Welcome to My Personal Page
Hi, I'm Armin Schneider. I am a 15 year old sophomore at Berkeley High School.
The goal of Swim Across America is to create hope in families and patients that are battling cancer. It started in 1987, and since then has raised over 100 million dollars to fund doctors in oncology and cancer-support care.
I think that is amazing. The amount of support and discipline that one needs just to be able to have hope, and be able to push through and beat cancer is outstanding. But the key word is support. No one can fight cancer by themselves, and each swimmer helps support them by fighting their own battle, swimming.
Swimming is in no way as hard as battling cancer, not even close. Although, it is a way to make it easier. Each swimmer that takes part in these swims realize that even if it is small, it makes a difference to the patient.
I hope you can help me in my journey to finishing this swim, and helping even just one or two people, because every action, no matter how small, makes a difference.