Issaquah Swim Team Remembers Ben Gore

Our coaching staff learned yesterday that Ben Gore a former Sockeye swimmer presumably lost his life in a glissading accident on Aasgard Pass in Chelan County over the weekend.  He was a member of the Issaquah Swim Team from 2006-2009 and still holds several IST records.  Ben moved to Mercer Island and continued to swim with Olympic Cascade Aquatics.  He was a 2016 graduate of Mercer Island High School and had recently switched to the Central Area Aquatics Team last fall.  Ben has been an active member of USA Swimming and Pacific Northwest Swimming since 2006.  The Gore family was a swimming family as his sister was a Sockeye and his dad was an official for several years.  Ben’s tenacity towards swimming is the one thing that our coaching staff remembers the most about him.   It’s a tragic loss for all who knew Ben and our thoughts are with his family during this time.