//16-year-old US girl swims across English Channel

16-year-old US girl swims across English Channel

A 16-year-old girl from Springfield, New Hampshire, completed a swim across the English Channel this week. It took Vera Rivard about 14 hours to make the 21-mile trip from England to France. At 16, she is the youngest age a person can legally be to swim across the channel. The accomplishment is something she’s dreamed of doing her entire life and spent months training for.”For