Kloss2Cross – Jason’s Swim!

Paris man swimming 51 km across Lake Ontario (as of press deadline) to fundraise for Mental Health

Meet Paris resident, entrepreneur, family man, and dare we say swimmer extraordinaire, Jason Kloss. He’s been training for the challenge of a lifetime, AGAIN, this time in support of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health brining awareness to Mental Health and Suicide Prevention. As you’re reading this, and as long as everything went according to plan, Jason has just completed a 51-kilometre swim across Lake Ontario.

In 2011, Jason Kloss successfully completed a 65km, 26-hour non-stop swim across Lake Huron raising $22,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society. Jason’s coach was his late grandfather, Dick Kloss, who completed the same swim exactly 20 years before him

Jason started his swim earlier than scheduled at 8 am onAugust 11th to get ahead of some bad weather that was forecasted for Toronto on Saturday His swim started at Queen’s Royal Park in Niagara on the Lake He fought cold temperatures, fatigue and night swimming (with low to no visibility) until he hit the shores of Marilyn Bell Park in Toronto in the very early hours of August 12th approximately 20hrs later, if all goes according to plan. Kloss successfully met his $50,000 fundraising goal the night before he dipped into Lake Ontario. If you’d still like to donate, you can do so through his website.