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 grandfathering 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.com     www.LuckyRoseFilms.com       www.Yo-Yos.net  (Alcatraz no wet suit, Key West 12.5 mile, Hurricane Man, Cayman, 100K World Record Relay)

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 swmming 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)

Dave Tattersall lives in Hunters Creek and began swimming just 2 ½  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.

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)

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 complete Appalachian 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)

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. (KeyWest 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..

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) 

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.  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.

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)