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Janna Crawford

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Janna Mizens
Personal information
Nationality United States
BornAuburn, Washington
EducationUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alma materAuburn (Auburn, Washington)
Spouse
(m. 2008)
Medal record
Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair basketball
Gold medal – first place 2004 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball

Janna Lynette Mizens née Ellsworth (born November 18, 1974) is an American Paralympic wheelchair basketball player. She has won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Paralympics.[1]

Career

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Crawford attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she competed on their women's wheelchair basketball team and was named to the second team All-Tournament.[2] She wrote her masters thesis on "Constraints of elite athletes with disabilities in Kenya," which she later published with Monika Stodolska in the Journal of Leisure Research.[3]

She competed with Team USA at the 2000 Summer Paralympics.[4] At the 2004 Summer Paralympics, she recorded nine points and 10 rebounds to help Team USA win gold over Australia.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Janna Crawford". paralympic.org. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  2. ^ "'SipMA Signs Media Guide" (PDF). libsysdigi.library.uiuc.edu. 2004. p. 41. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  3. ^ Monika Stodolska; Janna L. Crawford (2008). "Constraints Experienced by Elite Athletes with Disabilities in Kenya, with Implications for the Development of a New Hierarchical Model of Constraints at the Societal Level" (PDF). Journal of Leisure Research. 40 (1). Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  4. ^ "All-Time Paralympic Team Rosters U.S. WoMen's Teams" (PDF). cdn2.sportngin.com. 2016. p. 43. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  5. ^ Gluskin, Jon (October 6, 2004). "Led by Illini, U.S. women take gold in wheelchair b-ball". The Daily Illini. Retrieved January 5, 2020.