LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida, April 12. THIS morning, 15-year-old Paralympian Jessica Long was named the 77th James E. Sullivan Memorial Award Winner by the Amateur Athletic Union.<\/p>\n
According to the AAU press release, Long has 18 world record-breaking performances and holds the record in 12 events for paralympic swimming. Long, whose legs were amputated below the knee, learned to swim in her grandparents' pool and has won at least three medals in every Paralympic Games since 2004. In 2006, Long won nine gold medals and set five world records at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming World Championships in Durban, South Africa. She was named the U.S. Olympic Committee's 2006 Paralympian of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida, April 12. THIS morning, 15-year-old Paralympian Jessica Long was named the 77th James E. Sullivan Memorial Award Winner by the Amateur Athletic Union. According to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","category-zzzzzzzzz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n