Background
Stephanie Jallen was born on 13 February 1996 in Kingston, Pennsylvania. Jallen was born with CHILD syndrome, Congenital Hemidysplasia with Ichthyosis and Limb Defects Syndrome.
Stephanie Jallen was born on 13 February 1996 in Kingston, Pennsylvania. Jallen was born with CHILD syndrome, Congenital Hemidysplasia with Ichthyosis and Limb Defects Syndrome.
This meant that Jallen"s left leg had to be amputated, her left side is under-developed, and she suffers from rashes. Her nickname, Hopper, comes from the fact that when her prosthetic limbs weren"t being worn, she had to hop. Jallen has always been active and learned to play soccer with her friends.
She does have a crutch but she uses it mainly for balance and is happy to stand or move around on her legal
In an interview she said that she would not want to have her limbs back to normal as that would just make her "boring". Jallen was introduced to skiing at a 2006 winter ski clinic in Pennsylvania.
Her international debut was in 2011. She has encouraged Iraq war amputees and when she was eleven in 2007 she spoke at Harrisburg to the Pennsylvania senate and told them not to give up.
In 2012, she "lacerated" her face in Kimberley, British Columbia in a Super-G event.
The resulting wound needed twelve facial stitches. She also fractured her tibia plateau and partly tore a knee ligament. Paralympics
At her début Paralympics, the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Jallen competed for Team United States of America in three events: the Super-G, the slalom, and the super combined (Jallen is competing in standing in all events).
She came third in the Super-G, finishing 5.94 seconds behind Marie Bochet.
Also finishing behind Solène Jambaqué, both of France. However, Jallen did not finish the slalom and fell in the giant slalom.
She qualified for the 2014 Winter Paralympics competing for Team United States of America and won a bronze in the standing Super-G and Super combined. In that year, she was the United States slalom champion after coming first in the event. Jallen came third in the super combined with a time of 1:25.15 seconds, 4.74 seconds behind Bochet, who won.
She was the second-youngest member of the national team
