Janna Crawford

Janna Lynette Mizens née Ellsworth (born November 18, 1974) is an American Paralympic wheelchair basketball player. She has won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Paralympics.

Career

Crawford attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she competed on their women's wheelchair basketball team and was named to the second team All-Tournament. She wrote her masters thesis on "Constraints of elite athletes with disabilities in Kenya," which she later published with Monika Stodolska in the Journal of Leisure Research.

She competed with Team USA at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. At the 2004 Summer Paralympics, she recorded nine points and 10 rebounds to help Team USA win gold over Australia.

References

Living people

Illinois Fighting Illini women's basketball players

American women's wheelchair basketball players

Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for the United States

Paralympic gold medalists for the United States

Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics

People from Auburn, Washington

Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball

Wheelchair basketball players at the 2004 Summer Paralympics

1974 births

20th-century American women

21st-century American women