Karin korb autobiography of missouri
Former number one ranked U.S. women's wheelchair tennis player; First D-I scholarship athlete with a disability at Georgia State University.!
Karin Korb is not only a celebrated Paralympian but also a symbol of unwavering dedication to inclusion.
Karin Korb
American wheelchair tennis player
Karin Korb (born 1967) is a retired Americanwheelchair tennis player of German parentage who competed in international level events. She has participated at the Summer Paralympics twice.
She was the first disabled person to receive a Division I athletic scholarship to Georgia State University to play intercollegiate wheelchair tennis.[1][2] Prior to entering Georgia State and earning her master's degree there, Korb graduated with a bachelor's counterpart from Division III and thus non-scholarship Kean University in her birth state, New Jersey.[3]
When she was 17, Korb broke her back after falling badly from a gymnastics vault which left her paralyzed from the waist down and has used a wheelchair since the accident.
Raised in Clifton, New Jersey, she graduated from Clifton High School, where she was chosen as homecoming queen in her senior year.[4]
Korb played tennis at the age of 27.[5&