Sam Grewe
Personal information | |
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Full name | Samuel Grewe |
Nickname | Sam |
Nationality | American |
Born | Goshen, Indiana, U.S. | June 10, 1998
Height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) |
Weight | 165 lb (75 kg) |
Sport | |
Country | United States |
Sport | Paralympic athletics |
Disability | Osteosarcoma |
Disability class | T42 |
Event | High Jump |
Club | Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association (GLASA), Chicago, Illinois |
Coached by | Kyle Mishler (personal) Jeremy Fischer |
Medal record |
Samuel Grewe (born June 10, 1998) is an American Paralympic high jumper. Grewe contracted osteosarcoma aged 13 which resulted in a pseudo-amputation procedure called a rotationplasty being performed on his right leg. Grewe jumped for the University of Notre Dame Track and Field Team, where he studied Pre-Med and resided in Fisher Hall on campus.[1][2] As of 2022, Grewe attends the University of Michigan Medical School. Outside of athletics, Grewe is also a motivational speaker, including a TED Talk that he delivered in February of 2022.
Early life[edit]
Samuel (Sam) Grewe was born and raised in Middlebury, IN. He was a student in the Middlebury Community Schools system and attended Northridge High School, where he graduated in the class of 2017. During the basketball season of his 7th grade year, he began to experience a sharp pain in his right knee, which he originally attributed to growing pains. However, on Christmas Eve of 2011, the pain in his knee was diagnosed as osteosarcoma. He underwent 21 sessions of chemotherapy to treat the disease. He also chose to have his leg amputated via a rare procedure called rotationplasty. This choice was based on his belief that it would give him the best chance of returning to sports.
References[edit]
- ^ "Samuel Grewe - Athlete Profile". Team USA. June 29, 2019. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015.
- ^ "Sam Grewe - Athlete Bio (One to Watch)". International Paralympic Committee. June 29, 2019.
External links[edit]
- Samuel Grewe at Team USA (archived)
- Samuel Grewe at the University of Notre Dame
- Sam Grewe at the International Paralympic Committee
- Sam Grewe at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)
- Sam Grewe at the IPC Tokyo 2020 website[dead link]
- Sam Grewe at IMDb
- Sam Grewe on X
- Sam Grewe on Instagram
- 1998 births
- Living people
- Track and field athletes from Indiana
- American male high jumpers
- Paralympic track and field athletes for the United States
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Paralympic gold medalists for the United States
- Paralympic silver medalists for the United States
- World Para Athletics Championships winners
- Medalists at the 2019 Parapan American Games
- Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's track and field athletes
- People from Goshen, Indiana
- 21st-century American sportsmen