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Pace Swimming and Diving Team Helps Raise $3,000 for Swim Across the Sound

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PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y.- Six members of the Pace Swimming and Diving team helped raise $3,000 as they participated in the Swim Across the Sound event on Saturday, August 3.

The team of Alexis Chocianowski (Cambria Heights, NY/Mary Louis Academy), Matt McCann (Monroe, NY/Monroe-Woodbury), Nick Targonski (Trumbull, CT/Trumbull), Zacchary Filanova (Amsterdam, NY/Albany Academy), Thomas Virgona (East Rockaway, NY/Lynbrook), and Kaitlyn Siriano (Shelton, CT/Shelton) placed second in the event with the money raised benefitting St. Vincent’s Foundation to use to support cancer patients and their families.

The participants swam 15.5 miles starting in Port Jefferson, New York across Long Island Sound and finishing in Bridgeport, Connecticut, which benefitted the St. Vincent’s Foundation to use to support cancer patients and their families. The swim took them over 9 hours and they battled the elements with rainy weather, jellyfish, and 4-5 foot seas.

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