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)
