Teen swimmer Hayden Gill of Middletown will present the Amy Lynn Gill Award at the July 13 annual Andy Rooney Swim Meet.
Hayden, who has swum in the race since she was nine years old, will be a competitor in the mile swim again this year. Should she be the first-place finisher, she will receive the award named for her mother, the late Amy Lynn Gill, but it will be presented by Hayden’s father, Brian Gill.
The Amy Lynn Gill Award is one of several which will be awarded following the one mile and two-mile swims, which get underway at 7:30 at Sea Bright’s public beach.
Registration for the competition is limited to 200 swimmers with the first 125 to receive the swim meet tee shirt.
The Amy Lynn Gill Award will be presented to the first-place female in the one-mile swim, the Mike Hudson Award will be presented to the first place male in the one mile swim. Awards will be given to the top five male and top five female finishers of both the one- and two-mile swims. Wetsuit wearers will be in a separate division with awards for the top three overall male and female swimmers.
For more information on the Swim meet, or to register, visit For more information visit https://raceforum.com/sbswim
All participants can download their finished certificates with award placements for each event.
Hayden, a student at Red Bank Catholic High School, trains for swimming with the NJRC in Tinton Falls. Many of her fellow swimmers at the Tinton Falls facility are registered for the Andy Rooney Meet.
Tee shirts that are for sale, along with chances on a 50-50. All proceeds will benefit the Amy Lynn Gill Scholarship for the Hazlet Board of Education where Amy was a teacher at the time of her death in January.
Raised in Atlantic Highlands, Amy Lynn Gill attended St. Agnes School and Mater Dei High School, before earning her degree at Keystone College and Kean University where she earned her master’s degree in special education. She taught for more than 24 years in the Hazlet school district’s special education program and also coached the swim program at Raritan High School.
Following the race, at 2 p.m. at the Proving Ground, Shrewsbury Avenue, Highlands, interested persons are invited to join the Gill family in celebrating what would have been Amy’s 50th birthday. Tee shirts will also be available for sale at that event.
