2023-25 Leadership Team

Ray is a transplant from London. He was a Rye Resident for 20 years and started the Club in 2006 originally as the Rye Y Tri Club. The club was restructured as a 501c3 in 2012 as the Rye Tri Club. Ray’s first Triathlon was at the 1993 Westchester Sprint Triathlon and from then continued to complete 20 Ironman races including Kona and multiple 70.3’s including the World Championships. He is passionate about The Rye Tri Club and it’s Mission Statement. Ray is a Certified Level 2 USAT, USAC and ASCA coach and Level 2 Training Peaks accredited.

Ken Harris

Vice President
Ken was born raised and educated in Dublin Ireland. After completing an apprenticeship in Carpenter & Joiner and faced with a struggling economy and no real prospects of employment he emigrated to the USA to start a new life. Today he owns and operates a successful Residential Contracting & Property Management Business.
His young athlete life began playing Gaelic Football and Hurling before being encouraged by his father to take up running and following in the footsteps of great Irish athletes. He ran his first marathon in Dublin at the age of 15 (3.17). At 18 ran again ran the Dublin Marathon in blistering 2.43.09. A 1.12.00 Half Marathon before leaving to go stateside. With no training he ran the NYC Marathon in 1988 (3.09)
With raising a family and running a business life got in the way and running took a back seat. Ken is the father 4 beautiful young adult children, 3 daughters and a son.
After 2005 after years of inactivity, weight gain he borrowed a mountain bike and stared riding. Soon after he met Ray Kelly and everything changed. Ken had a very serious phobia of water and never learned how to swim. Ray was instrumental in teaching him and opened so many possibilities. Ken set his goal to participate in the Westchester Triathlon in 2010 to which he did.
In 2013 he successfully completed his first Lake Placid Ironman (with a bike split of 5.40) and has since gone on to finish 5 full distance Ironman events 4 in Lake Placid and 1 in Mont Tremblant…7 months after a full knee replacement. In 2014 he contracted a MERCA infection which was devastating nearly causing him to loss his leg. He has since had the other knee replaced and is back better than ever.
In 2023 Ken successfully competed in the World Triathlon Championships in Ibiza Spain finishing 33rd overall and ranking 5th in his AG for TEAM USA, the same ranking Nationally.
"I am so very blessed to do this sport as it has opened so many opportunities for me and it truly is my place of serenity. Its a place i can go solve life’s everyday challenges, it’s a place I can be alone in my thoughts but yet be surrounded by some many great positive encouraging people”
Other interests and passions include, cooking, soccer, travel, living one day at a time and staying in the moment. One little known fact about Ken, he is also a Zamboni driver.

Graeme is originally from Edinburgh in Scotland where he went to school and university. He moved to London in 1991 where he married his wife Ana in 1993. Jamie and Gemma were born in 2000, and, in 2002, the family moved to South Bucks about 30 miles west of the city.

In August 2009 they left the UK to start a new adventure in the USA, first to Lake Forest, north of Chicago and then, four years later, to Rye.

Graeme has been competing in triathlons as an age-group athlete since 2003. He started with a sprint distance and worked up, over several years, to Ironman distance.

Along the way, he has also:

Completed marathons in London, Paris, Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia
Taken part in 3 L’etape du Tours - single day stages of the Tour De France for cycling enthusiasts
Several Cyclosportifs including Amstel Gold in the Netherlands and Tour Of Flanders in Belgium.

He completed is first Ironman triathlon in Nice, France in 2008 and followed it up with additional races in St. George, Utah; Woodlands, Texas; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Lake Tahoe, California; Madison, Wisconsin; and Lake Placid, NY. In 2018 he was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to take part in the Ironman World Championships in Kona, his 15th Ironman.

Apart from spending time with his family Graeme’s other hobbies are Skiing, Golf, watching almost any sport, good food and wine.

Gil has been an avid swimmer all his life, competing when he was younger and in college at the University of Pennsylvania before taking time off to complete his medical training in pediatrics and pediatric cardiology. He has been a practicing physician in these fields as well as emergency medicine and urgent care.

He first became interested in triathlon and distance events in 2012 after watching a friend’s race and joined RTC soon after in preparation for his first Olympic distance race, the Westchester Triathlon. Since that time, he has completed many Sprint to Half-Ironman distance races. Although his background is in swimming, he has challenged himself and completed multiple running and cycling races including a dozen half marathons, the NYC Marathon, and several century bike events including the Mt. Washington Century+ ride.

His passion has always been for the water. Although open water distance swimming has been a later in life interest, he has completed multiple 1.6k to 10k swim events, including a crossing of the great South Bay from the Fire Island light house to Bayshore Long Island, multiple Fire Island Ocean swims, Hudson River distance swims, and a Casco Bay crossing in Portland, ME, with hopes of many more.

One of the highlights of his triathlon experiences has been his ability to train with and successfully compete with his kids in relay events. He has also enjoyed using his medical skills in giving back to the sporting community volunteering at many events including the NYC Marathon, NY Empire State Games, Maccabee Games, Ironman NYC, NYC Triathlon, PGA & USGA events, CAF San Diego Tri Challenge and local events such as the Mamaroneck Schools Foundation Triathlon.

Gil lives in Larchmont with his wife Martha, teenagers Rebecca, Adam and Jonah, and sometimes running companion Cody, an Australian Shephard.

Sally Loftin is an accountant specializing in the architecture and engineering field. She joined a running group in 2016 where she met some amazing women who inspired her to do more. She rekindled her love of biking and swimming, something she had always enjoyed as a kid. She became a member of the Rye Tri Club in 2018, joining Louise on Tuesdays for bike rides and Cathy on Thursdays for open water swimming; she became a triathlete in August 2018 after completing the Jersey Girl Tri.

Due to back and knee injuries, Sally can't run but she’s a super fast walker who has completed several 5ks, 10ks, 3 half marathons and 4 sprint triathlons since 2016. She was set to do her first olympic tri in 2020 but that was derailed due to covid.

Sally lives in Yonkers with her dog Chips and has a daughter, Cassandra, who became a registered nurse in 2020. Sally is an avid dog lover, she enjoys spending time with friends and also enjoys time at home, curled up with a good book or watching Netflix shows. She is looking forward to nicer weather so that she can get back into her routine of walking, biking and swimming.

Sally is excited to join the board as treasurer, this is her way of giving back to the group that helped her become a triathlete.