Auteur: Cynthia Lewis

Nancy Gardner is called the Energizer Bunny by her colleagues at work.  At 27 years of age (she started counting down at the age of 40), she still feels youthful in her bikini.  An avid runner and Y member, she does her best ab workout during the Bikini Team “tanning bed” sessions when team members put their floats together, laze in the pool, and laugh till it hurts.   Ann Haley is the founder, chief executive officer, and coach of the Bikini Team.  She has spent countless hours developing and perfecting the extremely precise and demanding Bikini Team Spring Training Regime.  Coach Haley leads the Team through this program each spring, ensuring that members will be physically, emotionally, and spiritually prepared for the rigorous season of tanning and relaxing ahead.   Cynthia Lewis is a professor of English and a non-fiction writer.  As the newest member of the Bikini Team, she annually wins “Rookie of the Year” at the Awards Ceremony.  She aspires to “Player of the Year.”   Lina Soares—or “Mrs. Clean, ” as she is known on the Bikini Team—is a teacher of the gifted and a doctoral student in curriculum instruction.  She tears herself away from “powering down”—vacuuming, mowing the grass, and herding dust bunnies—to attend Bikini Team meetings faithfully.