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Jacqui Kapinowski, Two-Time Paralympian, Adaptive Sports Hall of Fame Inductee, Turning Challenges into Opportunities
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If you're feeling stuck in life and you cannot find the energy to blast through the obstacles in your way, this is the episode for you. Anyone who has ever had the pleasure of meeting Jacqui Kapinowski knows that there is only one word to describe her, unstoppable. Jacqui has survived two bouts of bacterial meningitis, a stroke, thyroid cancer, throat cancer, and currently lives with Stiff Person Syndrome, SPS, a rare neurological disease effecting one in one million people. Jacqui has not only overcome and continued to contend with these challenges, she has thrived.
Jacqui is a two-time American Paralympian having competed in curling in the 2010 Winter Paralympics and Rowing in the 2016 Summer Paralympics. If that weren't enough Jacqui has competed in a combined nine world championships in curling, triathlon, wheelchair racing, and rowing. She has also competed in 90 marathons, 19 as a runner and 71 as a wheel chair race or hand-cyclist. It may be possible that she is the only woman to have competed in the Boston and New York City Marathons in the Running and Wheelchair categories. Understandably, she was a 2022 inductee into the Adaptive Sports Hall of Fame.
Somehow after all her athletic endeavors, Jacqui still found the time and energy to create Shifting Gears United, an organization which provides adaptive sports programs, equipment, coaching, training, and educational clinics in order to change the lives of individuals with various disabilities.
Shifting Gears United
https://shiftinggearsunited.org/
Freedom Coast Ride - November 11, 2023 Registration
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Chapters
1. Jacqui Kapinowski, Two-Time Paralympian, Adaptive Sports Hall of Fame Inductee, Turning Challenges into Opportunities (00:00:00)
2. The Power of Intuitive Choices (00:00:05)
3. Progressive Disease, Running, and Wheelchair Racing (00:15:41)
4. Overcoming Challenges and Finding Motivation (00:27:47)
5. Shifting Gears and Freedom Coast Ride (00:40:10)
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