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Zach Miller - Paralympian, World Champion born with Left Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy
Zach Miller is a 24yr old snowboarder who was born with Left Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy. He discovered snowboarding through his treatment at Children’s Hospital Colorad...
Katrina Webb - Australian Sporting Legend!
As an Australian sporting legend, Katrina Webb is no stranger to a Gold medal podium or a star-lit stage. She has received awards and medals most athletes only dream a...
Joe LeMar - Paralympic Wheelchair Gold Medalist!
Paralympic Gold Medalist & Wheelchair Softball and Basketball Champion on the Nametags Chat Podcast with Chris Waddell.
Robert Enigl - 2022 Beijing Paralympic Monoskier & TGR film athlete!
I am a 38 year old Adaptive Athlete, Professional Monoskier, TeamUSA member, World Cup Ski Racer, USA National Alpine Ski team member and 2022 US Paralympic Ski team m...
Hoda Elshorbagy - Egyptian woman wheelchair racer!
Egyptian wheelchair racer now living and training in the US. Hoda shares her journey to coming to the US to train and compete and what the future holds for her!
Dan Berlin - Co-founder and President of Team See Possibilities, Ultra-marathoner and Triathlete
Dan is a co-founder and President of Team See Possibilities, a non-profit organization which empowers young people with vision loss to thrive by providing scholarship ...
Mike Schlappi - Motivational Speaker, Gold Medalist, Author!
When motivational speaker Mike Schlappi takes the floor, a dazzling smile greets you. Then you notice the wheelchair. If ever a man was defined by what he can do inste...
Liam Flanagan - Student Leader and Disability Advocate!
Monoskier with Cerebral Palsy and Varsity Wrestler at Andover High School.
Krige Schabort - Marathon Champion, Racing Wheelchair Designer, Father of a State Champ Runner!
Krige was born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa. He was an all-round sportsman excelling in athletics, rugby, squash and surfing. In 1987 Krige lost both his legs...
Tyler Byers - Paralympian, Marathoner, Mono-skier & Data Scientist!
Tyler Byers began racing at the age of nine. His first major road race was the Bloomsday 12K in Spokane, Wash., in 1992 - a race he's competed in ever since. Byers wen...
Michelle Konkoly - Paralympian, NBC Analyst, Med School Student!
Michelle Konkoly is a 4x Paralympic medalist and pediatric rehabilitation rehab resident physician. After a traumatic spinal cord injury in 2011 left her with permanen...
Arly Velasquez - 4 x Paralympian Winter Games for Mexico - 2 x National Champion US and Canada
Arly is a 4-time Winter Paralympian representing Mexico. He is an entrepreneur, baker, film director, healthy lifestyle promoter and much more! A 13 year sports career...
Paul Shulte - 3-time US Basketball Paralympian 2000, 2008, 2012
Paul is a three-time Paralympian competing in Sydney Australia, Beijing China, and London England. Also, he became a 2-time world champion and in 2002 was named most v...
Trischa Zorn - The most decorated Paralympian of all time.
Swimmer Trischa Zorn is the most successful athlete in the history of the Paralympic Games, having won 55 medals, including 41 gold medals, over seven Paralympics. Zor...
Mike Savicki - Boston Marathoner & First Ever Quadriplegic to do 70.3 Beach to Battleship Triathlon
Not only is he a 22-time finisher (and five-time division winner) of the prestigious BAA® Boston Marathon (making him the only person to have completed the marathon on...
Andrew Kurka - Round 3! Update on the Paralympic Downhill in Beijing!
Andrew Kurka joins us for round 3 on Nametags Chat. Andrew talks about his unfortunate crash in a training run in Beijing just minutes before his official downhill run...
Andrew Kurka - After a big training crash, Andrew updates us on his Journey to Beijing!
Andrew Kurka joins us for round 2, an update on his Paralympic Journey! Three-time Paralympian (2014, 2018, 2022); Two-time Paralympic medalist (1 gold, 1 silver)Paral...
Hannah Dederick - Youngest wheelchair racer on the U.S team!
Born in China Adopted Spent the first few years of my life in an orphanage then was adopted by an American Family at the age of 4 years old and was brought to the Unit...
Chuck Aoki - Chuck Aoki - Paralympian, Captain US Wheelchair Rugby Team
My name is Chuck Aoki, and I am originally from Minneapolis, MN, and I have used a wheelchair since the age of ten, due to a rare genetic condition. I am a three-time ...
Jamie Nieto - Olympian, Actor, Writer, Producer!
Jamie Nieto was born in Seattle, Washington and was raised as an only child in a single parent home in Sacramento, California. He’s a 2x Olympian, actor, writer and pr...
Jenna Fesemyer - Elite Wheelchair Racer and Marathoner!
Jenna was diagnosed with a congenital birth defect called Proximal Femoral Focal Deficiency from birth. This means that her left leg did not grow and she was born with...
Bob Babbit - Co-founder Challenged Athletes Foundation
Bob Babbit co-founded the Challenged Athletes Foundation, which has helped 60% of Team USA Tokyo 2020 Paralympics at some point in their careers with grants for equipm...
Monica Quimby - US Women's Sled Hockey Team & Miss Wheelchair Maine!
Monica Quimby reconciles the life of a former anatomy professor and former Miss Wheelchair Maine with being the current goon on the US Women's Sled Hockey Team, strivi...
Eli Wolff - Director of Power of Sport Lab & US Paralympic Soccer Team member!
Two-time Paralympian in CP Soccer Eli Wolff led the effort in 2019 for Major League Baseball to change the "disabled list" to the "injured list." What's in the word ch...
Kieth Gabel - World Champion, Paralympian, X Games Gold Medalist!
Keith Gabel swept the podium with his US teammates at snowboarding's inaugural Paralympics in Sochi 2014. Almost ten years later, you might think that Grizz is getting...
Josh Sweeney - Marine, Paralympian in Sled Hockey and XC Skiing, Gold Medalist!
Josh Sweeney grew up in Phoenix, AZ, joining the Marines directly after high school. He deployed to Afghanistan with 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines as a Scout Sniper in 20...
Stan Clawson - Artist, Filmmaker, Activist, Burning Man Utah Mover & Shaker
Stan Clawson is a Utah filmmaker with nearly 20 years of production experience. He owns his own freelance production company and is currently working on a documentary ...
John Register - Two-Sport 2 x Paralympian & Combat Army Vet!
John Register is a Silver medalist, two-time, two-sport Paralympic Athlete, two-time Olympic trials qualifier, combat Army veteran, amputee, and the founder of the Uni...
Connor Hogan - Connor has cerebral palsy, but nothing slows him down!
Connor Hogan’s tongue betrays him. It pokes out of his mouth when he’s skiing and mountain biking telegraphing his desired direction. The ski racer with Cerebral Palsy...