Peter & Geneve Channell Honored By Vermont Hall Of Fame
Courtesy of Charlotte Brynn, Newport, Vermont.
Peter Channell and Geneve Channell will be honored by the Vermont Open Water Swimming Hall of Fame on July 26th.
The Honor Contributors Administrators and Crew are members of the VTOWSHOF Class of 2019, along with Jennifer Dutton and Kristian Pearson.
For more information about the induction ceremony in Newport, Vermont,, or to send the Channell’s a congratulatory message, email Charlotte Brynn at cbrynn@theswimmingholestowe.com.
VTOWSHOF Chairperson Brynn described the 69-year-old Canadian open water swimming volunteer and member of the Kingdom Shore Crew in an induction statement, “Kristian Pearson, Peter and 65-year-old Geneve of Stanstead, Quebec together have been the muscle, the wheels, and the organization behind all of NEKOWSA’s swims from the very first Kingdom Swim in 2009.
They have been contributing to these swims as they have grown from 1 day to over 15 days, from 1 lake to 8 lakes, from 1, 3, and 10 miles to 25 miles and everything in between, and from 100 swimmers that first year to several hundred each year.
Whatever needs to be done to make these swims happen, they have been doing it for over a decade. Timing, recording and reporting times, registration, waiver and release, t-shirt pick-up and distributions, set up, lunch, piloting and crewing night and day on Lake Memphremagog, standing watch overnight at Georgeville, greeting and monitoring swimmers at the finish, setting buoys, Lacing the Woodals, grabbing the pizza, steaming the corn, trailering and launching boats, escort boat setups in Magog, burger delivery in Georgeville, jerky pick-up at Brault’s, maple syrup pick-up at Couture’s, whatever has needed to be done, they have done it with grace and smiles and steady determination and attention to ‘git er dun.’
These dedicated, hard-working and caring contributors are the first to arrive, the last to leave and carry the warmest smiles open water swimmers and kayakers could hope to see. Ten years. 80 swim events cumulatively totaling 752.8 miles. They’ve been at the core of it all. True unsung heroes.”
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