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@MizzouSwimDive Raises Over $11,000 for Swim Across America

COLUMBIA, Mo. - The Mizzou swimming and diving programs recently raised $11,474 for Swim Across America, an organization that hosts benefit swimming events across the country to raise money cancer research. Missouri took part in the inaugural St. Louis Open Water Swim at the Innsbrook Resort in Innsbrook, Mo., where the Tigers volunteered as angel swimmers to offer encouragement to other swimmers as they finished their swim.

COLUMBIA, Mo. - The Mizzou swimming and diving programs recently raised $11,474 for Swim Across America, an organization that hosts benefit swimming events across the country to raise money cancer research. Missouri took part in the inaugural St. Louis Open Water Swim at the Innsbrook Resort in Innsbrook, Mo., where the Tigers volunteered as angel swimmers to offer encouragement to other swimmers as they finished their swim.


Originally setting a fundraising goal of $5,000 for the event, the Tigers blew past that amount in raising $11,474, the highest amount raised by an organization at the St. Louis event. All proceeds raised by Mizzou will go toward cancer research at the Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis. 

Swim Across America is a 501(c)3 registered non-profit. SAA was founded in 1987 with a mission of hosting swims in communities where there is a major cancer research institution. Proceeds from the swim are donated to the community beneficiary so the beneficiary may conduct clinical trials and research that will lead to new treatments with a hope of curing cancer.