The first Olympic wheelchair athlete
Globe and Mail - Wellington — Neroli Fairhall, a gold medalist in archery at the 1982 Commonwealth Games and the first wheelchair-using athlete to compete at an Olympics, died Sunday. She was 61. Ms. Fairhall, who was paralyzed from the waist down in a motorcycle

Age doesn t limit adventurous athlete
Chronicle - PROSPECT, Ore. Imagine a young girl running up and down the hills of Western Washington in the early 20th century. Mount St. Helens blocks out a giant triangle of the sky, distant fields are filled with golden crops. The small, nearby hills are

Wagner, Gray named Horseheads High’s top senior athletes
Star-Gazette - Horseheads High School recently handed out athletic awards for the 2005-2006 school year. Lynsey Wagner was named Outstanding Senior Female Athlete and Michael Gray was named Outstanding Senior Male Athlete

Purdue hires Ray as assistant coach (TOPS)
WOI-TV - WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. Purdue coach Matt Painter has hired former Grand View College star Rick Ray as his assistant. Ray spent the last two seasons at Northern Illinois as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. He was an assistant for seven