June 13, 2026
The Dolphin Club was happy to welcome both the South End Rowing Club and Tsunami Masters team to this year’s pride swim!
The swim was 1.7 miles from Yacht Harbor beach back to the club. Conditions were favorable and the flood was strong, giving swimmers a strong push back to Aquatic Park. The current picked up near muni pier, requiring some swimmers to fight toward the opening. Thanks to our excellent pilots, no re-positions were needed, and all 122 swimmers made it back to the beach on their own power.
The swim was just the beginning of the fun. Afterward everyone enjoyed a hot meal prepared by head chef Bobby Lu, who utilized South End’s kitchen as ours was still under renovation (we thank our kind neighbors for this accommodation!). Our very own Hal Offen kicked off the rest of the celebration with a speech, and we then had an electric drag show on the Dolphin Club dock featuring performers Ida Know and Tony OMFG.
Congrats to all of the swimmers and thanks are due as always to all of the pilots and other volunteers that made this event possible.
Lead Pilot: Nathaniel Berger, Lead Swim Commissioner: Alex Kroeger
Test Swimmers: Nathaniel Berger, Hal Offen, Peter Cullinan, Eliana Agudelo, Bobby Lu, David Spitzler
Test Swim Pilots: Kelsey Dean, Holly Reed, Margaret Keenan, Rebecca Tilley, Dominic Lusinchi, Stephen Hattwick, Ben Chun, Tom Bernard, Alex Kroeger, Heather Kremer, Madeleine Crow, Chris Clay
Volunteers: Bobby Lu, Sue Garfield, Wafaa Sabil, Erin Gasser, Elspeth Farmer, Kathy Wallace, Miguel Gonzalez, Joanne Sakai, Diana Pray, Kristoffer Milonas, Cynthia Cristilli, David O’Reilly, Karin McClune, Mike Thoreson, Jean Allan, Laure Darcy, Claire Trepanier, Sona Sondhi, Elaine Van Vleck, Diane Campbell, Chloe Noonan, Niki Ragone, Lindzy Bivings, David Spitzler, Denise Sauerteig, Laura Grubb, Connor Clark, Aude Bouagnon, Suzanne Heim, Chris Kelly, Eric Shupert, Keith Gray, Tracy Joyner, Stephen Balhoff, Sean Lavelle, Farrah Spott, Owen Convery, Fiona Donald, Greg Norris, Liam Ronan, Demian Quesnel, Lawrence Remstedt, Eric Schulz
Pilots: Tim McElligott, Aaron Smith, Nathaniel Berger, Alex Kroeger, Heather Kremer, Eric Wind, Maggie Lonergan, Kathleen Sheridan, Nanda Palmieri, John Thorpe, John Robiola , Virginia Waik, Callen Taylor, Dominic Lusinchi, Robin Hart, Tony Foe, Heidi Williams , Dmitry Kosorukov , Diane Walton, George Morris, Diane Jackson, David Buchanan, Jon Bielinski , Andrew Dunbar, Chris Kocher, Clay Tucker, Madhuri Yechuri, Eliana Agudelo, Stephen Balhoff, Karin Christenson, Aaron Dropp, Hal Offen, Brian Schwartz, Terry Horn, Danielle Hobart, Otto Williams, Kelsey Dean, Antoine Roux, Paul Irving, Niki Ragone, Jeff Hanak, Bobby Carp, Duke Dahlin, James Dilworth, Michael Tschantz-Hahn, Natazha Raine Bernie, Zach Margolis, James Alexander, Carrie Hamilton, MDG, Ben Sheldon, Jeff Everett, Jen Tse , Ellen Offermann, Anders Peterson, David Brown, Debbie Ezersky, Nancy Luna, Winnie Werther , Ned Viall, Barbara Schoeffel, Larry Southern, Seth Kenvin, Winifred Werther, Zeynep Sen, Savannah Miller, Abbie Wolf, Nathan Mee, Cartherine Lovazzano, Marissa Miller, Steve McDonald , Tim McDonald , Dennis Puglisi, Libby MacKenzie, Vanessa Marlin, Alice Ma
Swimmers: Suzanne Heim, Tracy Joyner, Waffa Sabil, Jakob Tanz, Keith Gray, Sean Lavelle, Liam Hennessy, Erin Doran, Blair Boudousquie, Calvin Sanders, Victoria Wu, Gary Uhouse, Shannon Navarro, David Ogden, Lynn Sondag, Jim Frew, Veronica Borges, Jessica Hickel, Margaret Keenan, Susan Blew, Holly Reed, Anne Diedrich, Daniel Gill, Megan Wachs, Erin Gasser, Vicki Stolberg, Denise Sauerteig, Nancy Hornor, John Hornor, Tayson Bui, Allan Flores, Robert Blum, Jason Prodoehl, John Schwenger, Louis Rogers, Ky-Cuong Huynh, Ania Burlinski, Katie Erickson, Richard Moyer, Tamar Besson, Lisa Carboni, Michelle Carson, Amy Blumenthal, Alex Solomon, Jonathan Biethan, Anna Kurczinak, Jon Christensen, Erin Hallett, Amy Brant, Joseph Dumont, Ashley Hazel, Elizabeth Mayer, Carolyn Hui, Sophia Hanley, Catherine Singstad, Julie Pearson, William Gramlich, Laura Grubb, Sarah Mulchand, Zachary Del Duca, Lindzy Bivings, Nathaniel Haynes, Radha Tomassetti, E Conner, Amanda Ernzer, Elizabeth Ozer, William Mee, Molly Blevins, Emily Ozer, Robin Rome, James Decker, Bob Cable, Kathleen Duffy, Julian Sapirstein, Thorsten Anderson, Angelika Joast, Fiona McCusker, Anya Durgerian, Jerry Flanagan, Joey Bennett, Kathleen Emerling, Paul Dooley, Rebecca Wolski, Shannon Stone, Rebecca Handler, Bonnie Jacobson, Aaron Rosenthal, James Glasnapp, Stephen Hattwick, Dominick Kirk, Chris Roberts, Lauren Berry, Addie Silveira, Ally Sillins, Georgii Barber, Susan Parker, Tim Doherty, Levy Gerzberg, Will Owen, Tiffany Lundeen, Thierry Nguyen, Humaira Ghilzai, Kristy Leffers, Mary Vieth, Brendan Horgan, Ernst Halperin, Chloe Noonan, Jean-Marc Nugent, Virginie Eskanazi, Seamus McGeever, Daniel Silva, Georgie Alcock, Connor Clark, Dave Holmes-Kinsella, Jennifer Ngo, Taylor Nanfria, Pete Neubauer, Dylan Woodhead, Ed Ontiveros, Craig Gawlick, Bridget Kroetz, Aditya Gupta