Melissa Berkay
From Openwaterpedia
Melissa Berkay is an American competitive swimmer and open water swimmer. A double major in music and journalism at Mills College, she is a Swimming World Magazine College Intern who writes about marathon swimming and channel swimming. She also serves a teacher's assistant at the Mills College Children's School and works at the Mills College Fitness Center.
Aquatic Career
- Berkay is a sophomore at Mills College and represented Mills at the 2016 NCAA Division III Championships
- Her favorite event is the 200y butterfly
- She competes in open water swimming competitions in the college off-season
- She participated in a Catalina Channel relay crossing in 2009
- She completed the second butterfly 32.3 km crossing of the Catalina Channel on 11 August 2016 in 12 hours 41 minutes setting a course record (Record, observed by John York and Kelley Prebil)
- She completed a 14 km Swim for Hope in 15 September 2015
External links
- Berkay's Butterfly Brings Benefits
- Butterfly Felt So Much Healthier
- Berkay Butterfly
- Captain Harvey, Jax Cole Honored
- Mills College Swimmer Melissa Berkay Sets World Record
- How Anne Cleveland Uses Marathon Swimming to Fundraise, Coach, and Promote Health
- Q&A with Open Water Swimmer Grace Van Der Byl
- How Marathon Swimmer Dan Simonelli Prepares for the English Channel
- 5 Reasons Why Olympic Rookie Jordan Wilimovsky is Set to Dominate
- Olympic 10K Marathon Swim
- Daily News of Open Water Swimming
- I Got Stung
- World Marathon Swimming Association
- Mills Student, Hoping to Become First American to Complete Marathon Swim in the Butterfly Stroke, Featured in TV, Radio Interviews
- San Diego Swimmer Hopes To Benefit The Homeless By Making History
- List of Open Water Butterfly Swims
- Butterfly Can Be Brutal
- Brutal ... Butterfly In The Open Water
- The Toughest, Gnarliest Open Water Swimmers Around
- Butterfly Swim Rules In The Open Water
- What Is The World's Most Difficult Sports Move?
- Flat Abs, Fitness And Fly
- Nicknames In The Open Water Swimming World
- What Are Swimmers Known As?
- Open Water Swimming
- World Open Water Swimming Association
