Member 2009 - 2019
2019 - NE LMSC Frank Wuest Open Water Swimming Award
2018 – Inducted into the Vermont Open Water Swimming Hall of Fame
2021 - Kingdom Swim 25K, Lake Willoughby 30.6K
2018 - 2016 - End WET Red River Swim 58K, Massachusetts Bay 37K
2015 & 2018 - 8 Bridges Hudson River Swim (18.3 Miles, 19.8 Miles, 13.2 Miles, 15.0 Miles, 19.8 Miles, 15.7 Miles, 18.6 Miles
2015 - Swim the Suck 16.6K
2013 – Ice Mile Boston Harbor, Cape Circumnavigation Challenge 24.3K
2013 & 2019 - SCAR Swim Challenge (Saguaro Lake 15.2K, Canyon Lake 14.4K, Apache Lake 27.3K, Roosevelt Lake 10K)
2012 - Cape Cod Bay 30.5K
2011 - Lake Memphremagog 40.2K, Great Salt Lake Marathon Swim 13K, Manhattan Island Marathon Swim 45.9K
2010 - Boston Light 25.2K, Catalina Channel 32.3K
2009 & 2010 - Kingdom Swim 16.1K
2006 & 2008 - Boston Light Swim 12.6K
Founder and former president of Massachusetts Open Water Swimming Association
Former Race Director of the Boston Light Swim
Revived the cross Caps Cod Bay swim
Pioneered the first Massachusetts Bay 25-mile swim from Gloucester to Scituate
First 4-way crossing (20 miles) of Lake Willoughby in Vermont
Key volunteer for Northeast Kingdom events (safety director for the winter swim, always on the support boats for the Kingdom swim, etc.)
Greg O'Connor is a 56-year-old husband, father, cancer research scientist, handyman, marathon swimmer, ice swimmer and contributor. He is a member of the Wayland Community Pool Masters group. For 10 years, O’Connor was the organizer of Boston Light Swim, the oldest marathon swim in North America, the founder of the Massachusetts Open Water Swimming Association, a co-founder of Vampire Swim, and a regular L Street swimmer in Boston.
He is an accomplished and recognized ultra-marathon swimmer, having completed the Catalina Channel, MIMS, END-WET, SCAR (twice), completed the 25-mile In Search of Memphre in 2011, the 20-mile Cape Code Bay (P2P), first to cross the 23-mile Massachusetts Bay, completed the entire 120-mile 8-Bridges Swim and set the co-record with Elaine Howley in the Boston Light 16-mile double crossing for which he has been acknowledged by IMSHOF and WOWSA. The fastest BLS Double is currently held by Alana Aubin. He was the first to complete a four-way (20-mile) Lake Willoughby crossing in 2021. O'Connor completed an Ice Mile under the auspices of the International Ice Swimming Association in South Boston on 6 April 2013. He has helped organize the annual Memphremagog Winter Swim Festival since 2016 and the annual Boston Frogman Swim since 2019. He has acted as the safety officer, observer and escort in countless open water events.
Greg O'Connor had the honor of being selected as the 2014 Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association Unsung Hero of the Year. He was named a 2014 MSF Global Marathon Swimming Award finalist in the Streeter Award for Service to Marathon Swimming category. Greg was nominated as a finalist for the 2016 Yudovin Award for Most Adventurous Swim award by the Marathon Swimmers Federation for the first solo trans-Massachusetts Bay crossing from Gloucester to Strawberry Point, Scituate, a swim of 24.2 miles in 14 hours 55 minutes on 15 August 2016. He was also nominated for the Streeter Award for Service to Marathon Swimming in 2016 by the Marathon Swimmers Forum. He was inducted in the Vermont Open Water Swimming Hall of Fame in 2018. O’Connor was an honored 2019 recipient of the Frank Wuest Open Water Swimming Award sponsored by NELMSC.