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Anjali Forber-Pratt is someone who knows first-hand how much disabilities can make a difference in peoples’ lives. At four months old, Forber-Pratt contractedTransverse Myelitis leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. But what some people might view as a tragedy, Anjali has come to view as a positive life altering event.
Anjali enjoys traveling for speaking engagements around the country and volunteering with local organizations for kids with disabilities. She is in the midst of launching Color, Learn and Play, an activity book, aimed at educating young aspiring Paralympians on the variety of sports they can play and to teach young children that disabled people can play sports too!
“I believe all things are possible with just a little hard work, no matter what your disability may be. This book will be a key to unlock all the possibilities for children who love sports,” Anjali says.
About Anjali Forber-Pratt
Anjali Forber-Pratt was introduced to the world of disabled sports at the young age of 5. She quickly excelled and by the age of 9 she was competing at the national level in track and field. She also excelled in skiing. In 1999, she won a gold medal for the skiing Giant Slalom in the junior division at Chevy Truck Disabled World Cup in Breckenridge, Colorado. Then she captured 3rd place in the women’s open division in the Super-G at the Columbia Crest Cup. Anjali found her way back to the track in 2006.
Currently she is ranked among the top three fastest T53 women in the world for the 100 meter, 200 meter and 400 meter events. She was named to the United States Paralympic Track and Field Team and selected to represent the United States at the ParaPan American Games in Rio de Janeiro—where she came home with two gold medals in the 100m and 200m and a bronze in the 400m.
Anjali’s current focus is to prepare for London 2012. She juggles a six-day-a-week training regiment along with the full-time study toward her doctorate degree in Human Resource Education. Anjali is a graduate teaching assistant for the University Of Illinois College Of Education.
Anjali enjoys traveling for speaking engagements around the country and volunteering with local organizations for kids with disabilities. She is in the midst of launching a Color, Learn and Play book aimed at educating young aspiring Paralympians on the variety of sports they can play and to teach young children that disabled people can play sports too!
About the United States Olympic Committee (USOC)
The United States Olympic Committee, one of America's premier sports organizations, is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colo.
In 1978, the passage of The Amateur Sports Act (now The Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act - revised in 1998) as federal law appointed the U.S. Olympic Committee as the coordinating body for all Olympic-related athletic activity in the United States. The vision of the USOC is to enable America's athletes to realize their Olympic and Paralympic dreams.
The USOC is recognized by the International Olympic Committee as the sole entity in the United States whose mission involves training, entering and underwriting the full expenses for the U.S. teams in the Olympic, Paralympic, Pan American and Parapan American Games. In addition to being the steward of the U.S. Olympic Movement, the USOC is the moving force for support of sports in the United States that are on the program of the Olympic, Paralympic, Pan American and Parapan American Games.
The U.S. Olympic Committee also oversees the process by which U.S. cities seek to be selected as a Candidate City to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games, winter or summer, or the Pan American Games. In addition, the USOC approves the U.S. trial sites for the Olympic, Paralympic and Pan American Games team selections.
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