Luther College swimmers raise money in swimathon

The Luther College swimming pool was rocking on Tuesday evening as the Norse men's and women's swim team members participated in the Ninth Annual "Hour of Power Relay" to raise money for cancer research.

The event, which honors former Carleton swimmer Edward H. "Ted" Mullin, who passed away from synovial sarcoma, a rare soft-tissue cancer, in September 2006, is a one-hour, all-out, leave-it-in-the-pool practice consisting of continuous relays, using any stroke.

Over the past eight years, participants in the "Hour of Power" have raised nearly $500,000 for the Ted Mullin Fund for Pediatric Sarcoma Research at the University of Chicago Medicins Comer Children's Hospital.

From 5:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. Tuesday Luther swimmers kept swimming laps while other Luther swimmers cheered them on.