Category: Adapted Swimming
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Teen Swimmer Who Had Foot Amputated Makes School History | ABC 7 Chicago
When Naperville North Swimmer Reese Navarro tried out for the swim team, she didn’t know she would be making school history. “I just love the feeling of being able to glide through the water,” she said. The freshman is the first swimmer at the school to compete in the athletes with disabilities swimming events. Now…
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Para-Swimmer Lifts the Profile of Swimmers With an Intellectual Impairment (Being Me: Bailey Conlon) | Attitude
Growing up on the spectrum and with an intellectual impairment, Bailey Conlon felt like he was living in a world that wasn’t quite made for him, a world where he didn’t belong. Then he found swimming, and with it, he found his place, his purpose, his tribe – he feels he belongs. Now, with the…
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Team Nebraska Cheers on 13-Year-Old Athlete as She Competes in Transplant Games of America | KETV NewsWatch 7
Team Nebraska cheers on 13-year-old athlete as she competes in Transplant Games of America
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Can This Blind Swimmer Finish the Manhattan Island Marathon? | Absolute Documentaries
James Pittar is blind. He is also a long-distance swimmer. In his amazing career, he has swum across the English Channel and taken on sharks and oil tankers. When the reality hit James that he was going blind, he hid in his bedroom for two years – his fate was particularly cruel since his dad…
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Kaitlyn Weatherby Heading to Brazil for the Deaflympics | WNEP
A room in Passan Hall at Misericordia University was packed with graduate physical therapy students on Tuesday for a sendoff for one of their own.
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Local Swimmer Representing Wisconsin at Special Olympics Summer Games | NBC 26
Ryan Moon signed a letter of intent Thursday to make his joining Team Wisconsin official