By Bill Lindelof, Sacramento Bee

A girl from the tiny community of Lotus, El Dorado County, hopes to make a big splash by becoming one of the youngest people to swim from Alcatraz to San Francisco on Memorial Day.

Nine-year-old Jordan Freer will enter the water from a boat with 350 adults competing in an organized swim near the famed island in San Francisco Bay about 8am on Monday.

About 1.5 miles later, if all works out the way as planned, young Jordan will have made her way through the cold, salty waters to a beach at the Presidio. Her father, Tom, will be swimming right next to her.

Jordan has been on a swim team since she had been 4 years old. To prepare for Monday’s swim, she has been training at Folsom Lake.

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