paralympic games

• Howard County

Bits & Pieces: Tennis, swimming groups looking for new facility

• Howard County

Last country breakfast of season at firehouse [Clarksville]

The 5th District Volunteer Fire Department appreciated the great turnout during a break in February's foul weather. Lots of residents came out for the department's country breakfast. You have one more opportunity to share a country breakfast with family, friends and neighbors on March 30 from 8 a.m. until noon.

• Olympics

Paralympic star Tatyana McFadden enjoyed competition, family in Sochi

Paralympic star Tatyana McFadden reflects on her experiences in Sochi, where she won a silver medal in her first winter games.

• Tatyana McFadden

Tatyana McFadden places seventh in women's 5-kilometer race at Paralympics

Tatyana McFadden, a Clarksville native, concluded her time in the Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia, with a seventh-place finish in the women's cross country skiing 5-kilometer sit race.

• Winter Paralympics

Tatyana McFadden wins silver in women's 1-kilometer sit sprint

Tatyana McFadden, a Clarksville native, won her first medal today in the Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia, earning a silver in the women¿s 1-kilometer sit sprint.

• Howard County

HCC men's basketball season ends game short of nationals

Stan Ber's Bits and Pieces Column for the week of March 13

• Laurel Leader

Keep Olympic spirit alive, volunteer with Special Olympics [Russett]

Anne Arundel Special Olympics, a nonprofit sports program, seeks volunteers ages 16 and over. Volunteer orientation will be held March 19. Russett resident Bill Berned will cycle solo in July in the New England Tour de Cure to raise funds for the American Diabetes Association.

• Olympics

Paralympic superstar Tatyana McFadden takes on a new challenge at winter games in Sochi

Clarksville native Tatyana McFadden has already dominated in the summer Paralympics. In Sochi, she'll take her first shot at gold in the winter games.

• Howard County

McFadden headlines '14 Women's Hall of Fame class

On Feb. 1, the Howard County Women's Athletics Hall of Fame will induct five new members. Since being established in 1997, the Hall of Fame has honored 68 men and women who have made extraordinary contributions to Howard County women's athletics. This year's inductees are Mike Bossom (Andover, 1988), Shannon Saltzman Webster (Centennial, 1993), Allison Valentino (Atholton, 1993), Tatyana McFadden (Atholton, 2008) and Merri-Ellen James (Glenelg, 1983). The induction ceremony will be held Saturday, Feb. 1, at 6 p.m. at Mt. Hebron High School. An alumnae basketball game will be played prior to the ceremony at 5 p.m. and a high school girls varsity game between Centennial and Mt. Hebron follows at 7.

• Olympics

Blind Navy veteran sees himself as triathlete

Within a year after an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan cost him his sight in September 2011, Navy Lt. Brad Snyder had won seven gold medals at the Warrior Games in Colorado Springs as well as one silver and two gold medals at the Paralympics in London.

• Carroll County Times

McDaniel grad to address Chamber of Commerce on overcoming challenges

McDaniel College graduate Greg Wagner will share his story on overcoming a ruptured brain aneurysm Dec. 13 at a Carroll County Chamber of Commerce luncheon.

• Health

Trotting with a team

Athletes Serving Athletes and other Baltimore-based groups help those with physical challenges to bike, run and swim in mainstream events.

• Sports

Bits & Pieces: Howard County dominating high school golf scene

Stan Ber's Bits & Pieces column for the week of Nov. 7

• Howard County

Bits & Pieces: McFadden makes history at World Championships in France

The legend of Paralympic star Tatyana McFadden seems to keep growing by the day. Already a proven world-class wheelchair athlete, Tatyana recently traveled to France for the IPC Athletics World Championships and once again etched her name into the record books.

• Olympics

Martin Guitar makes custom guitar for blind veteran

C.F. Martin Co. presented blind Navy veteran Brad Snyder with a one-of-a-kind guitar Monday morning in Nazareth

• Adoption

Families worry about possible Russian adoption ban

To Heather and Aaron Whaley, they're already parents to a 4-year-old girl living in a Russian orphanage off the Sea of Japan.

• Features

Paralympian Jessica Long goes gold-metal glam

Champion swimmer stands out in the swim lane, on the red carpet

• Baltimore City

Disabled athletes shine in Baltimore Running Festival

Kennedy Krieger Institute, which treats individuals with developmental disorders of the brain, spinal cord, and musculoskeletal system, put together the festival's largest charity team with 208 race participants, who raised nearly $90,000 to support future running participants with disabilities.

• Baltimore County

Jessica Long inspires youngsters at Pinewood Elementary

Paralympian Jessica Long came to Pinewood Elementary School in Timonium on Tuesday, Oct. 9, to talk to youngsters about her experiences and challenges.

• Howard County

McFadden sisters make triumphant return home

Tatyana McFadden wins four medals at 2012 Paralympics

• Baltimore County

McDonogh makes splash on paralympian's return to school

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.

• Festivus

McFadden sisters did Howard County proud at 2012 Paralympics

Stan Ber's Bits & Pieces

• Howard County

McFadden finishes ninth in marathon

McFadden finishes ninth in marathon

• China

Tatyana McFadden takes bronze in Paralympics 100-meter race

Tatyana McFadden takes bronze in Pralympics 100-meter race

• Paralympic Games

Paralympians deserve equal treatment

• Paralympic Games

McFadden sisters both make 100 final in the Paralympics (UPDATED)

Tatyana McFadden wins third gold medal in Paralympics

• Paralympic Games

McFadden wins second gold medal in 2012 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.

• Olympics

Paralympic champion Jessica Long left home to find way to London

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.

• Olympics

Tatyana McFadden looking to go far and fast at Paralympics

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.

• Paralympic Games

A long road to the Paralympics for Clarksville's McFadden sisters

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.

• Olympics

London gears up for Olympics as only the British can

British seem wary of hosting Olympic Games as security and traffic concerns rise

• International Trade

Local Paralympic swimmers headed to London

Loyola University Maryland swim coach Brian Loeffler 'opened the door' for U.S. Paralympic Team swimmers Ian Silverman and Becca Meyers

• Paralympic Games

Navy veteran speeds ahead to qualify for Paralympics

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.

• Sports

Md.'s Jessica Long wins ESPY award

• Travel

Paralympics: Hannah McFadden set for first trip to games

Clarksville resident selected as one of 19 US women for Paralympic squad

• Marathon

Paralympics: Tatyana McFadden preparing for shot at history

Wheelchair athlete Tatyana McFadden going for gold

• Paralympic Games

Paralympics: McFadden sisters to compete in 2012 Paralympic Games

McFadden sisters to compete in 2012 Paralympic Games

• Chicago Transit Authority

Celebrating Heroes Triathlon puts focus on athletes with physical disabilities

• Human Interest

Local boy with spina bifida looks to 2016 Paralympics

Daniel Romanchuk gives you a blank stare when you try and explain to him why he is an inspiration.

• College Sports

Bits & Pieces: Atholton alum Tatyana McFadden continues to win accolades

Stan Ber's Bits & Pieces column

• Health

Parathletics: Want to tri?

Paratriathlon clinic

• Sports

Taneytown man wins gold for Special Olympics U.S. team

26-year-old Syd Lea from Taneytown, Carroll County, has traversed the world several times on the way to becoming the premier cyclist among American Special Olympians. Lea was a top winner for Team USA in the recent Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens, Greece, earning three of the team's 10 gold medals in the international competition.