Annie Flood Explained
Annie Flood |
Birth Date: | 16 May 2003 |
Birth Place: | Salem, Oregon, U.S. |
Height: | 5 ft 7 in |
Medaltemplates-Title: | Medal record |
Annie Flood (born May 16, 2003) is an American Paralympic volleyballist. At the age of 18, Flood won a gold medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
Early life
Flood was born on May 16, 2003, in Salem, Oregon[1] to parents Jeff and Linda.[2] Flood was born with fibular hemimelia and learned to walk on a prosthetic leg.[3] When she was 10 years old, Flood received her first grant for an athletic leg which she used to play soccer and run.[4]
Career
Flood was introduced to sitting volleyball through a summer camp in Ohio in 2016. Shortly thereafter, she started training in the National Team A2 program and about a year later started training with the US national team.[2] During her senior year at South Salem High School,[5] Flood was a member of the gold medal-winning sitting volleyball team at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[6] Following the Games, she returned to North America to attend Linfield University for a degree in intensive care nursing.[7]
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: FLOOD Annie . Tokyo 2020 Paralympics . . September 10, 2021 . September 10, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210910194624/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/sitting-volleyball/athlete-profile-n1708922-flood-annie.htm . dead .
- Web site: Annie Flood . https://web.archive.org/web/20210910194625/https://www.teamusa.org/usa-volleyball/athletes/2/annie-flood?pg=2#profile . dead . September 10, 2021 . Team USA . September 10, 2021.
- News: Poehler . Bill . Wounded Warrior camp an experience for Annie Flood . September 10, 2021 . Statesmen Journal . July 9, 2014.
- News: ANNIE FLOOD . September 10, 2021 . Challenged Athletes.
- Web site: McCord . AJ . South Salem senior shoots for ‘second chance’ at Paralympics . . September 10, 2021 . October 30, 2020.
- Web site: Azzi . Alex . US women win second straight gold in sitting volleyball . NBC Sports . September 10, 2021 . September 5, 2021.
- Web site: Krupke . Nick . South Salem senior, Sitting volleyball player lives, learns in Oklahoma in time of COVID-19 . . September 10, 2021 . September 25, 2020.