LOADING 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 …
The first step for swimmer Ali Truwit was overcoming her newfound fear of the one place she had always felt safe — the water. “I’ve definitely relied on other people’s comeback stories to help me hold on to what feels like a bold and unrealistic hope — of fighting off a shark and surviving and losing a limb and making …
