By Maria Guardado | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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on August 21, 2015 at 7:00 AM, updated August 21, 2015 at 10:58 AM
LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP — Charlotte Samuels is at ease. It’s 9:30 a.m. and the sun is still rising, but sweltering heat already emanates, warming the strip of lagoon behind her family’s yellow vacation rental home in Loveladies. She’s sitting on the deck above the water, wearing a blue swimsuit, her dark curly hair slightly damp from having taken a dip in a nearby beach earlier this morning.
NJ teen prepares to make 20-mile swim from Long Island to Jersey ShoreCharlotte Samuels, of Ridgewood, is preparing to swim 20 miles from Long Island to the Jersey Shore. This should be no problem after what she accomplished last summer, swimming the 28-mile Manhattan Island Marathon Swim, the 20-mile Catalina Channel and the 21-mile English Channel. (Video by John Munson | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
It’s been an unusually calm summer for Samuels, the Ridgewood teenager who last year became the youngest Triple Crown swimmer after completing a series of swims around the island of Manhattan, across the English Channel and across the Catalina Channel in California.
She traveled to Minnesota this June to participate in a poetry slam camp and then to Massachusetts in July to attend a writing program at Smith College. In between, she hung out with her family and friends, maximizing her free time before the start of her senior year at Ridgewood High School.
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