Rye’s Adam Coe Completes 10K Swim Across Long Island Sound for Charity Event

What did you do last Saturday?

One Rye resident spent the early morning swimming the ten kilometers (6.21 miles) across Long Island Sound from Morgan Park in Glen Cove, Long Island to the Larchmont Shore Club in support of Swim Across America’s mission to fight cancer. One of eleven elite open water master swimmers (four women and seven men), Adam Coe, age 45, of Rye, made the swim. It was his second time doing a 10K and third time participating in Swim Across America. Coe swam as part of the Next Level Private team run by Barry Mitchell of Harrison.

“I’m probably the one of, if not the least experienced out of the crew [that swam Saturday],” Coe told MyRye.com, who raised $5,000 to support the swim.

You do this for fun, and to be able to take a passion project and have it be for a good cause is just a neat thing that we all like to do.”

Coe grew up in the Midwest and Texas, and played water polo for Texas A&M. He moved to Manhattan in 2007 and then when he moved to Rye in 2022 with his wife and two kids, Coe fell in with Westchester Masters, an open water swimming group. Members of the group have swam around Manhattan and swam across the English Channel. Wherever there is water locally, Coe swims – the Rye YMCA, the Greenwich Y, Oakland Beach, Playland Beach, Coveleigh Club, Manursing Island Club and Rye Golf.

“I swim all over Rye. Any place that is wet in Rye I probably swam there,” said Coe.

Next up for Coe is a swim around Manhattan – his first. The swim will raise money for Family Reach, another nonprofit supporting those facing cancer (you can support Coe’s Manhattan swim fundraiser).