5'5"
24
Dacula, GA
Loyola University
classification: S11, SB11, SM11
When Hermes was eight years old, she had four emergency eye surgeries due to retina detachments, the result of Wagner Syndrome...She is now completely blind in the right eye and describes the vision in her left eye as, “seeing through a straw with wax paper over it"...Her vision loss is progressive...The teenager competed for the U.S. at the Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games and holds 10 short course American records in the S12 classification...Daughter of Matt and Carmen Hermes...Has one brother, Logan, and one sister, Madeline...Interests include cross-training and tandem bike riding with family and friends...Also enjoys traveling, reading, and writing...Hermes and her father began Shoes for the Souls as a small service project in 2009...The first year she collected and donated 365 pairs of new and used shoes to the Atlanta Mission, which serves homeless men, women and children...That "small service project" has now collected and donated over 15,000 pairs of shoes to The Atlanta Mission
NANTERRE, France – Team USA Para Swimming hit two new historic American milestones on Friday.On night two of swimming events at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, Gia Pergolini captured the U.S’s first gold medal of the Games, beating the field in the wo...
NANTERRE, France – Ellie Marks, Christie Raleigh-Crossley and Grace Nuhfer all swam to silver medals on opening night of Para swimming at the La Defense Arena.Marks was the first of the medal-winning trio to nab silver, doing so in the women’s 50-meter...
Jessica Long’s record speaks for itself: 6 Paralympic Games, 16 Paralympic Gold Medals. 29 Paralympic Medals.
NANTERRE, France – It was an absolutely blazing Paralympic debut in her maiden swim.Having aspired to compete at three Olympic Games, Christie Raleigh-Crossley broke the 50-meter freestyle S9 world record, clocking 27.28 seconds, 0.04 faster than the p...
After winning four medals at last year’s worlds, Jaffe decided to take a year off from his studies to focus on Paris.
