Janna Lynette Mizens

née A birth name is the name of a person given upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth re ...

Ellsworth (born November 18, 1974) is an American

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wheelchair basketball player. She has won a gold medal at the

2004 Summer Paralympics ) , nations = 136 , athletes = 3,806 , events = 519 in 19 sports , opening = 17 September , closing = 28 September , opened_by = President Costis Stephanopoulos , cauldron = Georgios Toptsis , stadium = Olympic ...

Career

Crawford attended the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

where she competed on their women's wheelchair basketball team and was named to the second team All-Tournament. She wrote her masters thesis on "Constraints of elite athletes with disabilities in Kenya," which she later published with Monika Stodolska in the ''Journal of Leisure Research.'' She competed with Team USA at the

2000 Summer Paralympics The 2000 Summer Paralympic Games or the XI Summer Paralympics were held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, between 18 and 29 October. The Sydney Paralympics was last time that the Summer Paralympics which were organized by two different ...

. At the

, she recorded nine points and 10 rebounds to help Team USA win gold over Australia.

References

Living people Illinois Fighting Illini women's basketball players American women's wheelchair basketball players Paralympic wheelchair basketball players of the United States Paralympic gold medalists for the United States Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics People from Auburn, Washington Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball Wheelchair basketball players at the 2004 Summer Paralympics 1974 births 20th-century American women 21st-century American women {{US-Paralympic-medalist-stub