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GLASA athlete to compete in 2016 U.S. Paralympic wheelchair track and field trials

Christian Clemmons, a wheelchair track athlete with GLASA in Lake Forest, qualified for the 2016 U.S. Paralympic Wheelchair Track and Field trials June 30-July 2 in Charlotte, N.C. Photo Submitted

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GLASA athlete to compete in 2016 U.S. Paralympic wheelchair track and field trials
3:25 pm PDT March 30, 2016

Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association’s wheelchair track athlete Christian Clemmons, of Zion, is now training under Adam Bleakney, the men’s paralympic head wheelchair track coach at the University of Illinois’s Paralympic Training Center.

Clemmons is studying kinesiology and sports psychology and is looking to coach track as a profession.

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