2012 summer paralympics
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- Brad Snyder sets a U.S. record and earns silver and fellow swimmer McKenzie Coan breaks a Paralympic mark and wins gold in Rio.
- U.S. wheelchair racer Tatyana McFadden was aiming to win seven gold medals at the Rio Paralympics, in every event from the 100 meters to the marathon.
- Former championship swimmers Aaron Peirsol, Staciana Winfield and Dave Denniston spent Saturday morning with about 200 youth swimmers and their parents and coaches at the Bel Air Athletic Club
- McFadden has been nominated for the honor six times.
- Maryland junior center Brionna Jones (Aberdeen) won the gold medal with USA Basketball at the World University Games in Gwangju, South Korea.
- Brad Snyder and Jessica Long of Baltimore won world championships to open competition at the IPC Swimming World Championships on Monday in Glasgow, Scotland.
- Ian Silverman was thrilled to compete in the USA Swimming Junior National Championships and the Paralympic Pan Pacific Games in California this month.
- Eric Vogt and Hannah Llorin chosen from 5,000 students across the county in editorial contest
- Baltimore's Becca Meyers and Ian Silverman set world records on the opening day of the 2014 U.S. Paralympics Swimming Spring National Championships/Spring CanAms on Thursday in Miami.
- On a bicycle built just for him, 28-year-old Rob Jones rode into the parking lot of Chapelgate Christian Academy in Marriottsville on Thursday to the cheers of the student body and family and friends who came to see him.
- Swimmers Michael Phelps and Jessica Long of Baltimore County are among the ESPY Award winners
- Coaching and being heavily involved with the United States Paralympic team has given Andrew Barranco the opportunity to travel to a dozen countries all over the world.
- Transcript of President Obama's remarks to U.S. Naval Academy graduates
- Clarksville native Tatyana McFadden won the women's wheelchair division of the Boston Marathon on Monday, adding to her resume as one of the elite Paralympic athletes in the world.
- Stan Ber's Bits & Pieces column for the week of Jan. 31
- C.F. Martin Co. presented blind Navy veteran Brad Snyder with a one-of-a-kind guitar Monday morning in Nazareth
- Champion swimmer stands out in the swim lane, on the red carpet
- Paralympian Jessica Long came to Pinewood Elementary School in Timonium on Tuesday, Oct. 9, to talk to youngsters about her experiences and challenges.
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- Paralympian and gold medal swimmer Ian Silverman, of Towson, got a surprise welcome back today, Sept. 12, from staff and students at McDonogh School in Owings Mills on his return from the games in London.
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- Tatyana McFadden takes bronze in Pralympics 100-meter race
- Tatyana McFadden wins third gold medal in Paralympics
- At the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Paralympics, Clarksville's Tatyana McFadden won five medals, but none of them were gold. She's adding to her medal collection at the 2012 London Paralympic Games, but this time she's collecting gold.
- Paralympic swimmer Jessica Long says she's primed for the 2012 games in London after leaving her Middle River home to train in Colorado the last two years.
- In a sense, Tatyana McFadden is turning the wheelchair racing on its ear. Never before has a wheelchair athlete raced as varied a schedule in the Paralympics as she will starting Sept. 3.
- Wheelchair athletes and sisters Tatyana and Hannah McFadden are preparing to compete in the 2012 London Paralympic Games. It's Hannah's first Paralympics, and Tatyana's third, and Tatyana is looking to make history by competing in five events, including sprints and a marathon.
- As the Olympic fever spread throughout the state and nation, the Baltimore Paralympic Sport Club Mid-Atlantic, located in Cockeysville, recently received a $15,000 grant donation from BP and its Baltimore marketer, Carroll Independent Fuels.
- Loyola University Maryland swim coach Brian Loeffler 'opened the door' for U.S. Paralympic Team swimmers Ian Silverman and Becca Meyers
- The 2012 Paralympics will be held in London in late August. This summer, Snyder is training under Loyola University head coach Brian Loeffler and also working for Red Owl Analytics, a startup software company in Baltimore run by two West Point graduates.
- Clarksville resident selected as one of 19 US women for Paralympic squad
- McFadden sisters to compete in 2012 Paralympic Games
- Daniel Romanchuk gives you a blank stare when you try and explain to him why he is an inspiration.
- Jessica Long swims some of the same events as the more celebrated Michael Phelps, including medleys and butterfly races, and counts him as both an inspiration and a friend.
