Ezmee Jones (USA, 17, IISA bio here, @ezmeejones), who will enter the University of California Davis as a distance swimmer this August, recently returned home to Northern California.
While some graduating American seniors might take a European vacation, Jones had a different mission: representing the USA at the IISA 6th World Championship in Molveno, Italy where the water temperature was 1.8°C (35°F).
In the video below, she talks about swimming in such cold water temperatures, rewarming, competing, and her future in the sport of ice swimming.
Over the five-day championship schedule, she was very very busy, finaling in 9 different events over 5 days:
- 4th in the 100m backstroke
- 4th in the 250m freestyle
- 2nd in the 200m individual medley
- 2nd in the 50m backstroke
- 7th in the 100m freestyle
- 4th in the 100m butterfly
- part of the winning 4 x 250m mixed freestyle relay with her older brother Keaton Jones, Lisa Yamamoto, and Stephen Rouch
- 8th in the 4×50 medley relay with Keaton Jones, Mariah Reading, and Stephen Rouch
- 6th in the 4×50 freestyle relay with Keaton Jones, Mariah Reading, and Stephen Rouch
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