Category: Para Swimming
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I’m a Blind Collegiate Swimmer and a Paralympian | Colleen Young ’20
Colleen Young ’20 is a two-time Paralympian, six-time MAAC champion, and a senior communications major at Fairfield University.
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Western Alamance High swimmer who is missing part of right leg inspires others
A 16-year-old junior at Western Alamance High School is inspiring others with his swimming. https://youtu.be/KnT0zg54NsU
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Volvo Cars presents – Open Water
From Paralympic swimmer to Paralympic triathlete, Lauren Steadman shares her life on the elite circuit as well as the importance of looking after our planet’s oceans, lakes and waterways
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Bengaluru’s pool prince
News9 reporter Abhijit Singh Bhambra brings to you the story of para-athlete Punith Nandakumar who is a swimmer and wants to represent India at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. His struggles and journey to become one of Karnataka’s top swimmers despite being born with deformity.
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Falling to New Heights | Michelle Konkoly | TEDxJeffersonU
Learn how one woman’s persistence and determination led her to the 2016 Rio de Janiero Paralympic Games after a traumatic set-back. Michelle Konkoly is a third-year medical student at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, and a survivor of a traumatic spinal cord injury in 2011. Prior to beginning medical school, Michelle trained…
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Jacquie Marshall: Para Swimming Coach of the Year | British Swimming Awards 2019
Jacquie Marshall couldn’t be with us as she won Para-Swimming’s Coach of the Year accolade; but Ellie Robinson, Zara Mullooly and Maisie Summers-Newton, 3 of her swimmers, were on hand with some words on her behalf.
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Alice Tai – Athlete of the Year | British Swimming Awards 2019
Alice Tai was honoured with both the Para-Swimmer of the Year award and the prestigious Athlete of the Year prize at the British Swimming Awards – the first ever Para-Swimmer to win the overall award. We caught up with Alice to catch up on a history-making 2019