Jacqu Lang of Ridgefield was co-chair of Swim Across America, which recently donated $460,000 to Stamford-based Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy, the nations only nonprofit dedicated exclusively to cell and gene therapies for cancer.

Swim Across America is a national nonprofit dedicated to raising money and awareness for cancer research.

Jacqu Lang

Ms. Lang, who co-chaired the Greenwich/Stamford swim for the seventh time, has been involved with the organization for more than 20 years as a participant, board member and fund-raiser.

I swam growing up, and this organization provided a wonderful way to take my love of swimming and do great things with it, she said.

Her sister, Janel Jorgensen McArdle, who also grew up in Ridgefield, has been the national executive director of Swim Across America since 2005 she was also a 1988 U.S. Olympic silver medalist.

She asked if I would mind helping out to launch a new swim, and here we are going into our eighth annual event having raised over $2 million for the Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy.

Nationally, Swim Across America raised more than $5 million in 2013.

The next Greenwich-Stamford swim is Saturday, June 21. See http://www.swimacrossamerica.org for details.

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