USMS Pool All American Honors – 1 year individual
USMS Long Distance All American Honors – 1 year (1 individual)
USMS Top Ten Achievements – 32 individual2014 English Channel two-way solo crossing – 26 hours 21 minutes
2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019 South Head Rough Water swim
2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019 South Head Rough Water swim
2011 Rottnest Channel (Perth Australia) – 19.7km
2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019 South Head Roughwater (Sydney) solo– 10km
2013, 2015 South Head Roughwater (Sydney) Duo– 10km
2010 Bridge to Beach (Sydney Harbour) – 10.4km
2009 Santa Barbara swim – 16 miles Santa Barbara to Ventura
2008, 2010, 2012 English Channel one-way solo
2007 Lake George Marathon Swim
2005, 2006, 2010 Boston Light Swim – 8 miles
2006 St Vincent’s Swim Across the Sound Swim – 25km
Swam 50 x 400M on her 50th birthday
Hailing from New Haven, Connecticut, Dori has been a competitive swimmer from 11 years of age. She attained an athletic swimming scholarship to the University of Maryland. A testament to her tenacity and commitment to swimming, Dori has swum the English Channel five times, including a grueling two-way swim in 2016 in 26 hours and 21 minutes.
Dori migrated to Sydney, Australia in 2009, and immediately got involved with ocean swimming and surf lifesaving. She joined the Bondi Surf Club in 2010. She has won more than 50 gold medals in Australian Masters Surf Life Saving and Pool Rescue championships (6 world records) and Masters World Lifesaving Championships. She was named NSW Surf Lifesaving Masters Athlete of the Year in 2014 and was inducted into Surf Life Saving Australia Hall of Fame – Masters Legend in 2022.
In addition to participating in ocean swims, Dori is the race director for the Bondi Blue Water Challenge, a fundraising event for Bondi Surf Club, held at Bondi Beach Australia in February each year. The event, which includes 500m, 1.5km and 3km race distances, draws 600 swimmers to swim at the iconic beach.
Dori is a consummate athlete in the water and on land competing in Ironman Wisconsin, and eight running marathons, including the Boston Marathon five times and the Philadelphia Marathon two times.