Ridgewood smimmer Charlotte Samuels gets warm homecoming after Triple Crown triumph
SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014, 12:42 AM
BY CHRISTOPHER MAAG
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
Of course the world record is important. Of course a person who attains the highest achievement in her sport should be congratulated.
But when Camille Stern greeted her granddaughter Charlotte Samuels at Newark Liberty International Airport on Saturday for the first time since Charlotte became the youngest person ever to complete three of the most grueling events in open-water swimming, she had something more important to say.
“I missed you, honey,” Stern said to Charlotte, as they pressed their foreheads together and smiled into each others’ eyes.
“I missed you, too, Grandma,” said Charlotte, the Ridgewood girl who at age 16 has attained the Triple Crown of open-water swimming by circumnavigating Manhattan, and crossing California’s Catalina Channel and the English Channel — all this summer.
After three weeks in England, Charlotte returned home to New Jersey on Saturday. Like the rest of her trip across the ocean, her homecoming was humble and spontaneous, cradled by the arms of her family.
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