Swim the Fish turns into (mostly) virtual race
HEIDI DESCH | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 5 years, 4 months AGO
Swimmers make their way into Whitefish Lake Saturday morning for the Swim the Fish. The event typically draws dozens of swimmers, but this year it moved primarily online with swimmers competing on their own due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A group of seven swimmers still gathered Saturday morning to swim the 1-mile and 2-mile races together for the event that’s a fundraiser for The Wave. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Carrie Jacobs swims in the Swim the Fish event Saturday off City Beach at Whitefish Lake. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Hillary Hanson swims Saturday morning in the Swim the Fish event at Whitefish Lake. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Heidi Desch is features editor and covers Flathead County for the Daily Inter Lake. She previously served as managing editor of the Whitefish Pilot, spending 10 years at the newspaper and earning honors as best weekly newspaper in Montana. She was a reporter for the Hungry Horse News and has served as interim editor for The Western News and Bigfork Eagle. She is a graduate of the University of Montana. She can be reached at [email protected] or 406-758-4421. | August 12, 2020 1:00 AM
The annual Swim the Fish typically draws dozens of swimmers to Whitefish Lake for the open water swim event.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s event moved primarily to virtual participation with swimmers completing the race on their own schedule in a pool or in a lake.
A group of seven swimmers did still meet at City Beach Saturday morning, on the day the event had previously been scheduled, to complete the race at the same time.
The race is a choice of either a 1-mile open water swim or 1500 meter pool swim.
The swim is a fundraiser event for the Wave’s scholarship fund.
Carrie Jacobs, swim coach at the Wave, said about 50 people signed up for the race.
Participants have until Aug. 16 to complete and record their own time before unofficial race result winners will be announced.
For more information, visit http://www.whitefishwave.com/swim-the-fish/.
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