24-Hour Oz Relay

All community members, from dog paddlers to serious swimmers, are invited to be part of the YWCA Flying Fish’s annual 24-hour Oz Relay May 17 and 18 at YWCA Evanston/North Shore.
 

The “relay,” which will start at 6:30 p.m. on May 17 and end at 6:30 p.m. on May 18, honors the memory of longtime Flying Fish swim coach and instructor Oswald “Oz” Roper, who died in 2013. 
 

Oz was particularly interested in teaching as many kids as possible how to swim. Therefore, the money raised from the Oz Relay is used to provide scholarships to the YWCA’s Flying Fish Swim School so families are never turned away based on ability to pay.
 

Each 30-minute leg of the Oz Relay is a minimum $80. You can sign up to swim through our registration portal Community Pass or contact Aquatics Director Pete Caragher (pcaragher@ywca-ens.org).
 

Learn more about the Oz Relay here and if you can’t be part of the relay, you can make a donation to the Oz Fund for Aquatics Scholarships here.