Paralympic Experience

1-time Paralympian;

Paralympic Games London 2012, 12th (Individual Foil A - Women)

Career Highlights

2012 USA Fencing National Championships, gold medal (Epee, Foil, Saber)
2012 March North American Cup, gold medal (Saber, Foil)
2012 Montreal Wheelchair Championship, bronze medal (Saber)
2011 Parapan American Games, gold medal (Foil), silver medal (Epee)
2011 USA Fencing National Championships, gold medal (Epee, Foil, Saber)
2011 North American Cup, gold medal (Epee, Foil)
2011 Malaga World Cup, tenth place (Epee)
2010 North American Cup, gold medal (Epee, Foil, Saber)
2010 Montreal Wheelchair Championship, bronze medal (Saber)
2010 Wheelchair World Championship, sixth place (Saber)
2009 Warsaw Wheelchair World Cup, bronze medal (Saber)

Facts: Daughter of Janet and Alan Bouwkamp... Currently a junior at Fishers High School... Began fencing at age 9 as a right-handed fencer and switched to left hand in the first year... Volunteers working with disabled persons through the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana and with underprivileged children in inner-city Cincinnati through her church... The same year she transitioned from able-boded to wheelchair fencing in 2009, she won a bronze medal at her first international competition in Warsaw, Poland at the age of 13... Top-ranked female wheelchair fencer in all three blades of fencing: foil, epee, and saber... Was one of the first U.S. athletes to qualify for the 2012 Paralympic Games in London.

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US Wheelchair Fencing

World Championships Experience

Most recent: 2019 – 9th (Team Epee - Women, Team Foil - Women, Team Sabre - Women), 27th (Individual Epee A - Women), 28th (Individual Sabre A - Women), 35th (Individual Foil A - Women)
Years of participation: Individual Epee A - Women 2011, 2013, 2019; Individual Foil A - Women 2011, 2019; Individual Sabre A - Women 2010, 2019; Team Epee - Women 2013, 2019; Team Foil - Women 2019; Team Sabre - Women 2019; Individual Sabre - Women 2013
Medals: 1 (1 bronze)

Bronze – 2013 (Individual Sabre - Women)

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