Hand over Hand

KINGSTON, ONT. — 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.

From The Globe and Mail