FOX 9 — A swimmer from Excelsior, Minnesota, is really going the distance.
For four hours a day, seven days a week, Sandra Bergquist is in the water–but now, all that training appears to have paid off.
Over the weekend, Berquist came in first place in the Global Swim Series Global Championships in Cancun, Mexico.
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After swimming competitively at Eden Prairie High School and St. Cloud State, Berquist fell in love with open water swimming 12 years ago when one of her coaches invited her to a 5-mile open swim on Lake Minnetonka.
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