Snow has swum 1,000 miles

Mount Gilead High School swim­ming coach Brad Snow has become a mem­ber of the 1,000 mile swim club.
Snow reached the 1,000 mile mark by swim­ming most days on his lunch hour.
“When I started work­ing at Ariel Cor­po­ra­tion, I began tab­u­lat­ing my laps on a chart at the Mt.Vernon Y,” he said. “They have now added up to 1,000 miles. It took seven years to do this on my lunch hour. Prior to this, I have no idea how many miles I swam while com­pet­ing and work­ing at Rolls-Royce. We used to swim sev­eral miles each day in prac­tice, so that would have added up quickly. Dri­ving across town, chang­ing into my suit, div­ing in and then get­ting out in time to dry off and change into my work clothes — that all cuts into the time I actu­ally have to swim each day. Every lit­tle bit counts, though!“
A mile is 72 lengths in a 25 yard pool, so 72,000 lengths later, Snow’s chart finally filled up.
Snow’s fam­ily is a swim­ming fam­ily. Brad swam for Fair­mont State and still com­petes in U.S. Master’s Swim­ming on occa­sion. Snow’s wife Dina swam for Wit­ten­berg and has coached the Sum­mer Swim team in Mount Gilead. Daugh­ters Brae­lyn and Bri­anna are also swim­mers.
Brae­lyn, a 2010 MG grad­u­ate, was a four-year let­ter win­ner and team record holder. Although there is no swim team at col­lege, she still works out and did very well at the recent MGHS vs. Alumni meet. Bri­anna is cur­rently a swim­mer for MG where she is a var­sity let­ter win­ner and a mem­ber of a record-setting relay.
Snow plans to keep swim­ming the rest of his life. “I took a long time off after swim­ming in col­lege but once I got back into it I just fell in love with it all over again.”

Posted by Randa Wagner on Mar 14 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.