Paralympic Games
Update: Tatyana McFadden won a Bronze medal in the 100m.
Update: Muffy Davis, a Tri Delta, has won two Gold medals for hand cycling at the 2012 Paralympics. Tatyana McFadden won her third Gold medal. Allison Aldrich, Delta Zeta, won a Silver medal as part of the women’s sitting volleyball team.
Update: Tatyana McFadden won her second Gold, this time in the 800 meter race.
Update: Tatyana McFadden, a Phi Sigma Sigma at the University of Illinois won the Gold medal in the 400 meter race. She has a bronze and three silver medals from the 2008 games and a silver and bronze from the 2004 competition. Her time in the 400 was 52.97 seconds and it was her personal best. She is also making history competing in the 100, 400, 800, 1,500 and marathon.
At least three National Panhellenic Conference women will be participating in the Paralympic Games in London beginning on August 29 and ending on September 9. If you are aware of other NPC women who will be competing, please let me know.
Allison Aldrich, U.S. Paralympic Sitting Volleyball, Delta Zeta, Nebraska Wesleyan – She lost her right leg to cancer when she was seven. She helped the U.S. team win a Silver Medal at the 2008 games. She is an avid athlete and is a member of the Nebraska Wesleyan golf team.
Muffy Davis, U.S. Paralympic Cycling, Delta Delta Delta, Stanford University – She was on track for being an Olympic skier when her dream was shattered and she was left paralyzed by a 1989 accident. She ski raced in the 1998 and 2002 Paralympics and won a total of four medals. She serves as an Ambassador for the International Paralympic Committee, one of 11 athletes world-wide to have that honor. This will be the first time she has competed in the cycling event at the Paralympics.
Tatyana McFadden, U.S. Paralympic Track & Field, Phi Sigma Sigma, University of Illinois – She won two medals in 2004 and four more in 2008. She will be competing in her first Paralympic marathon. Tatyana was born in St. Petersburg, Russia with an underdeveloped spinal cord. She was paralyzed below the waist and a hole in her spine. She spent the first six years of her life in a crowded orphanage. There wasn’t a wheelchair to use, so she learned to walk using her arms. She was adopted and brought to the U.S. in 1994 and she began her life in sports. Tatyana was a member of the University of Illinois’ wheelchair racing and wheelchair basketball teams. In 2004, she was 15 when she competed in her first Paralympic games. She won two medals.
