Fewer than 800 people have successfully navigated the waters of the English Channel since 1875. On July 29, 1994, former Yale swimmer Marcia Cleveland became the 445th. The journey -- 23.69 miles in choppy, 58-degree waters -- took nine hours and 44 minutes.
For many, a tedious, exhausting adventure of that magnitude would be the culmination of years of training and preparation. For Cleveland, it was just one of many achievements on a remarkable swimming resume.
Cleveland first learned to swim at 18 months and has rarely been out of the water since. A captain of the swim team at Greenwich High School in the early 1980s, her team went undefeated in her final two seasons as she earned All-America status.
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