Carpe Natare
Claudine Style

Carpe Natare-Claudine Style is a virtual swimming event to celebrate the life of Claudine and show support and love for her young children!

The concept is simple: 

On June 12th (Claudine’s Birthday), wherever you are, find a body of water and take a dip, swim, or plunge! It could be splashing in a puddle, swimming in a pool, sitting in a hot tub, jumping in a lake, or diving in the ocean!  You are limited by your creativity (and where life has you on that day)!  Capture your way of participating by posting a message, picture, or video on the participant website on or after the day.  

Why Carpe Natare (seize the swim)?  What better way to celebrate someone who loved to swim and approached life with a Carpe Diem mentality!

Claudine started swimming when she was 8 years old and loved the water. Her kind, loving, fearless spirit embraced every moment of every day! She spent her life caring for others including family, friends, patients, and many times, total strangers.  She cherished every moment that she had with those she loved.  She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2022. She fought long and hard all the way to the end, passing away in 2025. 

She would not want anyone to mourn her death but to celebrate her life!  Her spirit lives on in all those who knew her but especially her two children.  Being only 1 and 3 years old when she was diagnosed, she worried about not having enough time to show them how much love she had for them and how to live life to the fullest!  

This is how Carpe Natare-Claudine Style Virtual Swim came to be.  This event has all that Claudine enjoyed and would want - a way to bring people together (regardless of where they are in the world), a chance to play in water (in the most creative ways), an avenue to come together to share stories (and memories), all while providing a way to support to her children.