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Lindsey Carmichael is a 23 year-old Paralympic archer and bronze medalist from the University of Texas at Austin, where she is double-majoring in English and History. She picked up archery at the age of 13 and after competing in the top ranks of the able-bodied divisions for years, she made her way into disabled archery and won a spot on the 2004 US Paralympic Archery Team. While in Athens she set a World Record in the Qualifying Round, tying with a Chinese archer who went on to take gold. Lindsey finished sixth overall and set her sights on Beijing. After four years of injuries and struggles with her mental game, she made the 2008 US Team.

After a slow start in the Beijing Paralympic Qualifying Round, she continued to shoot well, keeping the drama high all the way through a one-arrow shoot-off to her final match. When she won her bronze medal, Lindsey became the first American female archer--able-bodied OR disabled--to win a medal since the US Woman's Team in Seoul in 1988. Beyond that, she is the first to win an individual medal since the 1976 Games in Montreal. Now Lindsey can be found shooting recreationally with the University of Texas Archery Club, finishing her double-major degree, and writing several novels at once. For fun, she likes reading, cooking, camping, swimming, and Reiki. Her next goal? She wants to be a published author with a book on the NY Times Bestselling List by 2020. Her motto is a quotation from UCLA coach John Wooden: "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."


We won't be on TV, sadly, but you can watch live streaming video
of the Beijing Paralympics at http://www.paralympicsport.tv

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"The most important thing in the Games is not to win but to take part.
Similarly, the most important thing in life is not to triumph but to struggle.
The essential thing is not to conquer but to have fought well."

Pierre Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic movement

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