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| 14-year-old Annaleise Carr swam across lake Ontario to raise funds for cancer kids. |
The Ontario teenager, believed to be the youngest person ever to swim across the lake, raised $115,000 with her 27-hour swim from Niagara-on-the-Lake to Toronto for Camp Trillium.
Less than 20 hours after she emerged from the water after her marathon swim, Carr stood before a bank of television cameras to talk about her feat.
"As I got into the water on Saturday I just kept thinking about Camp Trillium and what I was doing it for," she said.
"I didn't want to give up when I thought about how much the kids at Camp Trillium have been through and what they have to go through their entire lives."
Through the night the water started to become wavy and the swim got tougher and tougher, Carr said. When the morning light broke a pacer helped lift her spirits by making funny faces, she said.
"Then I started getting updates on how much money I'd raised and it was going up like crazy," Carr said.
"I got told $50,000 and I was already over my goal and I started swimming harder. I got told $60,000 and I didn't want to stop."
The tally kept climbing and Carr said she knew she couldn't stop.
"When I was about a kilometre away I could hear everyone and start seeing lights. At that time the current was really, really bad and it felt like I was going nowhere," she said.
"That's when I heard that I had gotten over $100,000. I was like really excited."
Donations for Carr's swim will send 115 children to camp for 10 days.
Carr, who is from the tiny community of Walsh in southern Ontario, said it took a while to convince her parents to let her do the 52-kilometre swim.
She wanted to help kids at Camp Trillium, but volunteers had to be 18 years old. The idea to swim across Lake Ontario started as a joke, but her parents got behind it once they saw how many rules and regulations were attached, she said.
Via Global News
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