Mobility My Way: A Planner and Pioneer of What’s PossibleLifestyle and Sports, Living With a Disability, Spotlight
Tricia Downing is a planner. More specifically, she’s that special proactive type who always likes to look and think five steps ahead so that she will be ready for what’s around the corner and heading her way. The strategy has served her well especially as a paraplegic following her spinal cord injury resulting from a competitive bicycle training collision with a car in September 2000. She earned master’s degrees in both sports management and disability studies, authored two books (the 2010 memoir “Cycle of Hope” and the 2018 novel “Chance of Rain”), is a founder and camp director, corporate speaker, and Learning Designer for Ernst & Young.
She’s a pioneer, too. In the world of adaptive sports, Tricia is a longtime voice in paratriathlon and paraduathlon, the first woman to complete an Iron distance triathlon and a multiple-time competitor in the Hawaii Ironman World Championships. She has worn the red, white, and blue for Team USA in adaptive rowing and, of late, is the country’s top female Paralympic air pistol competitor having represented Team USA at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games.
Tricia is also a [...]