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10-Completion, 15-Completion, and 20-Completion Awards
Alphabetical listing of all 4,792 finishers (747 kb, 80 pages)
pdf_s.gif (926 bytes)All 4,792 finishers by # of Bay Swim completions (700 kb, 80 pages)

There are 119 swimmers (2.5% of all finishers) who completed 10 or more GCBSs; only 30 of them completed 15 or more events.  Upon the 10th completion, 15th completion, or the 20th completion, swimmers receives a special "longevity" award from the Bay Swim Director to commemorate their endurance and commitment to the event.


Qualifications


All swimmers with 9, 14, or 19 previously recorded Bay Swim finishes will receive a specially inscribed award plaque upon their completion of GCBS 2008.  According to the Bay Swim Archives records provided on this web site (see above PDF files), the following swimmers are eligible for these awards on June 8, 2008, after they enter and successfully finish the event (see Rules):

5 swimmers who are eligible for the 20-Completion Award:
 #                    Name (Sex, Age on 08JUN08, City, State)
19            Douglas M. Frohock (M, 57, Sea Isle City, NJ)
19            Andrew Grannell (M, 61, Annapolis, MD)
19            Gerald W. Klein (M, 60, Moorestown, NJ)
19            Shirley A. Loftus-Charley (F, 56, Afton, VA)
19            John W. Protzman (M, 50, Arnold, MD)

12 swimmers who are eligible for the 15-Completion Award:
 #                    Name (Sex, Age on 08JUN08, City, State)
14            Viki L. Altomonte Anders (F, 58, Parkton, MD)
14            Robert F. Benson (M, 73, Silver Spring, MD)
14            Lawrence DeMille-Wagman (M, 56, Bethesda, MD)
14            David H. English (M, 57, Linwood, NJ)
14            Peter Ferrigno (M, 48, Crofton, MD)
14            Sharon M. Kelly (F, 36, Burtonsville, MD)
14            John C. Mason (M, 57, Bowie, MD)
14            Robert G. Matysek (M, 52, Mt Pleasant, SC)
14            Mark McGuire (M, 50, Royal Oak, MD)
14            H. Donald Messer (M, 77, Washington, DC)
14            Kurt Pfaff (M, 55, Riva, MD)
14            George E. Rohrer (M, 54, Greencastle, PA)

21 swimmers who are eligible for the 10-Completion Award:
 #                    Name (Sex, Age on 08JUN08, City, State)

9            Penny S. Bates (F, 46, Longmont, CO)
9            Doug Bergen (M, 44, Linwood, NJ)
9            John Broschard, III (M, 48, Hershey, PA)
9            Edward D. Brown (M, 55, Wayne, PA)
9            Mark Edmunds (M, 41, Rockville, MD)
9            Peter Garver (M, 46, Baltimore, MD)
9            Karen I. Hannam (F, 67, Alexandria, VA)
9            James L. Hogan (M, 58, New Market, MD)
9            Annette Holmgren (F, 43, Chester, MD)
9            Kathleen Mayan (F, 45, Westminster, MD)
9            James R. McFeeters (M, 50, Silver Spring, MD)
9            Janelle McIntyre (F, 42, Ellicott City, MD)
9            Erin M. Miller (F, 33, Washington, DC)
9            Michael S. Murphy (M, 49, Baltimore, MD)
9            Craig Nelson (M, 49, Chester, MD)
9            Jeffrey W. Peters (M, 34, Fairfax, VA)
9            Peter Reilly (M, 51, Alexandria, VA)
9            Joseph N. Russell (M, 56, Falls Church, VA)
9            John P. Shewell (M, 44, Blackwood, NJ)
9            John Shields (M, 61, Annapolis, MD)
9            Mo Siegel (M, 56, Piermont, NY)


Rules for Award Qualification


The inscribed Completion Award plaque recognizes officially recorded Bay Swim completions from 1986 to 2008.  This means that your name needs to be associated with a finishing time and a finishing place in the official Bay Swim results for each applicable year of record.  Paying the entry fee and not showing up or participating in the event and not finishing do not qualify as a completion.  For example, there are no records for the hundreds of swimmers who were pulled out of the water in 1991 and 1992.

If your name appears above, you have already satisfied the qualifications and you need to do nothing beyond completing another Bay Swim.   The appropriate award plaque with your name inscribed on it (as it's spelled above) will be presented to you after you finish your next GCBS.  If the spelling of your name is wrong, please contact:  bayswim@att.net (subject line of email: "GCBS Award Correction").

To find out how many GCBS completions are recorded under your name, download and search the PDF files at the top of this web page.  If you believe there is an error in these records, contact:  bayswim@att.net (subject line of email: "GCBS Award Correction").  Please do not hassle the Bay Swim Director or LIN-MARK --  they do not have these records.  In order to allow time for the inscribing of the award, please submit award correction requests before May 1st.

In order for a correction to be made, you need to be specific about the error.  For example, please provide the year, time, and place information that you believe is in error.  Such details can be found here.

A common correction may be a name change associated with a marriage.  There could also have been misspellings, mismatches due to common last names (e.g., Smith or Miller), or other glitches in the official results.  Errors could have also occurred upon transcribing the results to the electronic records on this web site.  If substantiated, these GCBS Archives records will be happily corrected. 

Hard copies of the original Bay Swim results as provided by the Race Director are on file for all prior years back to 1986.  They will be used to settle any disputes.  If anyone has copies of the official results for the Bay Swim events conducted by Fletcher Hanks or by Brian Earley in 1984 and 1985, please provide them and the data will be added these Archives (with a big "thank you").

Accounting practices and record keeping were not as rigorous in the early years of the Bay Swim as they have been in recent years.  There is a small chance that a swimmer may have completed a Bay Swim over a decade ago that did not make it onto the official record of the event.  Unless you can provide evidence of the error (e.g., a letter from Fletcher Hanks; case in point), such claims cannot be substantiated at this late time.  Sorry, but you needed to sort out such mistakes with the race officials at the time.

119 Swimmers with 10 or more Bay Swim completions
(1986-2007)
:
 #                    Name (Sex, Age on 08JUN08, City, State)
21            Rodney D. Peltzer (M, 51, La Plata, MD)
21            Maureen L. Rohrs (F, 52, Severna Park, MD)

20            Michael J. Doyle (M, 52, Pennsauken, NJ)
20            James F. Matysek (M, 48, Fairport, NY)
20            Thomas E. Matysek (M, 54, Joppa, MD)

19            Douglas M. Frohock (M, 57, Sea Isle City, NJ)
19            Andrew Grannell (M, 61, Annapolis, MD)
19            Gerald W. Klein (M, 60, Moorestown, NJ)
19            Shirley A. Loftus-Charley (F, 56, Afton, VA)
19            John W. Protzman (M, 50, Arnold, MD)

18            Brian Joseph Earley (M, 47, San Diego, CA)

17            Robert A. Axelrod (M, 60, Washington, DC)
17            David W. Brown (M, 46, Lightfoot, VA)

16            Andrew Courtney (M, 45, Camp Hill, PA)
16            Thomas M. Grubb (M, 52, Sparks, MD)
16            James S. Horwitz (M, 54, Fairfax, VA)
16            David A. McCulloch (M, 77, Richmond, VA)
16            Kristian Rutford (M, 48, Lincoln, NE)
16            Douglas N. Saar (M, 53, New Market, MD)

15            Robert D. Aitcheson (M, 61, Charles Town, WV)
15            Robert J. Astheimer (M, 54, Alexandria, VA)
15            Scott C. Belfit (M, 56, Bel Air, MD)
15            Willis C. Braswell, Jr. (M, 63, Arlington, VA)
15            Edward G. Dougherty (M, 50, Felton, DE)
15            Mike Lears (M, 60, Timonium, MD)
15            Bob Mizelle (M, 49, Rockville, VA)
15            Howard Polster (M, 66, Bethesda, MD)
15            Regina M. Russo (F, 53, White Plains, NY)
15            John R. Shrum (M, 59, Charlottesville, VA)
15            Robert R. Williams, III (M, 65, Severna Park, MD)

14            Viki L. Altomonte Anders (F, 58, Parkton, MD)
14            Robert F. Benson (M, 73, Silver Spring, MD)
14            Lawrence DeMille-Wagman (M, 56, Bethesda, MD)
14            David H. English (M, 57, Linwood, NJ)
14            Peter Ferrigno (M, 48, Crofton, MD)
14            Sharon M. Kelly (F, 36, Burtonsville, MD)
14            John C. Mason (M, 57, Bowie, MD)
14            Robert G. Matysek (M, 52, Mt Pleasant, SC)
14            Mark McGuire (M, 50, Royal Oak, MD)
14            H. Donald Messer (M, 77, Washington, DC)
14            Kurt Pfaff (M, 55, Riva, MD)
14            George E. Rohrer (M, 54, Greencastle, PA)

13            David A. Paltrineri (M, 46, Middletown, DE)
13            Jeffrey S. Davis (M, 56, Ellicott City, MD)
13            John T. Eubanks (M, 47, Sterling, VA)
13            Kevin Sayers (M, 49, Frederick, MD)
13            Paul A. Fetters (M, 54, Falls Church, VA)
13            Robert Huber (M, 59, Silver Spring, MD)
13            Wendy A. Busey Friedland (F, 51, Rockville, MD)

12            Paul Brabson (M, 47, Boonsboro, MD)
12            William Carnes (M, 55, Baltimore, MD)
12            Bill Conroy (M, 64, Crofton, MD)
12            Malcolm Cosgrove-Davies (M, 51, Arlington, VA)
12            Frank Fallon (M, 52, Warrenton, VA)
12            Ron S. Filler (M, 65, Alexandria, VA)
12            Andrea Haines (F, 60, Alexandria, VA)
12            Allen Hamers (M, 55, Lancaster, PA)
12            Rose M. Kehoe (F, 41, Arlington, VA)
12            Neil F. Medoff (M, 65, Reston, VA)
12            Patrick D. O'Connell (M, 56, Washington, DC)
12            Ronald Richard Roat (M, 43, Hockessin, DE)
12            Cheryl Ann Wagner (F, 55, Washington, DC)
12            Martin Wasserman (M, 66, Ellicott City, MD)

11            Michael F. Boyle (M, 56, Potomac, MD)
11            William B. Cummings (M, 69, Alexandria, VA)
11            Richard Denise (M, 52, Bowie, MD)
11            William L. Diggs (M, 52, Middletown, DE)
11            Mindy Lynn Murzda Gaines (F, 37, Columbia, MD)
11            Carlos Garcia (M, 54, Silver Spring, MD)
11            Gordon M. Gerson, Sr. (M, 71, Reston, VA)
11            David J. Glen (M, 56, Silver Spring, MD)
11            Alan Gruber (M, 52, Annapolis, MD)
11            Barney Heller (M, 54, North Wales, PA)
11            Phillip J. Hoge (M, 52, Crofton, MD)
11            Jack Iliff (M, 63, Annapolis, MD)
11            Russell J. Kominski (M, 34, Bel Air, MD)
11            Sandra Ford Luecke (F, 46, Columbia, MD)
11            Joseph Matysek (M, 51, Huntersville, NC)
11            Edward Perl (M, 43, Crownsville, MD)
11            Stuart J. Roberts (M, 49, Hollidaysburg, PA)
11            Richard J. Wallace (M, 60, Manalapan, NJ)
11            Rodney Williams (M, 62, Woodstock, MD)

10            Daniel H. Allen (M, 46, Powder Springs, GA)
10            Christopher M. Ames (M, 76, Cedars, PA)
10            Deborah S. Bond (F, 50, Kensington, CA)
10            Scott Breza (M, 37, Phoenix, MD)
10            Bruce Brockschmidt (M, 41, Mount Laurel, NJ)
10            David M. Brown (M, 56, Baltimore, MD)
10            William C. Caywood (M, 58, Gettysburg, PA)
10            Robert Dobry (M, 53, Baltimore, MD)
10            Paul N. Doremus (M, 47, Potomac, MD)
10            Jon Edmonds (M, 67, York, PA)
10            Tom Fallon (M, 50, Wilmington, DE)
10            Matthew W. Fetters (M, 47, Gaithersburg, MD)
10            David Gassert (M, 47, Camp Hill, PA)
10            Philip K. Gibbs (M, 63, Moorestown, NJ)
10            Joseph G. Giitter (M, 48, Rockville, MD)
10            Kurt A. Haglund (M, 49, Chevy Chase, MD)
10            Scott Haldeman (M, 46, Upperco, MD)
10            Raymond Harmon (M, 60, York, PA)
10            James H. Kegley (M, 50, Washington, DC)
10            David W. Kozera (M, 55, Towson, MD)
10            Robert G. Lazzaro (M, 58, Glenelg, MD)
10            Janice Mattson (F, 55, Pasadena, MD)
10            Thomas J. McComas (M, 46, Timonium, MD)
10            Kuni Mihara (M, 67, Mt. Laurel, NJ)
10            James Miller (M, 57, Powhatan, VA)
10            Edward E. Pagett (M, 63, Alexandria, VA)
10            Linda Paltrineri (F, 48, Forestdale, MA)
10            Sterling S. Pilette (M, 66, Reston, VA)
10            Louis Pisone (M, 37, Laurel, MD)
10            Brian Scanlan (M, 45, Greenwich, CT)
10            Amy R. Smith (F, 49, Annandale, VA)
10            Terry L. Smith (M, 68, Reston, VA)
10            William W. Treanor (M, 65, Washington, DC)
10            Teresa M. (Tess) Tulley (F, 47, Birdsboro, PA)
10            Stephen Wargo (M, 50, South Euclid, OH)
10            Emily Watts (F, 40, Sparks, MD)
10            Susan T. Wilkinson-Megaw (F, 53, Fairfax, VA)

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