New York City Marathon Has Olympic And Paralympic Implications For All Of Team USA Athletes
This will serve as the qualifying event for the Paralympics, while it will be the last marathon before Olympic trials.
Athlete Bio#
Height
5'5"
Age
22
Hometown
Mead, WA
Education
University of Illinois
classification: T54
Personal
- Daughter of Don and Lori Dederick and has five siblings - Caleb, Courtney, Heather, Jonathan and Stephen
- Born with spina bifida
- Abandoned at the steps of a hospital in Suzhou, China and adopted from an orphanage by a volunteer from the United States, Lori.
- Known as “Princess” in her orphanage
- Learned about wheelchair track in 2015 through Shriners Children’s Hospital, which connected her with ParaSport Spokane
- Hobbies include photography, traveling, watching movies, listening to music and playing with animals
- Also plays wheelchair basketball
Paralympic Experience
- 2-time Paralympian;
- Paralympic Games Paris 2024, 4th (400m T54 - Women), 6th (100m T54 - Women), 7th (800m T54 - Women)
- Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020, 4th (100m T54 - Women), 10th (400m T54 - Women)
World Championships Experience
- Most recent: 2023 – 6th (100m T54 - Women), 7th (800m T54 - Women), 8th (400m T54 - Women)
- Years of participation: 100m T54 - Women 2019, 2023; 400m T54 - Women 2023; 800m T54 - Women 2023
- Top finish: 6th – 2019 (100m T54 - Women), 2023 (100m T54 - Women)
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