McClain Hermes

Quick Facts

When Hermes was eight years old, she had four emergency eye surgeries due to retina detachments, the result of Wagner Syndrome
• She is now completely blind in the right eye and describes the vision in her left eye as, “seeing through a straw with wax paper over it"
• Her vision loss is progressive
• The teenager competed for the U.S. at the Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games and holds 10 short course American records in the S12 classification
• Daughter of Matt and Carmen Hermes
• Has one brother, Logan, and one sister, Madeline
• Interests include cross-training and tandem bike riding with family and friends
• Also enjoys traveling, reading, and writing
• Hermes and her father began Shoes for the Souls as a small service project in 2009
• The first year she collected and donated 365 pairs of new and used shoes to the Atlanta Mission, which serves homeless men, women and children
• That "small service project" has now collected and donated over 15,000 pairs of shoes to The Atlanta Mission

Paralympic Experience

• 2-time Paralympian;
• Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020, 6th (400m Freestyle S11 - Women), 10th (100m Breaststroke SB11 - Women), 11th (100m Backstroke S11 - Women), 13th (200m Individual Medley SM11 - Women)
• Paralympic Games Rio de Janeiro 2016, 8th (100m Backstroke S12 - Women), 14th (400m Freestyle S13 - Women), 15th (100m Breaststroke SB13 - Women)

World Championships Experience

• Most recent: 2024 – 11th (PTVI - Women)
• Years of participation: PTVI - Women 2023, 2024; 100m Freestyle S11 - Women 2017, 2022, 2023; 400m Freestyle S11 - Women 2017, 2022, 2023; 50m Freestyle S11 - Women 2017, 2022, 2023; 100m Backstroke S11 - Women 2017, 2022; 100m Breaststroke SB11 - Women 2017, 2022
• Medals: 6 (1 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze)
• Gold – 2017 (400m Freestyle S11 - Women)
• Silver – 2017 (100m Backstroke S11 - Women, 100m Freestyle S11 - Women)
• Bronze – 2023 (400m Freestyle S11 - Women); 2017 (100m Breaststroke SB11 - Women, 50m Freestyle S11 - Women)

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