Charlie Swearingen

Paralympian 2016

Athlete Bio#

Height

6'3"

Hometown

Gulfport, MS

Education

Gulfport High School Millsaps College

Personal

Full name is Charles Freeman Swearingen... Father Gene Swearingen died in 2013, Mother is Jan Swearingen... Has a sister named Susan Scott... Wife is Marge Fraser Swearingen... Admires his parents for "ommitting the words disability and failure while raising me and highlighting the word love."

Career Highlights

2019 - Parapan American Games (Silver)
2016 - ParaVolley Intercontinental Cup (6th Place)
2015 - Parapan American Games (Silver)
2012: Intercontinental Cup in Cairo, Egypt.
2011: Parapan American Games (Silver); Continental Cup; Sarajevo Open
2010: Parapan American Championship (Silver Medal); WOVD World Cup (Fifth Place)
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DID YOU KNOW?
Charlie was born without ankle bones or the small, non-weight bearing fibula bone in his lower legs
He is a certified flight paramedic, and has worked a variety of disasters, including the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Charlie played baseball through college. He also played beach volleyball on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Charlie found out about sitting volleyball in 2009 while attending the Endeavor Games in Edmond, Okla.
Charlie is working on his PhD in physiology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center