Sunday

July 23

3rd annual

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Fieldstone Invitational Open Water Swim

4.5 MILE

OPEN WATER SWIM

Beginning at 11:00 am

Come join in the third annual open water swim, starting at 11am from the Fieldstone INN, Hiawassee Ga, ending up at the Chatuge Dam Hayesville NC.This is guarenteed to be a good workout for the first timers as well as the seasoned swimmer. There will be plenty of people, both in the water and out to join in the crossing.

   

Local Ironman, Dwight Moss(L), Race Director of the Great Smoky Mountains Triathlon Club, Scott Hanna(M) and veteran tri racer Mike Kelischek(R) moments after finishing the 4.5 mile open water swim that started at the foot of the mountains pictured in the background.

Some triathlon racers from the Chatuge Challenge race on June 17th considering the 4.5 mile open water swim pictured here.

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The race begins at the lower left portion of Lake Chatuge and works it's way NE to the Chatuge Dam, (marked on map below) crossing the NC-GA state lines about 1/3 of the way.

Hiawassee GA is located approximately where the yellow mark is on the map below. Written directions to the area are located on the MAPS TO RACES site located on home page.		 If you've been wondering if you could complete a race like this, now is the time to find out. We're having several swim teams send in swimmers, as well as triathlon swimmers coming to take part in this state to state swim.

Tee shirts will be given out to the first 15 swimmers to complete the swim. Ribbons will be given to all that participate. Tee shirts can be purchased at the race.		 There will be several boats, kyacks and pontoons to watch over the field of swimmers to assure their safety.

There will be a $20 fee to participate in this event. Money raised from this race will be given to a charity chosen by the Great Smoky Mountains Triathlon Club.

For information about hotels, campgrounds, restaurants, golf and other recreational activities see our sponsors site located on the home page.

First Name Last Name Address Age Sex Race # Age Group Finish Time
Scott Fredrick Alpharetta Ga 34 m 38 b 1:26:29
Gary Eaton Atlanta Ga 43 m 74 c 1:32:12
Bill Bond Decatur Ga 39 m 36 b 1:32:20
Bob Sherrier La Grange Ga 41 m 42 b 1:32:48
Clay Stanton Atlanta GA 33 m 39 b 1:33:03
Allison Maxwell Murphy NC 12 f 16 a 1:36:02
Beth Gardner Atlanta GA   f 32 b 1:36:10
Tom Schmaltz Acworth Ga 46 m 71 c 1:36:17
Cord Patrick Cumming Ga 34 m 44 b 1:37:17
Bob Piacentini ? Ga 42 m 75 c 1:37:58
Bruckner Chase Apex NC 34 m 34 b 1:41:15
Morgan Maxwell Murphy NC 14 f 10 a 1:42:27
Vanessa Maxwell Murphy NC 17 f 9 a 1:43:13
Marilyn Hall Watkinsville Ga 30 f 30 b 1:43:37
Robert Smith Blairsville Ga 12 m 13 a 1:49:24
David Shinn Doraville Ga 25 m 40 b 1:49:24
Matt Steinmann Atlanta Ga 44 m 50 c 1:49:45
Tyler Earnst High Point NC 28 m 33 b 1:51:48
Lincoln Willams Dallas Tx 34 m 51 b 2:01:51
James Wilson Knoxville Tn 36 m 55 b 2:06:33
Sinker Macintyre Atlanta Ga 49 m 70 c 2:07:14
Amber Stein Murphy NC 13 f 8 a 2:07:41
Sebrina Tuttle Blairsville Ga 13 f 11 a 2:08:29
Tim Nettleton Marietta Ga 28 m 54 b 2:14:02
Rafael Boada Sumerna Ga 29 m 52 b 2:19:20
Scott Hanna Hayesville NC 46 m   c 2:20:21
Jim Mahoney Oak Ridge NC 40 m 72 c 2:21:36
J.Scott Jordan Knoxville Tn 37 m 37 b 2:28:22
Mike Kelischek Murphy NC 44 m 56 c 2:32:17
Steven Brown Loganville Ga 39 m 41 b 2:37:50
Kristin Gunderson Canton Ga 19 f 5 a 2:39:17
Doug Papciak Loganville Ga 34 m 35 b 2:44:15
Jarret Holland Canton Ga 21 m 6 a 3:09:07
Patric Hickey Hayesville NC 32 m 155 b 3:10:01
Robert Mertz Greer SC 44 m 73 c 3:16:01
Eddie Smith Blairsville Ga 11 m 12 a DNF
               
 With a field of 43 swimmers the Fieldstone Invitational 4.5 mile open water swim started almost on time under cloudy skies and wind. It was the worst weather we had to swim in sense the start of the event 3 years ago, but the field of swimmers overcame the wind and light rain to blow out the old records that were set at the lake swim.

Swimmers from the Dynamo Masters of Atlanta sent in the biggest contingent of swimmers, followed by the North Ga Rapids swim team. Both of these clubs took home awards and got their names in the record books.

Scott Fredrick from Alpharetta Ga led the field of swimmers across the lake and had an overall winning time of 1:26 :29. Twelve year old Allison Maxwell was the overall winner for the ladies with a winning time of 1:36:02.

The race across the lake was made safe thanks to the help of the Clay County Rescue Squad by having 7 water vehicles on the lake to watch over the swimmers.

We at the Great Smoky Mountains Triathlon Club want to thank the Fieldstone Resort for sponsoring this event and donating the supplies and boats that were used to produce the race.

My thanks to all the swim clubs that were here to compete from as far away as Jacksonville NC, Birmingham Al, La Grange GA, & Knoxville Tn. We are looking forward to next years race when the club wants to put on 2 open water swim. The second swim will be called the Chatuge Double Cross. The best of the best swimmers will not only do one crossing of the lake, but 2 crossings. They will swim from the Fieldstone resort to the Chatuge Dam and back again, a total of 9 miles. I'll let you know the dates for that swim sometime early in 2001.

Keep an eye on the web site for more updates on this race and other races we're doing here in the beautiful N Ga and Western NC Mountains.