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Spencer Wood - A stroke in the womb to Paralympic World Cup gold!
Spencer Wood ended up with an absolutely awful haircut as part of a rookie initiation to the World Cup tour. The rules were, he had to keep the cut until he reached th...
Cindy Ehnes - First American Women to win Gold in Paralympic Alpine Skiing
Cindy Ehnes was the first American woman to win Gold in a Winter Paralympics. Her speed might have been a result of being a Bonne Bell girl, the sporty, outdoor group ...
Joe Bieganek - President and Founder of Aspen Seating & Ride Designs
Wheelchair innovator Joe Bieganek was a cop before he became a seating specialist. He turns perception of disability upside down by giving paras and amputees the conne...
Marko Cheseto - A talented runner with an incredible story.
Marko Cheseto lost his cousin to suicide while they were both running at the University of Alaska. Deep in grief, he took some anti-depressants and went for a long run...
Curtis Gunn - Founder Shot Modeling & Beauty Innovator!
Curtis Gunn just wanted to change beauty. Well, he didn’t want to change it as much as he wanted to show beautiful people who might not have been previously noticed. T...
Tabi Haly - A soulful singer-songwriter with muscular dystrophy.
Tabitha (Tabi) Haly is a software engineer and coder with JPMorgan Chase — and she also is a singer-songwriter and a disability advocate. Tabi was born with Muscular D...
Alexa Halko - 3x Paralympic medalist headed to Tokyo!
The youngest track and field athlete in Rio at 16, but came away with two silvers and a bronze. Five years later Alexa Halko looks to put her stamp on these Games. She...
Manny Guerra - US Sled Hockey Goalie, Gold Medalist, Hall of Fame!
The 2002 US Sled Hockey Team only qualified for the Paralympics because they were the host country. Goalie Manny Guerra represented the last line of defense. Defend an...
Kendall Gretsch - An historic triathlon finish in Tokyo and so much more!
While Triathlon was Kendall Gretsch’s first love, she’d already won Paralympic medals in second sport of cross-country before she had the chance to demonstrate just ho...
Tanja Kari - One Armed Cross-country skier, too fast for the Paralympics?
Tanja Kari didn’t care that she was a one-armed cross-country skier growing up in native Finland, she just cared that she was one of the twenty fastest in the country....
Orlando Perez - First Puerto Rican to compete in the Winter Paralympics
In 2022, Orlando Perez became the first Puerto Rican to compete in the Winter Paralympics. He turned perception of disability upside down, switching from basketball t...
Andrew Haraghey - Paralympian Alpine Skiing!
Andrew Haraghey might ski better than he walks. The Paralympic athlete with Cerebral Palsy turns perception of disability upside down by being a speed specialist. Even...
Muffy Davis - 7-time Paralympian in Skiing and Hand-cycling
Muffy Davis became a more successful Paralympian handcycling in one Games than she had in a lifetime as a ski racer. She turned perception of disability upside down by...
Jaleen Roberts - Tokyo bound athlete and future role model
Difficult times forced Jumpin’ Jay to determine her why. It’s to be a role model--to be the person that she wished she’d known when she was a kid. She’s been through a...
Adam Bleakney - Wheelchair racing coach at the University of Illinois
Adam coaches the University of Illinois, the most successful wheelchair racing program in the world and a school that has set the standard for educating people with di...
David Brown - World Record Holder & Fastest Blind Athlete in the World!
David Brown is the fastest blind athlete in the world. He was the first to go sub 11 seconds for the 100 meters, but he learned something new in quarantine. He learned...
Lacey Henderson - Lacey is a Paralympian, Speaker, Model and Sport and Performance Psychology Professional.
Lacey Henderson is an alternate for the Tokyo Paralympics. She was on the bubble for Rio too, but that doesn’t mean that she won’t make some noise if she gets there. S...
Ann Cody - Wheelchair Racing Legend, Special Advisor for International Disability Rights at the State Department
Ann Cody is Special Advisor for International Disability Rights at the State Department, but she was also one of the top wheelchair athletes for years. She’s been shap...
Robert Molinatti - The Voice of Wheelchair Racing, Paralympian, and Marathon Champion
Bob is a US Army veteran and served from 1976-1978 when he sustained a spinal cord injury in an automobile accident. Post-injury he moved to California and earned a de...
Josh George - Gold Medalist, World Champion, Entrepreneur, Motivational Speaker
Josh George moves fast. At the age of four he traded in walking for rolling and then turned those wheels into wings, constantly striving to move faster. Josh has won f...
Dana Lawson - A true survivor and educator!
Dana lost her leg to cancer, but leaving her abusive marriage was more difficult than cancer recovery and amputation. An educator at heart, she’s shifted to empower ot...
Kendall Gretsch - An historic triathlon finish in Tokyo and so much more...
Kendall Gretsch is not one to go to sleep without solving the problem. In Tokyo, she solved a math problem of epic proportions to make up four minutes and four seconds...
Bobby McMullen - The incomparable, legendary Bobby McMullen returns to Nametags!
Have you ever heard of a blind downhill mountain bike racer? Bobby has raced every major downhill mountain bike race, broken more bones than Evil Knievel, battled canc...
Raymond Martin - Wheelchair Racing Champion... with one eye closed!
Ray is the kind of guy who solves problems. In his first Paralympic Games, he lined up next to the fastest starter in the world for the 100 meters. Not wanting the oth...
Rob Balucas - From ‘every-man joe’ to extraordinary paratriathlete!
Rob Balucas is an ‘every-man joe’ who was thrust into extraordinary circumstances in 2015 when a cycling accident rendered him paraplegic. At the time he was training ...
Dave Kiley - Wheelchair Basketball Legend & 9 Paralympic Gold Medals, 2 Silvers and 2 Bronze
David Kiley, aka DK, began his love affair with basketball straight out of the womb. Raised in Costa Mesa in SoCal, DK played the sport from morning to evening on the ...
Marlon Shirley - Gold Medalist, ESPY Winner & UN named “The Role Model for the 21st Century"
Marlon Shirley was the first amputee sprinter under 11 seconds for the hundred meters. He stood on top of the world with gold in 2000 and 2004, but his story of being ...
Nick Catanzarite - 2 x Paralympian Ski Racing is now a Grand County Judge!
Two-time Paralympian Nick Catanzarite took the 2007-2008 season off to do something that he would consider to be harder than ski racing - his first year of law school....
Shams Aalem - World record holder for longest open sea swimming by paraplegic person!
Shams Aalam has a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering & MBA in HR & Operations. Shams is a world record holder for longest open sea swimming by paraplegic person, an intern...
Roy Tuscany - Founder of High Fives Foundation. Over 500 athletes served!
Roy Tuscany is the co-founder of High Fives Foundation which has helped over 150 athletes recover from paralyzing injuries. In 2006, he suffered a devastating spinal c...