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| Born | (1971-03-10) 10 March 1971 (age 53) Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  United States | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Sitting volleyball, Wheelchair curling | |||||||||||||||||
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Penny Ricker Greely (born March 10, 1971, in Green Bay, Wisconsin) is a three time Paralympian for Team USA. She competes as a wheelchair curler and competed as a sitting volleyball player. She played in the bronze medal-winning United States team in Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Paralympics and competed in Wheelchair curling at the 2014 Winter Paralympics and the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
Athletic career
Greely began her Paralympic career as a sitting volleyball player in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece, where she earned a bronze medal. She competed in the 2003 Parapan American Games to qualify for the 2004 Paralympic Team. She has since retired from sitting volleyball.
Greely began wheelchair curling in July 2010. She competed in her first international competition in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in February 2011. She has since competed in over a dozen countries internationally, including Finland, Slovakia, Switzerland, Scotland, South Korea, and Russia. She made her Paralympic debut in wheelchair curling at the 2014 Winter Paralympics held in Sochi, Russia. Greely has represented Team USA in five world championships in wheelchair curling. Greely and her teammates first won an international competition in wheelchair curling at the Finnish International Wheelchair Open in Lohja, Finland. She was selected for the 2018 Paralympic wheelchair curling team. Her wheelchair curling position is Lead. Her 2018 teammates include Kirk Black, Steve Emt, Justin Marshall, and Meghan Lino.
She practices curling at the Green Bay Curling Club. Her coach is Rusty Schieber.
Personal life
She currently works as a case worker for Brown County, WI. She has a husband and one son.
References
- "Penny Greely". Team USA. Archived from the original on March 24, 2015. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
- ^ Team USA profile
- ^ Carey, Timothy A. "Penny Greely – Paralympics Sochi 2014 – Curling" (PDF).
- ^ "Greely travels world thanks to curling". Press Gazette Media. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
- Pallares, Lindsey. "Green Bay's Penny Greely heads to Pyeongchang". Retrieved 2018-03-11.
- Sports, John Doran, FOX 11. "Green Bay-area native competing in 3rd Paralympic games". WLUK. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
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External links
- Penny Greely at World Curling
- Penny Greely at Paralympic.org
- Penny Greely at Team USA (archived)
- 1971 births
- Living people
- American sitting volleyball players
- Paralympic bronze medalists for the United States
- Paralympic volleyball players for the United States
- Paralympic wheelchair curlers for the United States
- Sportspeople from Green Bay, Wisconsin
- Volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair curlers at the 2014 Winter Paralympics
- Wheelchair curlers at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
- Women's sitting volleyball players
- American female curlers
- American wheelchair curlers
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in volleyball
- 21st-century American sportswomen