A Year After A Shark Took Her Leg, Swimmer Ali Truwit Is Headed To The Paralympics
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING A year ago, Ali Truwit never would’ve imagined she’d be competing in the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games. On May 24, 2023 — two days after the Connecticut native graduated from Yale University, where she’d had a successful swimming career — she experienced a tragedy that she described to Kelly Clarkson in February as “everyone’s worst nightmare.” She was snorkeling off the coast of Turks and Caicos with her friend and former Yale teammate, Sophie Pilkinton, when a “huge shark came out of nowhere and started fighting us,” she told Clarkson. NBC via Getty Images Truwit said she and Pilkinton “fought back,” but before she knew it, the shark “bit off my foot and part of my leg.” “My immediate thought was, ‘Am I crazy or do I not have a foot right now?’” Truwit added in an interview with CBS and The Associated Press. Am I ever going to be able to be an athlete again?’” Ali Truwit and Paralympic swimmer Elizabeth Marks attend the 11th Annual Gold Meets Golden Event in March in Los Angeles. “A year ago, I was just working to get back in the water,” Truwit told CBS and AP.
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