Penny Greely
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| Nationality | American | |||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship | United States | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 March 1971 Green Bay, Wisconsin | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  United States | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Sitting volleyball, Wheelchair curling | |||||||||||||||||
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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]
Athletic career[edit]
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]
Personal life[edit]
She currently works as a case worker for Brown County, WI. She has a husband and one son.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ "Penny Greely". Team USA. Archived from the original on March 24, 2015. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
- ^ a b c d e f Team USA profile
- ^ a b c d Carey, Timothy A. "Penny Greely – Paralympics Sochi 2014 – Curling" (PDF).
- ^ a b c "Greely travels world thanks to curling". Press Gazette Media. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
- ^ Pallares, Lindsey. "Green Bay's Penny Greely heads to Pyeongchang". Retrieved 2018-03-11.
- ^ Sports, John Doran, FOX 11. "Green Bay-area native competing in 3rd Paralympic games". WLUK. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
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External links[edit]
- Penny Greely at World Curling
- Penny Greely at Paralympic.org
- Penny Greely at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (archived)
- 1971 births
- Living people
- American sitting volleyball players
- Paralympic bronze medalists for the United States
- Paralympic volleyball players for the United States
- Paralympic wheelchair curlers for the United States
- Sportspeople from Green Bay, Wisconsin
- Volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair curlers at the 2014 Winter Paralympics
- Wheelchair curlers at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
- Women's sitting volleyball players
- American female curlers
- American wheelchair curlers
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in volleyball
- 21st-century American women