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Wheelchair Curling
Sitting Volleyball

Penny Ricker

Paralympian 2004, 2014, 2018

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Athlete Bio 

Age

54

Hometown

Green Bay, WI

Education

University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh

Quick Facts
  • Three-time Paralympian (2004, 2014, 2018)
  • Bronze medalist in sitting volleyball at Paralympic Games Athens 2004 
Biographical Information 

Penny Ricker grew up playing volleyball including playing for her high school varsity team in Green Bay, Wisconsin. A train incident in her senior year of college caused her right leg to be amputated above the knee.

Greeley would make her Paralympic debut at age 32 in sitting volleyball, winning a bronze medal at the Paralympic Games Athens 2004. Seven years later, after trying wheelchair basketball, Ricker made her first U.S. team for the wheelchair curling world championships in 2011.

Ten years after her Paralympic debut, she made Team USA in wheelchair curling and competed in her first Winter Paralympics.

Paralympic Experience
  • 3-time Paralympian; 1-time Paralympic medalist (1 bronze)
    • Paralympic Games Pyeongchang 2018, 12th (Team - Mixed)
    • Paralympic Games Sochi 2014, 5th (Team - Mixed)
    • Paralympic Games Athens 2004, Bronze (Team- Women) 
World Championships Experience
  • Most recent: 2017 – 7th (Team - Mixed)
  • Years of participation: Team - Mixed 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017
  • Top finish: 4th – 2013 (Team - Mixed)

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