That was three years ago. In the swimming events, she competed against women in a younger category. The U.S. Transplant Games are sponsored every other year by the National Kidney Foundation to showcase the ability of organ transplant survivors to lead active lives. Fifteen hundred athletes from across the United States compete in basketball, bicycling, golf, racquetball, swimming, tennis, and track and field. Then I started racewalking.
Few people realize that racewalking is a difficult technique that is very strenuous.
When she became interested in participating in the Transplant Games, Carolinas Medical Center offered to sponsor her. N.C. She enrolled in the one-year business course, she said, because her family couldn't afford four years of study. She also was a cheerleader. After graduation, she took a job in the cost accounting department at J.P. Stevens in neighboring Roanoke Rapids, and worked there long enough to learn that business wasn't for her. She wanted to teach.