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Dr. Penny Lee Dean
When it comes to marathon swimming, there are few people in the sport who are as influential as Penny Dean.  As an athlete, she looked at swimming channels as one continuous series of fast one-mile swims…swimming at an extremely high turnover for mile-after-mile, hour-after-hour. 
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Penny Lee Dean trained like few people before her had ever done.  Triple workouts in a day.  As a coach, she guided athletes and relays to world championships and world records. 

Even after reigning over the English Channel for nearly two decades, she advised another swimmer, Chad Hundeby, and helped him to break her own world record.  

As an administrator, she argued convincingly to develop budget and resources to support the sport.  As a race organizer, she helped establish an international competition across the Catalina Channel and guide national championships in the USA. 

As a native California, Penny now makes her home in New York, but her influence and words of wisdom still ring as true now as they did when she shattered the English Channel record in 1978 by 1 hour and 5 minutes despite less than ideal conditions. 
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Penny Dean stands tall in the sport as she was both a racer, world record holder and coach.  She won races in Lake Windermere in England, Lake St-John and throughout Quebec, Canada and around Atlantic City in New Jersey. She was the 1979 World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation’s world champion and still holds the overall Catalina Channel record set in 1977, one of the oldest world records in aquatic sports.  She set 12 overall world records in her illustrious career and was head coach for the USA national long distance team from 1984-1988.

Penny Dean is presently a Professor of Education and is most-deservedly recognized as one of the greatest marathon swimmers in history.    She is an author of one of the best selling open water books and was president of the College Swimming Coaches Association of America from 1985 to 1987.  

At her induction to the International Swimming Hall of Fame, Penny Dean was described as “…the tallest and proudest five-foot-two inch, 125 pound marathon swimmer the world has ever known.  What the world did not know was that she swam her way to victory with no anterior artery blood supply to her left arm.  She used the other part of her body for that - her guts.”  

It is our pleasure to welcome Dr. Penny Dean to Open Water Wednesday.

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