Sarah Adam
Sarah Adam (born December 17, 1990) is an American wheelchair rugby player and an occupational therapy professor from Naperville, Illinois. She plays as a 2.5-classified athlete for the United States. She has won gold at the 2022 Americas Championship, silver at the 2022 World Championship, and gold at the 2023 Parapan American Games—the first American woman to win gold in that event. On April 30, 2024, she was named to the U.S. Paralympic wheelchair rugby team for the Paris 2024 Games, becoming the first American woman to represent the United States in wheelchair rugby at the Paralympics. At Paris, she also became the first American woman to score in Paralympic wheelchair rugby, and the U.S. team won the silver medal. Adam earned a BS from Augustana College and a Doctorate in Occupational Therapy from Washington University in St. Louis. She is an associate professor of occupational science and occupational therapy at Saint Louis University. Her research focuses on helping people with disabilities gain independence and participate more fully through community-based exercise and adaptive sports, and she is a member of the American Occupational Therapy Association.
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