Pat Sanders was a world champion in the sport of curling and she has been described as perhaps the greatest female shot maker in the world. She led her Racquet Club of Victoria rink to the 1987 B.C. championship where she defeated the 1985 women's world champion, Linda Moore of North Vancouver. Pat had previously made it is far as the B.C. women's championships in 1981, 1983 and 1984. She easily won the Canadian women's championship in Lethbridge in 1987 and went on to the world championship in Chicago where she blew away all the competition. Pat's team included third Georgina Hawkes, second Louise Herlinveaux, lead Deb Massullo and spare Elaine Jackson.

Kim was a late start but once she got going, she never looked back. At age 11 she "dove into the deep end" and with dogged persistence and dedication she finally found her niche through coach Ron Jacks who suggested she try to swim a 25km marathon in Canada. Marathon swimming involved swimming distances from a minimum of 25km to a maximum of 88km.

The best way to describe her first swim in Lac Memphrmagog is that "ignorance is bliss." Kim was 19 years old and she finished well ahead of many swimmers; men included! Joyfully, her amazing first marathon swim took her on an eight year journey swimming all over the world in oceans, lakes, rivers, lagoons and canals. She got to see what a magnificent world this truly is; even though the view was mostly from the water.

Some of her finest swims included:

-1990, 25km Lac Memphremagog, Magog, Quebec. 5hr 47min 06sec. 2nd woman, 3rd overall.

- 1993 25km PAN PACIFIC CHAMPIONSHIPS/PRE-WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, Sabaudia to Terracina, Italy. 7hr 48min. 40 sec. 2nd woman, 7th overall. This gave her an automatic selection for the 1994 Canadian Team - World Championships.

- 1995 26km Marathon Acuatica Internacional, Mar Del Plata, Argentina. 5hr 45min 51sec. 1st woman.