Asphalt Green’s “Swim for the Future” Takes Place This Weekend in the Big Apple

NEW YORK, November 14. ASPHALT Green's Third Annual “Swim for the Future” featuring eight-time Olympic medalist Gary Hall, Jr., takes place this weekend. It will be held from 6-10 pm on Saturday, November 15th, at Asphalt Green, 555 East 90th Street, in New York.

The event raises fund for The Andrew Fisher and Doug Irgang Scholarship Fund, two Masters Swimmers who died two years ago in the Arab terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on 9-11.

A ceremony featuring Olympian Gary Hall, Jr. will be held at 8:00 pm.

The Andrew Fisher and Doug Irgang Scholarship Fund provides financial support each year to young competitive swimmers who are dedicated and passionate about swimming, but have a limited financial capacity to pursue their dreams. A portion of the proceeds also provides swim scholarships to children who lost their parents in the World Trade Center attack.

Swim For The Future assures that Andrew and Doug's commitment to swimming, fitness and leadership be forever remembered. Not only did Andrew and Doug excel at swimming, they were passionate about the importance it has on attaining a healthy lifestyle. They were both generous supporters of Asphalt Green's Waterproofing Program, a partnership with the NYC public schools that teaches inner city school children to swim. Learning to swim not only teaches children a survival skill, it increases self-esteem, teaches discipline and the importance of hard work and perservance in attaining goals.

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Hall, who just returned from a two-meet tour of Europe, is in New York to do several charity appearances as well as record a radio spot in support of “NYC 2012” – New York City’s bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games.

This morning he appeared on “Cold Pizza,” the popular ESPN2 morning show, where he spoke about diabetes (November is National Diabetes Month), Swim for the Future, his formation of the Race Club and his own plans to make his third US Olympic team in 2004.

In addition, Hall served as ESPN2’s weatherman this morning. Initial reports are that he was good, but Al Roker can sleep easily.

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