Andrew
Jenks

Paralympian 2016

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GOLD

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SILVER

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BRONZE

Athlete Bio#

Height

6'4"

Age

Hometown

Wilmington, DE

Education

Brandywine High School (Wilmington, Del.) West Chester University ’13, B.A. Political Science, University of Delaware ’15, M.A. Political Science & International Relations, PhD ’18, Political Science & International Relations

classification: B3

Quick Facts

Son of Gordon and Elaine Jenks
Born with incomplete achromatopsia, a non-progressive and hereditary congential retinal condition characterized by decreased vision, light sensitivity and partial color blindness
Introduced to goalball in 2000 at a sports day sponsored by Delaware Association of Blind Athletes (DABA) at the Bob Carpenter Center at the University of Delaware
Met John Mulhern, a member of the U.S. Men’s Goalball Team that had just returned from the 2000 Paralympic Games in Sydney, and Greg Gontaryk – two coaches he credits with teaching him the ‘in’s and out’s’ at a young age
Hobbies include reading, exploring major metropolitan areas, going on brewery tours and tasting pretty much anything out there
Plays the saxophone and loves listening to and playing funk/jam music
Lives by the motto: “The world is your oyster so shuck it, put some hot sauce on it, and shoot it.”