Yellow Springs woman makes history, swims English Channel on 50th birthday

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (WDTN) — A Yellow Springs woman has made history becoming only the second woman in Ohio to ever complete a solo English Channel swim.

Yellow Springs native Amy Wamsley has returned to the U.S. with a medal and a goal checked off her bucket list.

Training for more than a year in local pools and other bodies of water like the San Francisco Bay and around La Jolla, she arrived in England on May 14 to swim the English Channel…

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