Jenna Lambert swims lake despite cerebral palsy

Using only her arms,
teen swims across Lake Ontario
by Hayley Mick, for Globe and Mail
from Kingston, Ontario, Canada

"As she neared the shore of Lake Ontario yesterday and the crowd began to roar, Jenna Lambert found the energy, after 32 hours of swimming, to push a little harder.The teenager switched from the slow, freestyle strokes she'd used for 32 kilometres, and in eight powerful butterfly strokes propelled herself to a silver walker half-submerged in the water and slowly came ashore. With that heroic move, the 15-year-old from Kingston became the first disabled woman to swim across Lake Ontario. Jenna, who has cerebral palsy, swam from Baird Point, N.Y., to her Ontario home town using only her arms."

According to the CBC, "Lambert made the 32-kilometre crossing to raise money for her swim club — the Penguins — in Kingston, and to raise awareness of just what people with disabilities can accomplish.

"I'm doing this for all of the Penguins, and all of my friends," she said, "to be able to influence the lives of kids with disabilities. It's such a great feeling.""

Photo from CBC web site, no attribution