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Article: Tennis star serves as inspiration
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- August 16, 2004
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Tennis star serves as inspiration
Port native heading to Athens for the Paralympic Games
By DON BEHM dbehm@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel
Monday, August 16, 2004
Kaitlyn Verfuerth, a former Port Washington High School tennis
player, is taking her racket to Athens, where she intends to smash
and volley her way to a gold medal.
She will also be taking her wheelchair.
Verfuerth will be competing at the 2004 Paralympic Games,
beginning Sept. 17, as one of only four members of the U.S. women's
wheelchair tennis team. The Paralympics, Olympic-style games for
athletes with disabilities, have been held the same year as the
Olympics since 1960.
More than 11 years after a semitrailer collided ...