An Honor Administrator is an individual who has been inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame due to their long-term achievements and behind-the-scenes organization of open water swimming competitions, associations, governing bodies, and events.
While Honor Swimmers may be more well-known and celebrated, it is the quiet hard work, meticulous management, and creative promotion of open water swimming that has long enabled the sport to survive and thrive.
From the early promotion of the Catalina Channel by William Wrigley, Jr. [shown below] to the more recent organization of the Olympic 10K Marathon Swims in Beijing, London, Rio, Tokyo, Paris, and Los Angeles by Sid Cassidy [shown above], these Administrators are relentless force multipliers.
Through their vision, planning, and expertise, their work as a single individual enhances the collective work of volunteers and local communities that makes the sport what it is today.
Through the utilization of technology and database programming as Evan Morrison [shown below] has done with the Marathon Swimmers Federation or Julian Critchlow [shown below] has done with the English Channel Swim Database, their work has literally touched, educated, and motivated hundreds of thousands of interested swimmers, and helped media representatives, sponsors, escort pilots, and event organizers.
Through the establishment and hosting of marathon swimming camps by Ned Denison with the Cork Distance Week [shown below] or organizing annual professional and amateur marathon swimming races by Lello Barbuto and Luciano Cotena in Italy or Lynn Blouin and George Duthie in Canada, literally the lives of thousands of swimmers have been enhanced.
Each and every one of these marathon swimming force multipliers has helped create a sport with a fantastic past and an ever promising future.
International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Administrators
- James Anderson, USA
- Lello Barbuto, Italy
- Lynn Blouin, Canada
- Richard Broer, Netherlands (MSF bio here)
- Sir William “Billy” Butlin, Great Britain
- S.A. “Sid” Cassidy, USA (MSF bio here)
- Sri Chinmoy, India
- David Stevens Clark, USA (MSF bio here)
- Luciano Cotena, Italy
- Julian Critchlow, Great Britain (MSF bio here)
- William Forrest “Buck” Dawson, USA
- Ned Denison, Ireland (MSF bio here)
- Bob Duenkel, USA
- George Duthie, Canada
- Maurice Ferguson, Great Britain
- Bryan Finlay, PhD, Canada (MSF bio here)
- Dr. Benjamin Franklin, USA
- Drury Gallagher, USA (MSF bio here)
- Sam Greetham, Great Britain
- Joe Grossman, USA
- Christopher Guesdon, Australia
- Susanne Guesdon, Australia
- Colin Hill, Great Britain (MSF bio here)
- Pauline Jackson, USA
- Dr. Tim Johnson, DPS, PE, USA
- Linda Kaiser, USA (MSF bio here)
- Dr. Jane Katz, USA
- Sunny Lowry, MBE, Great Britain (MSF bio here)
- Dennis Miller, Fiji
- Jim Moran, USA
- Evan Morrison, USA (MSF bio here)
- Jerry Nason, USA
- Roger Parsons, Great Britain
- Val Parsons, Great Britain
- Dale Petranech, USA (MSF bio here)
- Ricardo Continentino Ratto, Brazil
- Francis “Frank” Richards, Great Britain
- Audrey Scott, Great Britain
- Ray Scott, Great Britain
- John Slater, Great Britain (MSF bio here)
- Neville Smith, South Africa
- Trevor Smith, Great Britain
- Vicko Šoljan, Croatia
- James Toomey, USA
- Marty Veen, Netherlands
- Carl Walker, Great Britain
- Billy Wallace, Ireland
- Johnny Weissmuller, USA
- Conrad Wennerberg, USA
- James Whelan, USA
- Ronnie Man Chiu Wong, BBS, JP, Hong Kong
- Doug Woodring, USA
- William Wrigley, Jr., USA
- Beth Yudovin, USA
- Major General Ahmed Zorkani, Egypt
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