Paralympian
Deb Gruen
Paralympian 2004, 2008
Athlete Bio
Hometown
Hamden
Education
Gruen has been swimming since the age of five and has been competing at the national level since 1999. She was valedictorian of her high school class and began her coursework at Yale in the fall of 2006, where she maintained a heavy concentration in economics and mathematics. Her 2008-2009 academic year was spent at Beijing University where Gruen studied Chinese.