Swimming the extra mile: Maya Merhige took almost 9 hours to complete the 20 Bridges Swim in Manhattan -- all to help raise money for cancer research.
A 15-year-old girl completed what is known as the 20 Bridges Swim -- a 28.5-mile swim around Manhattan -- and it was all for a good cause.
Maya Merhige joined the challenge over the weekend as part of Swim Across America to raise money for cancer research."Whatever I'm doing in my swimming, or whatever pain go through in my swims, it's really nothing compared to the struggle that cancer families go through," Merhige said. "And that really pushes me to keep going forward."Over the past eight years she has raised more than $60,000 with Swim Across America.
"Knowing that the money I'm raising makes a difference really encourages me to keep going," she said. "And through my fund raising, I hope that we can kind of end cancer."
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