Dear Friends,

This year marks the fifteenth swim since Swim Across America was launched in Baltimore. To date, Team SPLASH alone has raised $909,194,000. The Swim Across America Lab at Johns Hopkins, funded by this swim, supported the clinical trials for the ground breaking and life saving cancer drug - KeyTruda.

This year, Swim Across America Baltimore will fund a series of new and exciting research projects that will explore immunotherapy for metastatic pancreatic cancer, tumor environments of high grade neuroendocrine carcinomas, subtypes of prostate cancer for better outcomes and relapse factors of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL).

As our team members and donors know, Team SPLASH was formed to honor our son Alec who died on July 9, 2012 and who was a dedicated supporter of Swim Across America. SPLASH stands for Special People Like Alec Swimming for Hope. On this team we are so thankful that we are able to continue to support our inaugural honoree Pat Dayton, the poster child for cancer research. Pat is now twenty years out of her diagnosis and we are incredibly hopeful for decades of more good health to come.  

We welcome you to join our team as open water swimmers, pool swimmers, volunteers and donors. 

We hope you can join us in this very important and memorable event.