Lea ann parsley biography of donald

  • Nearly a decade after graduating from UVA's School of Nursing, Lea Ann Parsley-Davenport won a silver medal in skeleton at the Winter Olympic Games.
  • Lea Ann Parsley, a year-old on the US skeleton team, a sport that is debuting at Salt Lake City, shares a bi-weekly diary on her preparations for the.
  • I was blessed to be the first female athlete to win a World Cup medal for the USA in the sport of skeleton when I took the silver medal in the World.

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    Lea Ann Parsley, a year-old on the U.S. skeleton team, a sport that is debuting at Salt Lake City, shares a bi-weekly diary on her preparations for the Olympics.

    During my first entry, I took a little bit of time to introduce myself, as well as talk a little bit about the sport of skeleton. With the big day quickly approaching, I thought it would be good to introduce you to some of my equipment and the routine I go through in preparing it all the night before a race.

    LEA ANN PARSLEY
    Parsley
    Birthdate: June 12,
    Hometown: Granville, Ohio
    Sport: Skeleton
    Accomplishments: Ranked No. 5 in skeleton in the world, she won bronze in Igls, Austria, in November. She took silver at the U.S. National Championship in Park City, Utah.

    Also a summer idrott athlete, she was a member of the Slippery Rock Handball Club that won the U.S. National Championships.

    Personal: A firefighter for 17 years, she was selected Ohio Firefighter of the Year in in part for her role

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    The Municipal

    Just over a month ago, the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, came to a close. In the United States, these games will be remembered for how Norway, a small European country, dominated, while American athletes and teams struggled. Yet, not that long ago in , Americans were on top of the world when it came to winter sports like bobsledding and skeleton, and some of this success can be attributed to, of all things, firefighting.

    Lea Ann Parsley with her silver medal from the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics

    That year, the U.S. Olympic grupp won three medals between men’s and women’s skeleton racing, with Lea Ann Parsley winning silver. The year-old had only been a skeleton racer for about four years when she qualified for the Olympics. If it weren’t for her experience as a firefighter, who knows if she would have been prepared physically for the rigorous training that comes with being an Olympic athlete. She would go to the firehouse on her days off, just

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    UVA’s Lone Winter Olympic Medalist Became a Nurse and Firefighting Hero

    Having watched a former basketball teammate compete in handball at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Parsley-Davenport decided to give the sport a try. She was a quick study, and was in contention for a spot on the squad until suffering a thumb injury.

    However, she was invited to be a member of the team’s operations staff and traveled with the team to the Pan-American Games. One of Parsley-Davenport’s duties was trying to secure sponsors for the team, which, at the time, was underfunded in comparison to the men’s squad, according to Parsley-Davenport. It was while searching online for possible sponsors that she came across a web page that detailed various female winter sports, one of which was bobsled.

    “I was like, ‘Wait a minute?’ I didn’t even know women were in bobsled,” Parsley-Davenport said. “They weren’t Olympic, but they were trying to be, and I thought, ‘Wow, that looks really fun. I’d really like to g