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Show Swimathoners lap up praise at club fund raiser While other Park City athletes have been pounding the pavement to get in shape for marathons and triath-lons, triath-lons, a group of hale and hearty youngsters have been practicing in the water to test their mettle in the Park Meadows Country Club Swimathon held Monday. The Swimathon was organized or-ganized as a fund raiser for the PMCC swim team. Each of the 10 swimmers who participated was asked to recruit up to 24 sponsors, who pledged to pay each child a set amount of money for every lap swum in the two-hour time limit. No doubt many of those who pledged money figured that the 6- to 15-year-olds who participated couldn't really swim all that far. They figured wrong. The total amount of money raised has yet to be calculated, cal-culated, but one Country Club spokesperson quipped that while the kids originally planned to use the funds to buy team uniforms, "they may now be able to buy a team car." Even Coach Allen Ancell was surprised by the results. He had predicted that the strongest swimmer might squeeze out 150 laps in the two hours or nearly two miles. But even those that might loosely be considered the "weakest" swimmers exceeded his expectations. The fastest swimmer Monday Mon-day was 13-year-old Tim Ancell, who whipped off 200 laps. His efforts were closely followed by Stacy Colt, 12, with 184; Alaine Arenskov, 12, with 178; Stephanie Hirst, 15, Megan Holcomb, 11, Kara Glieden, 15, and Katie Turner, Tur-ner, 11, with over 150; Dax Shane, 10, with 112, and Kerry Ancell, 8, with 100. Special mention should be made of Josh Chin, who at the ripe old age of 6 managed 68 laps, or nearly one mile in two hours. Coach Ancell's comment that "each of the swimmers did an exceptional job," may be an understatement. |