by Katharine Lyon | Jun 28, 2016
Among a handful of former BYU students vying for a spot on Team USA for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, Taylor Sander, 24, recently won his ticket to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the U.S. Men’s Volleyball Team. Sander, who joined the U.S. Men’s Volleyball...
by Keith L. Brown | Jul 16, 2012
After 15-year-old Valerie Adams of New Zealand watched the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, she told her mother, Lilika, that she would become an Olympic competitor one day. A few months later, when her mother passed away, she resolved to keep that promise to her mother....
by Keith L. Brown | Jul 13, 2012
Paul Schulte, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is a wheelchair basketball Olympian. Originally Paul had said no to wheelchair basketball. After suffering a spinal cord injury in a car accident at the age of 10, the young sports enthusiast...
by Keith L. Brown | Jul 12, 2012
Arielle Martin, or Arielle Verhaaren, as she is also known was born in 1986. She is from Cedar Hills, Utah and is a United States BMX cyclist. She is also a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly referred to as the Mormon Church.) During...