Watch: New Hampshire 16-year-old swims across the English Channel

 A 16-year-old New Hampshire woman said her 33-mile swim across country Channel was the fulfillment of a long dream.

 

Vera Rivard, 16, a Springfield resident and student at Kearsarge Regional high school swam from Samphire Hoe beach in the state capital, England, to Wissant, France.

The swim took Rivard a complete time of fourteen hours, 10 minutes. Her support team said tides and marine traffic caused her to require a formed route that encompassed about thirty-three miles of swimming.

"That was a swim of a lifetime," Rivard told the News. "I have dreamed of this for as long as I can remember. it absolutely was higher than I may have ever hoped. I’m therefore grateful for this journey."

Rivard's goal is to finish the alleged "Triple Crown" of long-distance swimming. English Channel was the second swim on her list, once antecedently taking over the "20 Bridges of Manhattan Island" swim, that involves a 28.5-mile travel of the new york city island, in July.

She currently has her sights set on the ultimate "Triple Crown" swim, a 20-mile distance from the ground to California's Santa Catalina Island.