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Nationality | American | |||||||||||||||||
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Born | Green Bay, Wisconsin | 10 March 1971|||||||||||||||||
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Penny Ricker Greely (born March 10, 1971, in Green Bay, Wisconsin) is a three time Paralympian for Team USA. [1] She competes as a wheelchair curler and competed as a sitting volleyball player. She played in the bronze medal-winning United States team in Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Paralympics and competed in Wheelchair curling at the 2014 Winter Paralympics and the 2018 Winter Paralympics. [2]
Greely began her Paralympic career as a sitting volleyball player in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece, where she earned a bronze medal. She competed in the 2003 Parapan American Games to qualify for the 2004 Paralympic Team. [3] She has since retired from sitting volleyball. [3]
Greely began wheelchair curling in July 2010. [3] She competed in her first international competition in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in February 2011. [3] She has since competed in over a dozen countries internationally, including Finland, Slovakia, Switzerland, Scotland, South Korea, and Russia. [4] [5] She made her Paralympic debut in wheelchair curling at the 2014 Winter Paralympics held in Sochi, Russia. [4] Greely has represented Team USA in five world championships in wheelchair curling. [2] Greely and her teammates first won an international competition in wheelchair curling at the Finnish International Wheelchair Open in Lohja, Finland. [4] She was selected for the 2018 Paralympic wheelchair curling team. [2] Her wheelchair curling position is Lead. Her 2018 teammates include Kirk Black, Steve Emt, Justin Marshall, and Meghan Lino. [2]
She practices curling at the Green Bay Curling Club. [6] Her coach is Rusty Schieber. [2]
She currently works as a case worker for Brown County, WI. She has a husband and one son. [2]
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