Blind swimmers to complete Alcatraz Invitational
From: AZcentral.com - 09/29/2013
By: Amy B. Wang

Three Arizonans braved the choppy currents and frigid waters of San Francisco
Bay on Sunday to become the first blind swimmers to complete the Alcatraz
Invitational.

The swimmers were Max Ashton, 17, a senior at Brophy College Preparatory in
Phoenix; Katie Cuppy, 19, a freshman at Northern Arizona University; and
Tanner Robinson, 25, a recent graduate of Arizona State University.

Each flanked by guide swimmers who served as human “bumpers,” the three leapt
off a boat near Alcatraz Island at about 9 a.m. Sunday and swam the 1 1/2
miles to the foot of the Hyde Street Pier, which took about an hour.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/20130925alcatraz-invitational-blind-swimmers-arizona.html

Links:
Blind swimmers compete in California: 3 sightless athletes swim from Alcatraz
  to SF (with video 1:21) 
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoenix/blind-swimmers-compete-in-california-3-sightless-athletes-swim-from-alcatraz-to-sf

Visually impaired Valley swimmers to take on Alcatraz
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoenix/visually-impaired-valley-swimmers-to-take-on-alcatraz