Journey not over for Trinity

At just 14-years old, Trinity Arsenault of St. Catharines became the youngest person to swim across Lake Ontario earlier this week. And even though she’s back on land, the teen’s impressive journey isn’t over yet.

It’s been just over 48 hours since 14-year old Trinity Arsenault swam into the record books as the youngest person to swim across Lake Ontario from Niagara to Toronto. And she’s still getting used to her land legs.

Trinity: “It feels really strange not to be horizontal anymore.”

She’s slowly recovering at home, saying she feels better each day. Her Mother Christine taking care of her. She knows what it feels like – having made the 52 kilometre swim across Lake Ontario, which makes them the first mother-daughter team to do so.

Coming from a supportive home that encouraged being active, Trinity decided to swim for a cause, raising money for kids whose families can’t afford to put them in sports.

I don’t know who I’d be if I wasn’t able to be an active and be an athlete. I think it does so many things for a young person. It builds confidence, leadership, productivity, creativity. It’s just really important.

Trinity’s swim for a cause is similar to Annaleise Carr who previously held the Lake Ontario record, swimming the same route back in 2012 at 14 years and 158 days old. Trinity was 14 years and 70 days old.

Annaleise showed her support for Trinity via social media. And another record holder, swimmer Vicki Keith, was also impressed by the swim: “It was spectacular, the heart that Trinity showed was amazing. At one point, we had thunderstorms coming in at three angles, we were swimming back towards St. Catharines just to get out of the thunderstorms then we ended up heading towards Hamilton to get out of another one..”

While it wasn’t the easiest swim, Trinity says she’s already made plans to get back in the water: “I’d like to get fast again and become a 10k water swimmer and go places with that.”

Trinity is still about six-thousand dollars shy of reaching her goal of ten-thousand dollars for the Canadian Tire charity “Jumpstart”. Information on how to help her reach and surpass that goal can be found on the website.