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Aug 23, 2024 | sports.yahoo.com | Greg Hyatt |Emilie Ikeda

Last year was life-changing for U.S. Paralympic swimmer Ali Truwit. She graduated from Yale University, wrapping up a successful collegiate swimming career, and headed to Turks and Caicos in May for a vacation with close friend Sophie Pilkinton. But what was meant to be a celebratory trip changed in the blink of an eye. “A shark came up and started attacking us and aggressively bumping us and ramming us from underneath,” Truwit recalled in an interview.

Aug 23, 2024 | nbcnews.com | Greg Hyatt |Emilie Ikeda

Aug. 23, 2024, 1:35 PM UTCLast year was life-changing for U.S. Paralympic swimmer Ali Truwit. She graduated from Yale University, wrapping up a successful collegiate swimming career, and headed to Turks and Caicos in May for a vacation with close friend Sophie Pilkinton. But what was meant to be a celebratory trip changed in the blink of an eye. “A shark came up and started attacking us and aggressively bumping us and ramming us from underneath,” Truwit recalled in an interview.

Aug 21, 2024 | sports.yahoo.com | Greg Hyatt

In 2014 at 22 years old, Sarah Adam was successfully building the life she wanted. She graduated from Augustana College in her native Illinois and embarked on a fulfilling career in occupational therapy, helping kids and adults with physical disabilities participate in adaptive sports. But that year also represented a life-changing moment for Adam. While she was halfway through her graduate program at Washington University in St. Louis, she started to realize her own physical disabilities.

Aug 21, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Greg Hyatt

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Aug 14, 2024 | sports.yahoo.com | Greg Hyatt

Paralympic sprinter Nick Mayhugh's life changed at 14 years old. He had been having difficulty using the left side of his body and one day experienced a grand mal seizure, leading to a loss of consciousness and violent contractions. An MRI revealed he had cerebral palsy, the result of a "dead spot" on the left side of his brain, which occurred when he suffered a stroke in utero and affected mobility on his left side.