by Luke Mullin | Jul 2, 2019 | Blog
Miles Krajewski may be a small kid, but that doesn’t stop him from having big dreams. A short stature athlete, Krajewski played a multitude of sports for the Dwarf Athletic Association of America. Basketball, tennis, baseball and golf were all fun, but it wasn’t until...
by Luke Mullin | Jun 25, 2019 | Blog
For some athletes, sports are all about the game itself, the rising thrills of success and the lows of defeat. For others, such as Densie Rice, the release of playing a sport, the lessons learned and the relationships formed through sports are what matters. Rice has a...
by Luke Mullin | Jun 18, 2019 | Blog
When Alise Pape went to her first powerlifting competition in January, she wasn’t expecting much, let alone a first-place finish in her weight class. “That was so shocking and so unexpected,” she said. A Chicago native, Pape began lifting casually in college as a form...
by Luke Mullin | Jun 17, 2019 | Blog
From her days growing up in Ravenna, sports and McKenna Schmidt have always gone hand-in-hand. Schmidt kept herself busy with various athletic activities, eventually competing in basketball, volleyball, golf, track and softball at Ravenna High School. Basketball has...
by Luke Mullin | Jun 11, 2019 | Blog
When Nic Ridder turned on the Winter Olympics in 2002 and saw curling, he wasn’t quite sure what to make of a sport which consists entirely of stones being slowly slid across an icy surface. “It was something I wasn’t familiar with, it was really foreign to me,”...
by Luke Mullin | Jun 5, 2019 | Blog
When a friend approached Brook McCluskey trying to get her into powerlifting, she wasn’t too thrilled with the prospects of lifting heavy weights in front of other people. In her first competitive action, a Nebraska state tournament ran by USA Powerlifting (USAPL),...
