uncle Daryl, taken last year in Alaska. The video is a music video that I put together for a song written and performed by Daryl. He is also a talented musician and has recorded a few albums.)
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Register here or pick up forms at the RBAC. When registering, be sure to write in your affiliation with the RBAC!
“Swim in the morning, at lunch or in the evening—whenever it is convenient, “stated Chad Durieux, RBAC Head Coach, Masters Swim. “ Bring your school group, club or even swim with the Masters Swim Team! Reduce stress, get in shape and help a worthy cause at the same time!”
Participants are encouraged to obtain sponsors and sponsors may pledge a flat rate or an amount per lap with no minimum required. Any donation is greatly appreciated and donations may be cash, check or credit card. Those who raise a minimum of $50 will receive a ticket to the Swim With Mike Barbeque event held on April 7 at USC. Those who raise $100 or more will receive commemorative items that may include: a T-Shirt, Goodie Bag, (Swim with Mike) 38th Anniversary Tile Coaster, Sweatshirt, Collectors Mug and Beach Towel.
The RBAC hopes to raise $10,000 for Swim with Mike. “Mike’s story and commitment to helping others is remarkable,” exclaimed Kurt Knop, Executive Director. “It’s an honor to support his worthy cause, especially as he is a longtime RBAC lap swimmer. I hope that all members of the RBAC community will participate and help this great effort.”
The Swim-A-Thon at the RBAC leads up to the 39th Annual Swim with Mike event on Saturday, April 6th from 8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. at USC Uytengsu Aquatics Center and Howard Jones Field. This fun-filled day includes food, entertainment, celebrities, a swim clinic with Olympians, raffle prizes, massage center, silent auction and Kid’s Corner.
About the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center
The Rose Bowl Aquatics Center is dedicated to providing the finest aquatic opportunities through instruction, training, competition, therapy, and recreation to all members of our diverse communities. Open 360 days a year, the Center includes two Olympic Pools, a Therapy Pool, weight room, conference rooms, locker rooms, café and aquatics merchandise shop. It hosts programs including water aerobics, warm water exercise, lap swimming, learn-to-swim lessons, diving and water polo, yoga and CrossFit.
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UC San Diego - 9 th Annual - April 27 at Canyon View Aquatic Center
For more information, email Nancy Phillips at: phillipsn@mac.com
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• Turn right on Voigt Drive.
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Attendance is free. Let the Recreation front desk staff know that you are there for Gauchos Swim With Mike.
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Swim-a-thon
5 person team relay races
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Cannonball Contest
Swim Lessons
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Live DJ
Face Painting
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Lolyn Swimwear Sales
Silent Auction
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Show your support for physically challenged athletes!
Schedule of Events
To be determined and published
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9th Annual Swim With Mike Week at the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center
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Joe Hunsaker Campaign
Mitch Kreeger Campaign
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Mackenzie Langley Campaign 2019
Louis Smolensky Campaign 2019
NCL Trojan Moms For Mike Campaign 2019
Jake Olson Campaign
Jaryn Valdry Campaign
Katie Pasichuke’s Campaign
Rose Bowl Aquatics Center Campaign
Ross G. Simmons Campaign
UC San Diego Swim With Mike
UC Santa Barbara Gaucho Swim With Mike
University of Southern California
David Van Wagener 2019 SWM Fundraising
David Van Wagener Campaign
Cecilia Villarruel Campaign
Chase Wagner’s Campaign
Elizabeth Winston Campaign
Anne Yu Campaign 2019