and, in doing so, is competing against seven other South Carolina Midlands candidates to raise the most amount of money in aReen said she's swimming for a family friend named Santino Rodriguez, who is fighting leukemia at six years old.
"I am swimming 27 miles because Santino's baseball number is 27," she said."So, the vision came at the very beginning of this when I decided to run in honor of him and wanted to play around with 27. So, I got the idea to swim 27 miles one mile at a time and wanted the finale to be something pretty big, and it's really bigger than I thought it would be. I can't believe all the support that came out. It's very encouraging.