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...urging of a fellow swimmer with a disability, Kolbe headed west for the national meet in Seattle the following month, where she received a formal introduction to the U.S. Paralympic swim program...
...senior is an accomplished Paralympic swimmer but, as a dedicated student athlete at Harvard, is forced to limit most of her competition to the summer months. So when an invitation to compete at the Parapan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil lined up with Harvard’s 2007 summer vacation, Kolbe accepted, and in the process, captured four individual medals at the event including gold in the 50-meter backstroke...
...head coach Stephanie Wriede-Morawski ’92] as a prefrosh,” she said. “But as swimmer with a disability going into a DI school, I didn’t know how I would be welcomed onto the team because I am not going to be able to score points...
Though a Crimson swimmer and busy college student, Kolbe has maintained a relationship with home coach Ewald and continues to train for international competition, often traveling to an exotic location when the Harvard team “is just heading down to Columbia,” Hart noted...
Although he didn’t end up at the top of the podium, Rathgeber said he appreciated the opportunity to swim against top notch swimmers and represent the U.S. on an international stage while learning about Brazilian culture. This was only the second international competition for the Crimson swimmer; he also swam at the Junior Nationals in Australia while in high school...