Lindsey Carmichael
Carmichael during bronze medal match, 2008
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| Full name | Lindsey Ann Carmichael |
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July 22, 1985 (age 31) San Antonio, Texas |
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Lindsey Ann Carmichael (born July 22, 1985, in San Antonio, Texas) is a Paralympic Bronze Medalist.
She spent her first years in Uvalde, Texas, and then moved to Austin and then Lago Vista, Texas, where she attended middle and high school. Diagnosed at the age of 4 with McCune-Albright syndrome, she experienced a number of bone fractures (leg, hip, and arm) and surgeries to remedy the impact of the disease. This required her to use body casts, crutches and a wheelchair at various times. Her femurs and tibias were eventually rodded with steel and titanium rods.
At the age of 13 while in middle school, a math teacher overheard her discussing with a friend the lack of PE (physical education) options for students in wheelchairs such as herself. He suggested she try archery. Lindsey became an archer at Archery Country JOAD, participating on a weekly basis. JOAD is the National Archery Association's acronym for "Junior Olympic Archery Development". In the ensuing years she set a number of records in her age group, competing as both an able-bodied category as well as an archer with disabilities, setting numerous at the Texas State level, US national records and even world records. She underwent a 16-hour surgical procedure to shift 2.5 cm of bone from one femur to the other in Dec. 2002 at the Rochester Mayo Clinic, suffering a hip fracture in the process and had to learn to walk again. She competed in a US national tournament just a few months later, finishing 47 of 71 archers. Lindsey represented the United States in international tournaments starting in 2003 at the International Paralympic Championships in Madrid, Spain where she won a slot for the United States at the 2004 Paralympics.
While at the Athens Paralympics in 2004 she set a world record of 603 (out of a possible 720) shooting at 70 meters at a 122 cm target during the qualifying round. Lindsey ultimately finished 6th in Athens as a standing female recurve archer.
On April 1, 2005 she was ranked 8th among all adult able-bodied women recurve archers in the United States, finishing 2nd at the Texas Shootout archery tournament as an (able-bodied) female senior recurve. She continued to compete, while attending the University of Texas with a double major in English and history, representing the United States by attending competitions in Korea, Slovakia, and England.
She achieved both All-American and Academic All-American status as an archer in both 2006 and 2007 for UT. In 2006 Lindsey finished in the National Archery Championship US Open in 5th place as an able-bodied archer.
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