Jennifer French

Background

Jennifer was born in 1971 in Royalton, Ohio.

Career

In 1998 she was injured in a snowboarding accident which left her paraplegic. She started participating in the Olympics in 2009 at the United States Disabled Sailing Championship which earned her first place. She also got into the 5th place at Rolex Miami Optical Character Recognition the same year, but improved it, and got into 1st next year.

Her awards went down from gold to bronze in two years.

She got paralyzed after she damaged her spinal cord while snowboarding in 1998.

Achievements

• In 2011 she won a silver medal at IFDS Worlds and a year later went down to bronze at another annual Rolex Miami ISAF Sailing World Cup. On the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, she won another silver medal for sailing.

Membership

Currently she is attending Bridgewater State University and is a member of Saint St. Petersburg Yacht Club where she also lives.