Allison Ware

Allison Ware is a 37-year-old American endurance athlete and open water swimmer from Nashville, Tennessee .

Open Water Swimming Career Highlights

Completed the 2012 and 2013 Swim the Suck marathon swims.
Completed 25+ triathlons
Completed an Ironman distance triathlon in 2008
Completed 6 marathons
Between 25-28 April 2018, she completed all four stage swims of the SCAR Swim Challenge in Arizona (9.5-mile or 15.2 km Saguaro Lake + 9-mile or 14.4 km Canyon Lake + 17-mile or 27.3 km Apache Lake + 6.2-mile or 10 km Roosevelt Lake), finishing 11th overall at the age of 37 in a cumulative time of 17 hours 19 minutes 44.4 seconds.
On 2 October 2021, she swam 32.3 km across the Catalina Channel from Santa Catalina Island to the Southern California mainland in 12 hours 15 minutes escorted by Captain Morgan Hoesterey, kayaker Grace van der Byl, with pace swimmer Devon Clifford, kayakers Stacey Irwin and Jonathon Ryan, with escort crew chief Billy Long.