ICE Hall of Fame - Honoree

Endurance and Extreme Sports Career

• She is a committee member of the Bristol Channel Swimming Association.
• She is certified as an IISA Official Observer L1 as of 1 March 2022.
• She was awarded the best all rounder as she competed at Sprint, Olympic, Ironman 70.3 and Ironman triathlons during the 2014 season.
• She is a member of Eleven Feet, a relay team that completed a 21-mile relaycrossing of the North Channel between Northern Ireland and Scotland in 12 hours 52 minutes, together with David Burke, Alison Caldwell, Adrian Poucher, Barry Patterson, and John McElroy under the leadership of Pádraig Mallon, and pilotsBrian Meharg and Mervyn Kinny under the auspices of the Irish Long Distance Swimming Association, together with support crew Chris Cooke, Milo McCourt, and Eoghan Jones in July 2014
• She completed the Ironman Barcelona 2014
• She completed the Ironman 70.3 Mallorca 2014
• She completed the Ice Kilometer at the 2015 Ireland Ice Swimming Championships
• She competed at the 2015 Pirita Open Winter Swimming Championships in Estonia
• She competed at the 2015 Russian Ice Swimming Championships in Murmansk
• She serves as the event director of the International Ice Swimming Association Ireland 1K National Championships, an ice swimming competition that is part of the global ice circuit
• She served as the support crew of the Triskelion relay of Olive Conroy (Ireland), Conor Turner (Ireland), Elina Makïnen (Finland), Anna-Carin Nordin (Sweden), Rory Fitzgerald (Ireland), and Carole Laporte (France) that crossed 69.7 km across the Irish Sea between the Isle of Man and Ardglass, Northern Ireland on 17-18 June 2017 in 18 hours 8 minutes and 32 seconds.
• She served as a support crew member for Ryan Stramrood's attempt of the North Channel.
• She completed a crossing from Alcatraz Island to Aquatic Park in San Francisco Bay, California on 10 November 2018 to culminate the Open Water Summit.

Jacqueline McClelland Links

• IISA BIO
• openwaterpedia