2012 - Present
USMS Long Distance All Star Honors – 1 Year
USMS All American Honors – 2 Years, 2 Individual
USMS Long Distance All American Honors – 1 Year, 1 Individual
USMS Top Ten Achievements – 91 Individual
Previous USMS National Positions
Long Distance Committee
USMS Awards and Recognition Received
2025 Dorothy Donnelly Service Award
2019 June Krauser Communications Award
USMS Certified Coach – Level 1, 2 & 3
USMS Adult Learn to Swim Instructor
NELMSC Board Member – 2018-2025
Board Chair – 2021-2023
Communications Chair – 2018-2020
NELMSC Awards & Recognition
2025 Appreciation Award
2022 Frank Wuest Open Water Swimming Award
Open Water Swims
Solo Swims
2024 Around Nahant, course record 3:43:36
2019 Double Boston Light Swim, course record 6:18:01
USMS National Championships
2019 USMS Long Distance All Star for F25-29
2019 Sprint Distance (1mi) at Lake Willoughby 9th woman, 2nd in 25-29
2019 Long Distance (5 mi) at Lake Willoughby 10th woman, 2nd in 25-29
2019 Marathon Distance (10km) at Bridges to Bluffs in Tennessee, 10th woman, 3rd in 25-29
Kingdom Swim
2022 6th overall, 4th woman (25km Border Buster)
2021 1st overall, 1st woman (10km)
2018 2nd overall, 1st woman (10km)
2017 3rd overall, 2nd woman (10km)
2016 5th overall, 2nd woman (10km)
Winter Swimming Festival
2022 1st overall in 50m freestyle
Boston Light Swim
2018 4th overall, 1st woman
Swim with a Mission
2019 1st overall (10km)
Glen Lake Swim (2 mile)
2023 3rd overall woman
2021 2nd overall woman
Charles River Swim (1 mile)
2016 1st overall
2015 2nd overall
Other podium finishes:
2024 Champion of Champions (12 miles), 1st overall
2024 Nubble Light Challenge, 3rd woman
2018 Nubble Light Challenge, 2nd woman
2017 Landshark 2-mile Swim, 3rd woman
2016 Alcatraz Classic, 3rd woman
Alana is a longtime competitive swimmer from Massachusetts who has achieved substantial success in both pool and open water events, making significant contributions to local and national Masters and open water swimming communities.
A competitive pool swimmer since childhood, Alana began swimming at age 10 with the Boys & Girls Club of Taunton. She competed for Taunton High School and later in NCAA Division III at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Captain of the WPI team for two years, she held four individual and five relay school records upon graduation and won the Patricia A. Graham Sportsmanship Award, given each year to an outstanding senior woman athlete.
Alana transitioned to Masters Swimming after college, competing with Worcester Area Masters and Charles River Aquatic Masters before joining the Boston University Masters Swimming program. She started open water swimming after college through a brief stint in triathlon before diving into marathon distrances with a 10K swim in 2016.
As a dedicated volunteer, Alana helps grow the sport in New England by serving as vice president and treasurer of the nonprofit, volunteer-run Massachusetts Open Water Swimming Association. In those roles, she manages financial and business operations and helps organize several annual events, including the flagship Boston Light Swim —an 8-mile race across Boston Harbor that was first staged in 1907.
Alana is also a USMS Level 3 coach, with more than eight years of coaching experience avross WPI, WAM, CRM, and the Belmont Aquatic and Commonwealth Swimming age-group teams.
Professionally, Alana works as a data analyst. She and her husband recently welcomed their first child, a daughter. Outside of swimming and motherhood, shis is a multi-instrumentalist who enjoys playing the trombone, guitar, piano, and ukulele. Her other personal interests inlcud cycling, traveling, and walking her dog, Maple.