The 100 K club was started on May
3rd 2005. It requires 100 over and back crossings of Lake Cane to
become a member. There is no grand fathering in of previous crossings.
There is no time limit, you just fill out the official 100K log which is
available on the dock. Only complete crossings count, no credits are given
to partial crossings. When you complete 100 over and back crossings you
get the really cool AQUATICA 100 K CLUB hat shown below, you are immortalized with a bio about
yourself below and a halo of yellow goes around your name on the
AQUATICA wall of fame. Bios are listed in order of becoming a club member.
Lucky
Meisenheimer, M.D. OK it makes sense that the host swimmer would make it into the
AQUATICA 100 K club first. He has been doing the lake swims since 1989 and holds the
record for the fastest
over age Forty, time for a single crossing at 6:14 Lucky is a former masters national
champion and world record holder.....he is best known for his Guinness World
Record for the largest Yo-Yo collection and writing the book on yo-yo
collecting. Lucky is also a member of the Screen Actors Guild and has been in Ripley's
Believe it or Not for swimming 1/2 mile with his foot in his mouth. In
Addition, he's a pretty darn good Dermasurgeon.
www.OrlandoSkinDoc.comwww.LuckyRoseFilms.comwww.Yo-Yos.net (Alcatraz no wet
suit, Key West 12.5 mile, Hurricane Man, Cayman, 100K World Record Relay,
200Kclub, 500Kclub, coldest day record)
Nancy
Guinn is a regular at the lake cane swimming hole. She grew up in
Florida swimming for the Merritt Island High swim team and the ROCO Swim Club.
She has had Masters top ten national rankings and has held FL Masters State
records. She has been an age group winner of several open water swims.
She is also a real estate agent extraordinaire and shoots a mean shotgun.
(Alcatraz, Hurricane Man,100K World Record Relay)
Mike
Gagnier treks down each day from his home in Winter Park to challenge the
lake cane swim. A triathlete for ten years he has completed in multiple
races and has completed the Florida Ironman. Although he was a non-swimmer
when he started doing triathlons he has now competed in several open water
races. A graduate in engineering at the University of Florida he now works
for Lockheed-Martin. (Hurricane Man, Cayman,100K World Record Relay)
Mike
Marino He drives all the way from Altamonte Springs for our morning swims.
A triathlete Mike was one of the first twenty to sign the wall of fame back in
1999. He began swimming in ’99 to rehab an ankle sprain and just never stopped.
A Florida State Graduate he is an administrator for the Juvenile Justice
Program. He is a veteran of the now legendary Hurricane Dennis Swim of ‘05.
Mike swims with a knife, so don't grab him and make gator sounds. Mike was
the first to do 500 crossings, as promised, we rewarded him with a car...see
photo at right.(Alcatraz, 100K World Record Relay, 200K club, 500 K club)
Dave Tattersall lives in Hunters Creek and began swimming
just 2 ˝ years ago when he became a triathlete. He is a member of
the Freewheelers Cycling Club and he has completed a Half Ironman. A
cabinet installer extraordinaire he is the owner of Rightway Millwork. He is a
survivor of the Lake Cane Lighting Storm swim of '04. "The
green light
in the background is the underwater light...yes...our early morning swims start
for much of the year in the dark....gators have a harder time finding us" (Alcatraz)
Ron "Rolo" Davis finished his 100th
crossing, drank his bottle of champagne, took his 100K cap, and
disappeared off the face of the earth.
OK after a couple of year hiatus he reappeared and now has
earned his 150 crossing yellow cap. Ron is a remarkable treasure hunter
and is a champion in THing events. That's why we never see him on the weekends
he is always out THing. Ron's dog "digger" was the first dog to achieve Wall of
Fame status (200 Kclub)
Chris
Bolfing Grew up swimming in California for the Cabrillo Clippers. He left
the sport of swimming in high school only to return to open water swimming in
1990 to rehab a broken leg. Since that time he has raced in multiple open
water races including, Alcatraz, Donner Lake and Gatorman. A pilot
"Captain" for Continental airlines he was a former professional hang glider.
He finished as high as 4th in the world championships and held the world record
for the most continuous spins in hang gliding. (Alcatraz, Cayman,100K World
Record Relay)
Mark Myers is our first 100 K member in 2006. As an
optics physicist he specializes at Martin Marietta in infrared search and
tracking. He does not have a swimming background. Mark began swimming the
lake in 2004 but only going out 200meters and returning. Each time out he
would go a bit farther until in a month he was able to do the complete crossing.
Since then he has completed the magic 100 doing some doubles on the way. A
resident of Orlando since 1989 Mark frequently brings his two cheerleaders with
him to the swim. (Alcatraz, 100K World Record Relay, 200K club coldest day record)
Ted Strong is the first 70 year old to earn the
AQUATICA 100K club
cap. It might seem like quite an accomplishment but it pales when you
compare it to his other life milestones. A pioneer in the
parachuting industry (D-16) he has done well over 4600 jumps and is the CEO of
Strong Enterprises
the oldest and largest full line manufacturer of
general aviation parachute equipment in the United States . He invented the
tandem jumping harness and is the first person to drive a motor vehicle out of
an airplane, deploy a parachute, land it, and drive off without ever leaving the
drivers seat. He has hiked the completeAppalachian trail, flown a single engine airplane from
Orlando to Alaska, ridden a motorcycle across America and enjoyed the trip so
much he followed it by riding his bicycle across America. Yup Ted is one cool
dude! (Alcatraz, 100K World Record Relay)
Yuko
Matsuzaki is the first swimmer to enter the 100 K club with swimming only 10
days. That may sound like a lot but not if you compare it to her longest
swim at AQUATICA of 82 crossings (82 kilometers) in 30 hours of non stop
swimming. This set the new world record for the longest lake swim. Of course the rest of the story is that Yuko is a professional
marathon swimmer competing for Japan and is a member of the International
Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Having done marathon swims all over the
world in addition to a nonstop 24 hour swim at the YMCA Aquatic Center makes the
82K swim seem like another day on the job. Yuko also is a freelance writer and has
published one book in Japan on open water swimming. (Alcatraz no wetsuit,
Hurricane Man, Cayman, 100K World Record Relay, 200K club, 500K club)
Chuck
Tanner wins the award for living the furthest from the swim and making the 100K
club. Residing outside of Melbourne he lives 78 miles from the swim…that’s a
156 miles round trip. Chuck began competitive swimming at age 4 in Texas,
swimming through high school including our local Edgewater HS. Being one of the
few winter swimmers he has experienced just about everything Aquatica has to
offer, dark swims, cold swims, fog swims and storm swims. Chuck has led an
eclectic life, owning a landscaping company, being a charter boat Captain,
performing EEGs, managing a cycling shop and now working as a consultant for
Disney. So with all that life experience you would think he could figure out a way to swim a little closer to home…(100K
World Record Relay)
Sean McCormack is a lawyer and we still let him swim anyway....just don't bump
into him during a swim. He does workers compensation law at Alvarez, Sambol, Winthrop & Madson. A long time swimmer in the central Florida area
he was a former star and school record holder on the Oviedo High School swimming
team and also went on to compete in college for Florida Atlantic University.
Today he does triathlons and open water swims where he has had multiple age
group wins. (Hurricane Man,100K World Record Relay)
Cleve
Cooney is number lucky 13 in the 100K club. He is an experienced open
water swimmer and volunteer lifeguard. His big claim to fame is having
competed in The American Red Cross Volunteer Lifesaving Corp Meninak 3.5 mile
Swim held in Jacksonville, FL a total of twenty two times. He has won the
race 8 times. He is a life member of The American Red Cross Lifesaving
Corp having done over 2000 hours volunteer work. He recently completed the
12.5 mile Key West Marathon Swim. He lives in Altamonte Springs and
works for Florida Film and Tape. (Key West 12.5 mile, 100K World Record Relay)
Darren
Price is a
former NCAA All-American tennis champion at Rollins College. We have even seen
him try to use his racquet as a flotation device to help him get across the
lake. Being Australian, he occasionally goes on walkabout and is not seen at the
billabong (for us redneck Americans that's a swimming hole) for a while, but
always manages to find his way back. He lives for the workout that swimming
provides and has a goal of doing some ultra swimming events in the future.
Jerry Krannebitter made the 100K club on Christmas Eve 2007, which
is in some way sad that many of us have nothing better to do with our lives than
swim in a cold lake on Christmas eve morning. Jerry is an Orlando
triathlete who has completed The Great Floridian Ironman as well as several
marathons both running and roller blading as well at the Great Chesapeake Bay
swim. He is a "Generator Guy" with Zabatt Power Systems. Jerry is also a
former submariner working in the power plant of a nuclear sub "The Navy's
version of Homer Simpson". If you look close when Jerry swims in the dark
you can see a slight phosphorescent glow around his body, which is completely
different from the yellow glow that surrounds Yuko when she gets in cold water..(200K
club)
Geno
Augustin became the oldest 100K club member when he finished his 100th
crossing on New Year's Day 2008 at age 76. Geno is so old that when he was
a life guard in the 1940s he watched god filling the lakes by squeezing water
out of rock. Since none of us were alive then no one can dispute this
story. The cool story is Geno fell the night before his final crossing.
He swam his 100th crossing with a broken rib he found out later. Geno is the president of Wire Engineering Corp. which produces high
tech antenna systems. He has been doing this for the last 50 plus years so
it is unlikely he will stop any time soon. Geno lives on Lake Cane and
likes to party on it too. That's why no one swims late at night on the
holidays. (100K World Record Relay, 200Kclub, coldest day record)
David
Jones joined the 100K club on New Years day in 2008. He had in mind
this goal when he started swimming with us in October but he had to do 41
crossings in the last week to make it. The amazing part of the feat is
that David lives in Tampa and has to drive 76 miles to do the swim. What's
even more amazing is that he can convince his wife to let him do it. David
owns the RV manufacturing Marketing Co. in Tampa. He loves open water
swimming and his new goal is to get 50 swimmers from the Tampa Bay area to join
him in the Aquatica 1K swim. (Key West 12.5 mile)
Mi
Hoshino
is the first member of the 100K club to do all 100 crossing in a bikini.
Not only did she do all the crossing in a bikini she did them during the winter
without the benefit of a wet suit, including our cold record day of 58.8. She is the only member of the 100 K
club that complains the water is too hot when the temperature hits 72 degrees.
She is an expert at catching small fish in the lower half of her bikini, but no
one knows what she does with them. Mi is a independent realtor here in
Orlando.Real Estate questions at 407.947.2031. She will go extra miles for you to close your transactions. www.EnjoyRealty.com (200Kclub, 500K club, coldest day record)
Rick
Stafford Joins the 100K club after only four months with us. He is a
swimmer and triathlete and has completed the Ironman distance as well as the
Around Key West swim. Rick can be easily recognized swimming in the lake
as he always wears a front mount snorkel. It doesn't make him swim faster but it
does make him look real cool. Rick runs the Elite Fitness Concepts "Run
Operation Fitness Boot Camp"
www.BootcampFlorida.com He also coaches Team Tri-Hard an all women triathlon
training group, which means that Rick is much smarter than the rest of us guys.
Please don't give Rick any grief about being the only male in a group of women,
because he has his Masters Degree in counter terrorism and he might be forced to
kick your #@$. (Key West 12.5)
Hector
Torres with his negative 2% body fat looks like he just came off the set of the
movie "300" but it wasn't always that way. Ten years ago he weighed in at
a hundred pounds heavier and had to undergo a big change in lifestyle. Now
a triathlete he has done Ironmans and has qualified for Nationals in both the
long course and Olympic distances. Currently he is pursuing his PhD in sports
science and currently is self employed as a triathlon coach heading up the
Central Florida Triathlon Club
www.CFLTRICLUB.COM
Joe
Moletteire timed his 100K club entry with his first lap in the world record
setting 100K relay, multitasking at its best. Joe is a physical education
elementary school teacher at Central Avenue Elementary in Kissimmee. He is
also an avid triathlete an has completed two full Ironman Distance event events.
He has also completed the across Florida Bike ride six times.
George Mann enters the 100K club at age 70. George
was one of the original Lake Cane Swimmers back in 1989 and he was an inaugural
wall signer in 1999. Finally he has reached nirvana with his 100th
crossing (we didn't count the ones prior to the patches in 2003). George
is a former North American Sailing champion and five time National Champion. We
assume that he fell out of the boat a lot and that's why he's a pretty good
swimmer too, having been a former YMCA national masters champion in the mile (If
he would have fallen out of the boat closer to shore he might have become a
sprinter). He is also a crack shot having won the South Eastern Regional Cowboy
action shooting championships. George is a civil engineer (but he
can be a very uncivil engineer after his 8th or 9th beer plus he doesn't shoot
as straight) working for the city of Kissimmee for 32 years.
Rick
Westman took two years to get the halo of yellow around his name on the wall
of fame. Rick can be easily identified by the large red buoy that he keeps
in tow when he swims. Many have mistaken the buoy for a rest aid, but in
reality it is a lake cane monster repellent device. It is common knowledge
that the lake cane monster is repelled
by red buoys, and Rick confirms he has never been attacked by the monster, which
pretty much proves the point. Rick lives in Hunters Creek and is a
triathlete and open water swimmer. He has worked as a sales rep since 1984
with Amerisource Vergen which is a drug wholesaler. He also enjoys duck
hunting which is why the lake cane ducks can always be seen swimming away from the dock when he shows up.
Skip Yonchik you would not recognize if you saw him two years ago. Now 80 pounds lighter you would not believe he could have completed a 1/2 ironman or participated in ultracycling completing 257 miles in a 22 hour period. Of course this may be why he is 80 pounds lighter. Even though Skip lost most of his weight long before completing his first lake swim, we here at Lucky's Lake Swim still like to take full credit for all his weight loss and guarantee to others they will have similar results if they do the lake swim (double your money back guaranteed). Skip is an electrical engineer an works for Beacon electronics.(100K world record relay)
Kathleen Fitzgerald is our first grandmother who is a former spelunker to earn a spot in the 100K Club. A former High School All American Swimmer she is a regular at Lucky’s Lake Swim. She was a member of the 100 K relay world record swim and she is a dark swimmer as well. She swims for Masters of Orlando (MOO) at the downtown YMCA and proudly wears the piebald shirt with the little thingees. Her husband likes cheesecake. She is a teacher here in Orange County that works in the Hospital-Home Bound program.(100K world record relay, Hurricane Man)
Mark Dickie or we should say Dr. Mark Dickie is a PhD professor of economics at the University of Central Florida. His motto is “I have never seen a case of insomnia that I couldn't cure” When he is not delivering soporific lectures on the scintillating subject of economics, he is pursuing his passion of training for triathlons. He has completed the Ironman distance in the Louisville Ironman. Dr. Dickie made his goal of entering the 100K club before he turned 50 and he did it with a day to spare. Mark also has a device implanted on his left chest wall, which many mistake for a pacemaker. In reality it is a sonic gator away device, which has worked flawlessly for at least the first 100 crossings.
Carlos Figueiredo Immigrated to the United States in 1995 from Brazil. He lived in the mountains of Brazil and there were no heated pools so he appreciates us leaving the heater on in Lake Cane during the months of April through September. He swam competitively in High School and later in college at the University of Catolica. He competed in several open water swims in Brazil before moving to the US. He currently sells time-shares in Orlando.
Tom Fisher Moved to Florida four years ago. He drives an eighteen wheeler tractor trailer locally in Orlando. Being a very macho guy, with about .0001 percent body fat, he wanted to see what it would feel like to have one run over his foot. He decided to start small with a forklift, but it broke his foot so he has postponed having a semi drive over his foot for the time being. Being a runner the broken foot interfered with training so he learned to swim and began doing lake swims. Now thirty triathlons later he is still swimming and waiting for the perfect Semi to put his foot under. We wish you much success in your endeavor and please take plenty of calcium.
Danny Ellis Started swimming at age six so he could jump off the diving board (He wanted to impress the girls even at a young age). He swam for Homewood High School in Alabama. He has completed two running marathons and has the Ironman on his bucket list. He has four kids. Two of which have completed the lake swim as well as his brother. Danny is also a volunteer coach with the Orange County Special Olympics Swim Team. Although he acts like a softee he is really a tough guy. He let a car T-bone him on his bike just to see what it felt like and he didn't even cry (the bike did, it was trashed).
Keith McUmber The first time he swam in Lake Cane he only made it 100meters swimming with TNT. He hung onto a doughnut swim buoy for safety. He has come along was since then now being a member of the 100K club. He is from the western NY Rochester area and has a wife three kids and three cats. None of the cats plan on doing the lake swim in the future. He works in sales for loss prevention labels in case you need any loss prevention labels (not for use on kids or animals). 200K club
TomWelch is the second minister to make it into the 100K club confirming that swimming Lucky's Lake Swim is a religious experience. Tom grew up in Fort Lauderdale swimming for the legendary swim coach Jack Nelson. He attended University of Florida and has a Masters degree in ministry. He plays a mean electric guitar (the rock and roll star thingy didn't work out) and he has done mission work in Africa (the importation of ivory didn't work out either) so he still continues his day job as a minister. He does swim with a knife, so don't grab him and make alligator chomping sounds as a joke.
MaryEllen Indiveri completed her first triathlon on her 50th birthday. Soon after this she discovered Lucky's Lake Swim, but not before discovering that 50 year olds frequently have to swim to rehab injuries caused by 50 year olds deciding to start doing triathlons. She is the first 100K club member to do all 100 crossings breaststroke. Although that may not seem extreme she also sky dives, bungee jumps, scuba dives, races cars and swims the lake without a knife.
Christine Payne Started training at age 42 for triathlons and in only four years was able to complete her first Ironman distance. She is an account executive for Philadelphia Insurance which is a commercial business insurer. Best known for her favorite saying "This is the best day ever!" she was strangely absent on the coldest days of the lake swim which can only be assumed were not the best days ever. She is known by her friends as "The Devil".
Mark Larson on his first attempt at Lucky's Lake Swim "freaked out" and only swam half-way, but he now routinely completes three crossings. Due to his silent, but regular appearance for dark swims he was dubbed "quiet man" by the other 100K club members. Mark is the CFO for Florida Municipal Power Agency. He is a member of the sub sixty club having swam down to 57.3 (but he was wearing a wimp suit).
John Barrett Grew up in California on the beach where he learned to swim and surf, but like most of us he was forced to grow up. Suddenly realizing the dismal prospects that occur with middle-age he began triathlons in 2006. He now has done six full distance Ironmans, but this is not enough because he is still middle-aged. When he is not swimming, running or cycling John does physician background checks for Med Advantage. Since reading this bio, he has done an exhaustive background check on Lucky and has determined that Lucky is not a dermatologist but just a smartly dressed tree druid.
Kim Hawkins
Gregg Dedic is the first Special Olympian to be inducted into the 100K Club. Gregg swims for the Man O' War swim team at the YMCA Aquatic Center where he has five team records. Gregg was recently selected to represent Florida in the 2010 National Special Olympics Swimming Championships. Gregg swam in High School for Cypress Creek and he currently works at Sea World.
Mel Nash II
Mel Nash at age 15 is our youngest and first teenager to get inducted into the 100K club. Mel swims for Y Swim Orlando and DP Highschool. Since he is a kid (not a small kid, but a kid just the same) his life story is still blank and ready to be filled. He is still young enough to starting hanging out with a higher class of folks than lake swimmers so there may be hope for him yet. Although Mel swam the majority of his crossings with a kickboard and fins we can't harrass him too much as he is still faster that all of us when he takes them off.
Vicky Hay best known for proving that you shouldn't drink vodka before doing your 4AM leg of the 100K relay. Although her hurling skills may rank the best of the 100K club members she gets negative points for her life long passionate hatred of the Three Stooges. Her entertainment preferences are more high brow., such as watching Sponge Bob while consuming a gallon of ice cream. Vicky has participated in both midnight swims and the 2007,100K relay. She is a spanish tutor by trade, but watches most of her spongebob episodes in English. She can be reached at Numerounotutoring.com .
Jeff Decker nearly died while trying to complete his one hundredth crossing. As he entered the water for his last swim he took his wedding band off his finger to tie into the cord of his suit so he would not loose it. Unfortunately, he dropped the wedding band in the water. He knew he would face death by wife if he returned home without the ring, and a panicked search revealed nothing. Enter now our superhuman treasure hunter Ron Davis (see 100K club member #6). Armed with an underwater metal detector and a scoop the lost treasure was found (along with several rusty nails, screws and electrical covers, which Lucky is making into a necklace). When asked the value of the ring Jeff''s only answer was "how can you place a value on a life." (Lucky using all of his ring appraising skills determined the exact value of the ring at $375,000.00 give or take a few hundred thousand.) Jeff went on to complete his swim (ring carefully put away). Jeff has completed four ironmans and is an attorney with Baker Hostetler (which is how he can afford a $375,000.00 wedding ring.
Lorri Moyer SCUBA dives, sky dives, water skis, snow boards, lays tile, hangs drywall and now is in the 100K club. While she is not doing these cool things she works as a phone company provisioner, which she explained in detail, but due to a random narcoleptic episode during the interview our reporter is pretty sure that she said she puts, beef jerky, flour, coffee, dry black powder and musket balls in backpacks for phone company crews (I might be wrong on this.) She is single and looking but would not give her age or weight, but she appears to have good dentition. She grew up swimming for the Franklin YMCA in PA and attended the Boyd School for Travel and Tourism which surprisingly did not have a swim team. She has been doing triathlons for a little over a year.
Seth Elsheimer, provided me with a 157 page Curriculum Vitae and I have distilled it down to this - he holds a PhD and is an Associate Professor of Chemisty at the University of Central Florida http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~sethe/ He has run a marathon or ultramarathon in each of the 50 United States (ed. note... who hasn't??) Canada, Greece and the Czech Republic. http://www.marathonmaniacsdb.com/Maniacx/MyMarathons.asp?Maniacld=1049) He can be seen around town singing with several vocal ensembles including MAKESHIFT http://harmonize.com./makeshift Orlando Harmony http://orlandoharmony.com/ Caroling Company http://www.carolingcompany.com/ and my personal favorite www.werunandsingforfood.com (Okay I made the last one up, but it makes sense).
Dave Helsel is a Orlando native and grew up swimming for the West Orange water warriors YMCA and Dr Phillips High School where is was an All American for four years going a 58.1 in the 100 Breast and
1:57 in the 200 IM. He quit swimming to concentrate on his studies (women) in college but Lucky's Lake swim has brought him back into the fold. Now he punishes himself with triathlons and work. He is a mechanical Engineer (which means he does nothing mechanical) who is a program manager (which means he manages people not programs) at Lockheed.
Lucky
Meisenheimer, M.D. OK it makes sense that the host swimmer would make it into the
AQUATICA 100 K club first. He has been doing the lake swims since 1989 and holds the
record for the fastest
over age Forty, time for a single crossing at 6:14 Lucky is a former masters national
champion and world record holder.....he is best known for his Guinness World
Record for the largest Yo-Yo collection and writing the book on yo-yo
collecting. Lucky is also a member of the Screen Actors Guild and has been in Ripley's
Believe it or Not for swimming 1/2 mile with his foot in his mouth. In
Addition, he's a pretty darn good Dermasurgeon.
www.OrlandoSkinDoc.com
www.LuckyRoseFilms.com
www.Yo-Yos.net (Alcatraz no wet
suit, Key West 12.5 mile, Hurricane Man, Cayman, 100K World Record Relay,
200Kclub, 500Kclub, coldest day record)
Kathleen Fitzgerald is our first grandmother who is a former spelunker to earn a spot in the 100K Club. A former High School All American Swimmer she is a regular at Lucky’s Lake Swim. She was a member of the 100 K relay world record swim and she is a dark swimmer as well. She swims for Masters of Orlando (MOO) at the downtown YMCA and proudly wears the piebald shirt with the little thingees. Her husband likes cheesecake. She is a teacher here in Orange County that works in the Hospital-Home Bound program.(100K world record relay, Hurricane Man)
Mark Dickie or we should say Dr. Mark Dickie is a PhD professor of economics at the University of Central Florida. His motto is “I have never seen a case of insomnia that I couldn't cure” When he is not delivering soporific lectures on the scintillating subject of economics, he is pursuing his passion of training for triathlons. He has completed the Ironman distance in the Louisville Ironman. Dr. Dickie made his goal of entering the 100K club before he turned 50 and he did it with a day to spare. Mark also has a device implanted on his left chest wall, which many mistake for a pacemaker. In reality it is a sonic gator away device, which has worked flawlessly for at least the first 100 crossings.
Carlos Figueiredo Immigrated to the United States in 1995 from Brazil. He lived in the mountains of Brazil and there were no heated pools so he appreciates us leaving the heater on in Lake Cane during the months of April through September. He swam competitively in High School and later in college at the University of Catolica. He competed in several open water swims in Brazil before moving to the US. He currently sells time-shares in Orlando.
Tom Fisher Moved to Florida four years ago. He drives an eighteen wheeler tractor trailer locally in Orlando. Being a very macho guy, with about .0001 percent body fat, he wanted to see what it would feel like to have one run over his foot. He decided to start small with a forklift, but it broke his foot so he has postponed having a semi drive over his foot for the time being. Being a runner the broken foot interfered with training so he learned to swim and began doing lake swims. Now thirty triathlons later he is still swimming and waiting for the perfect Semi to put his foot under. We wish you much success in your endeavor and please take plenty of calcium.
Keith McUmber The first time he swam in Lake Cane he only made it 100meters swimming with TNT. He hung onto a doughnut swim buoy for safety. He has come along was since then now being a member of the 100K club. He is from the western NY Rochester area and has a wife three kids and three cats. None of the cats plan on doing the lake swim in the future. He works in sales for loss prevention labels in case you need any loss prevention labels (not for use on kids or animals). 200K club
TomWelch is the second minister to make it into the 100K club confirming that swimming Lucky's Lake Swim is a religious experience. Tom grew up in Fort Lauderdale swimming for the legendary swim coach Jack Nelson. He attended University of Florida and has a Masters degree in ministry. He plays a mean electric guitar (the rock and roll star thingy didn't work out) and he has done mission work in Africa (the importation of ivory didn't work out either) so he still continues his day job as a minister. He does swim with a knife, so don't grab him and make alligator chomping sounds as a joke.
MaryEllen Indiveri completed her first triathlon on her 50th birthday. Soon after this she discovered Lucky's Lake Swim, but not before discovering that 50 year olds frequently have to swim to rehab injuries caused by 50 year olds deciding to start doing triathlons. She is the first 100K club member to do all 100 crossings breaststroke. Although that may not seem extreme she also sky dives, bungee jumps, scuba dives, races cars and swims the lake without a knife. 
Christine Payne Started training at age 42 for triathlons and in only four years was able to complete her first Ironman distance. She is an account executive for Philadelphia Insurance which is a commercial business insurer. Best known for her favorite saying "This is the best day ever!" she was strangely absent on the coldest days of the lake swim which can only be assumed were not the best days ever. She is known by her friends as "The Devil". 
Mark Larson on his first attempt at Lucky's Lake Swim "freaked out" and only swam half-way, but he now routinely completes three crossings. Due to his silent, but regular appearance for dark swims he was dubbed "quiet man" by the other 100K club members. Mark is the CFO for Florida Municipal Power Agency. He is a member of the sub sixty club having swam down to 57.3 (but he was wearing a wimp suit).
John Barrett Grew up in California on the beach where he learned to swim and surf, but like most of us he was forced to grow up. Suddenly realizing the dismal prospects that occur with middle-age he began triathlons in 2006. He now has done six full distance Ironmans, but this is not enough because he is still middle-aged. When he is not swimming, running or cycling John does physician background checks for Med Advantage. Since reading this bio, he has done an exhaustive background check on Lucky and has determined that Lucky is not a dermatologist but just a smartly dressed tree druid. 
Gregg Dedic is the first Special Olympian to be inducted into the 100K Club. Gregg swims for the Man O' War swim team at the YMCA Aquatic Center where he has five team records. Gregg was recently selected to represent Florida in the 2010 National Special Olympics Swimming Championships. Gregg swam in High School for Cypress Creek and he currently works at Sea World.
Vicky Hay best known for proving that you shouldn't drink vodka before doing your 4AM leg of the 100K relay. Although her hurling skills may rank the best of the 100K club members she gets negative points for her life long passionate hatred of the Three Stooges. Her entertainment preferences are more high brow., such as watching Sponge Bob while consuming a gallon of ice cream. Vicky has participated in both midnight swims and the 2007,100K relay. She is a spanish tutor by trade, but watches most of her spongebob episodes in English. She can be reached at Numerounotutoring.com .
Jeff Decker nearly died while trying to complete his one hundredth crossing. As he entered the water for his last swim he took his wedding band off his finger to tie into the cord of his suit so he would not loose it. Unfortunately, he dropped the wedding band in the water. He knew he would face death by wife if he returned home without the ring, and a panicked search revealed nothing. Enter now our superhuman treasure hunter Ron Davis (see 100K club member #6). Armed with an underwater metal detector and a scoop the lost treasure was found (along with several rusty nails, screws and electrical covers, which Lucky is making into a necklace). When asked the value of the ring Jeff''s only answer was "how can you place a value on a life." (Lucky using all of his ring appraising skills determined the exact value of the ring at $375,000.00 give or take a few hundred thousand.) Jeff went on to complete his swim (ring carefully put away). Jeff has completed four ironmans and is an attorney with Baker Hostetler (which is how he can afford a $375,000.00 wedding ring.
Lorri Moyer SCUBA dives, sky dives, water skis, snow boards, lays tile, hangs drywall and now is in the 100K club. While she is not doing these cool things she works as a phone company provisioner, which she explained in detail, but due to a random narcoleptic episode during the interview our reporter is pretty sure that she said she puts, beef jerky, flour, coffee, dry black powder and musket balls in backpacks for phone company crews (I might be wrong on this.) She is single and looking but would not give her age or weight, but she appears to have good dentition. She grew up swimming for the Franklin YMCA in PA and attended the Boyd School for Travel and Tourism which surprisingly did not have a swim team. She has been doing triathlons for a little over a year.
Seth Elsheimer, provided me with a 157 page Curriculum Vitae and I have distilled it down to this - he holds a PhD and is an Associate Professor of Chemisty at the University of Central Florida http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~sethe/ He has run a marathon or ultramarathon in each of the 50 United States (ed. note... who hasn't??) Canada, Greece and the Czech Republic. http://www.marathonmaniacsdb.com/Maniacx/MyMarathons.asp?Maniacld=1049) He can be seen around town singing with several vocal ensembles including MAKESHIFT http://harmonize.com./makeshift Orlando Harmony http://orlandoharmony.com/ Caroling Company http://www.carolingcompany.com/ and my personal favorite www.werunandsingforfood.com (Okay I made the last one up, but it makes sense).
Dave Helsel is a Orlando native and grew up swimming for the West Orange water warriors YMCA and Dr Phillips High School where is was an All American for four years going a 58.1 in the 100 Breast and
