Rogers will compete in the 400 and 100 meters at the Paralympics in August.
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Coronavirus outbreak puts Christy Gardner’s Paralympic dream on hold in California
Lewiston native is stuck in the Golden State, where she was training for the Paralympics before the 2020 games were canceled, with an apartment lease that runs through September.
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Leeds native Carey coaching Paralympic skiers in Pyeongchang
Anyone who has followed high school skiing in Maine for the past two decades probably remembers Leavitt’s Eileen Carey, the Nordic skier from the Class of 2000 won four state championships as a Hornet and dominated the Maine Nordic skiing landscape her entire high school career. Fast forward to the present, and Carey was named […]
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Women’s sledge hockey holds tryouts in Lewiston
LEWISTON — Women all around the country are hitting the Androscoggin Bank Colisee this weekend as the USA Hockey’s Women’s Sledge Hockey Team holds tryouts for the upcoming season. The usually team holds it tryouts at the Schwan Super Rink in Blaine, Minn., which is outside of Minneapolis, but Lewiston native Christy Gardner, who has […]
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Norway para-athlete sprinting for the biggest stage
NORWAY — Local para-athlete Joshua Kennison is hoping new running blades — and a whole lot of work — will propel him to his sport’s biggest stage. The 25-year-old Oxford Hills graduate, Norway native and sprinter is training to qualify for the 2016 Paralympics in Brazil. A congenital quadrilateral amputee, Kennison was born without feet, so he […]
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Bethel woman to guide Benton skier in Paralympics in Sochi
BETHEL — Leading a vision-impaired skier down an Alpine race course at top speed is not for everyone. But Diane Barras of Bethel has mastered it, and thanks to good teamwork with skier Lindsay Ball, the two are headed to Sochi, Russia, later this month to compete in the Paralympics. “I know when to push […]
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Bethel woman to guide Benton skier in Paralympics in Sochi
Leading a vision-impaired skier down an alpine race course at top speed is not for everyone. But Diane Barras of Bethel has mastered it, and thanks to good teamwork with skier Lindsay Ball, the two are headed to Sochi, Russia later this month to compete in the Paralympics. “I know when to push her and […]