Roy Perkins, newly named to the 2010 World Championship team is shown poised on the blocks at the 2008 Paralympics.
Photograph courtesy of Randy Richardson, Hanger Prosthetics & Orthotics.
The Can-Am National Swimming Championships are over, but their legacy is just the beginning of a long journey for some champion adaptive swimmers. The March 25-27 event, held in San Antonio, Texas, saw U.S athletes breaking 19 world, Pan-American, and American swimming records, and set 27 of them on the road to the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming World Championships, which will be held in Eindhoven, Netherlands, August 15-21, 2010. According to U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) writer Katie Breitbach, 25 of these athletes previously competed in Beijing’s 2008 Paralympic Games.
Following are the World Championship team rosters:
Women
- Cheryl Angelelli (Clinton Township, Michigan)
- Kelley Becherer (Sheboygan, Wisconsin)
- Anna Eames (Valley, Minnesota)
- Amanda Everlove (Wichita, Kansas)
- Deb Gruen (Hamden, Connecticut)
- Casey Johnson (Cypress, California)
- Cortney Jordan (Henderson, Nevada)
- Beth Kolbe (Tiffin, Ohio)
- Jessica Long (Baltimore, Maryland)
- Ashley Owens (Stockbridge, Georgia)
- Erin Popovich (Silverbow, Montana)
- Susan Beth Scott (Cape Girardeau, Missouri)
- Elizabeth Stone (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
- Miranda Uhl (Alachua, Florida)
- Mallory Weggemann (Eagan, Minnesota)
- Kayla Wheeler (Seattle, Washington)
- Cody Bureau (Latrobe, Pennsylvania)
- Michael DeMarco (San Diego, California)
- Tucker Dupree (Raleigh, North Carolina)
- Rudy Garcia-Tolson (Riverside, California)
- Lantz Lamback (Augusta, Georgia)
- Curtis Lovejoy (Atlanta, Georgia)
- Roy Perkins (Del Mar, California)
- Jarrett Perry (Wichita, Kansas)
- Philip Scholz (Mt. Sinai, New York)
- Joe Wise (Menlo Park, California
- Justin Zook (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida)
