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Locals competing in Paralympic Games

Updated: Thursday, 30 Aug 2012, 10:35 AM EDT
Published : Thursday, 30 Aug 2012, 10:35 AM EDT

LONDON, UK (WISH) - Nine Indiana athletes are competing in this year’s Paralympic Games.

Emma Preuschl from Indianapolis is competing in her second Paralympics. She took home a silver medal in rowing four years ago in China.

Preuschl has a disorder called Erbs Palsy, a nerve injury that affects her ability to grasp and extend her left arm.

Catherine Bouwkamp is hoping to leave with a gold medal in fencing. She is a junior at Fishers High School and is considered one of the top female wheelchair fencers in the world.

Westfield native Kendra Lancaster is battling back from a car crash last year to make the U.S. sitting volleyball team.

Lancaster, a Purdue University student, was nearly killed in a head-on crash and missed the entire season last year. She was born without a left arm, and went on to win silver and bronze medals at the Beijing and Athens Paralymic Games.
 

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