COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO – U.S. Paralympics Swimming today announced the dates and location of the 2025 U.S. Paralympics Swimming National Championships. The prestigious competition, which will feature many of the country’s top Para swimmers, will be...
Cara Pennington was 5 years old when she first started swimming, the same age at which she learned she had a tumor in her spine.Surgeons removed the tumor, which was cancerous, but the operation paralyzed her left leg. Pennington got infections in the ...
Emma Roberts and her family scheduled their flight home from the U.S. Paralympics Swimming National Championships in Orlando during the afternoon of the last day of the meet.That meant they’d miss the finals, but this being Roberts’ first time at natio...
Katie Kubiak walked across the pool deck at the Rosen Aquatic & Fitness Center in Orlando for what she thought was her final meet ever.She didn’t want her swimming career to be over.She was only a freshman in high school. She wanted to keep swimmin...
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO – U.S. Paralympics Swimming today announced the 49 athletes – 31 women and 18 men – named to its 2025 national team roster. The 2025 team features 28 athletes who represented Team USA at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games last s...
As the top U.S. athletes competed for their chance to make the 2024 Paralympic swim team this past summer at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center on the University of Minnesota campus, Koehn Boyd served as a volunteer runner.His job was to collect the pr...
Every other week we scour the web for the latest going on in the world of U.S. Para swimming. Here’s what you missed!Meeting Her HeroHadley Larsen is a little girl with osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease, which also affects McKenzie Coan....
Aiden Stivers laughs when asked about his favorite food to eat before a swim meet.The answer is Chipotle, but the reason he laughs is because it was the one nugget that broadcasters pulled from his information sheet during the livestream at the U.S. Pa...
When Hope College freshman Aaron Thomas qualified for the U.S. Paralympic Team Trials this past summer, he knew it was with an outside shot of making the team that would travel to Paris.But as an up-and-comer in the world of Para swimming, it was an op...
Every other week we scour the web for the latest going on in the world of U.S. Para swimming. Here’s what you missed!Nationals In ReviewWhat a spectacular year it was for U.S. Para swimmers.The main event, of course, happened this summer in Paris at th...
