Episode 34 - Sarah Kirwan - Wheelchair Basketball Athlete and Coach

Sarah Kirwan is a wheelchair basketball player, coach, and manager. She was born and raised in Sioux City, Iowa. In her youth, she was an athlete and a musician. She played a variety of sports and played the saxophone.  She attended the University of Iowa on a volleyball and music scholarship, majoring in English, Journalism, and Mass Communications. She received her master's from Cal State LA in Public Administration. She currently spearheads her consulting firm, Eye Level Communications, which focuses on disability, diversity, and inclusion. She also hosts her own podcast – Incluse This! She was diagnosed with relapsing, remitting MS in 2011, and in 2019 she was diagnosed with superior semicircular canal dehiscence. You can follow Sarah’s journey at www.eyelevel.works, on Instagram, @eyelevel.works, and Facebook, @eyelevel.works.

Sports Saved My Life is produced by Angel City Sports
Clayton Frech is the Executive Producer
Dave Pantano is the Producer and Editor
Mackenzie Soldan is in charge of Marketing
Tony Memmel wrote and performed the theme song

About Angel City Sports

Angel City Sports provides free, year-round adaptive sport clinics, equipment, and competitive opportunities for kids, adults, and veterans with physical disabilities or visual impairments. Angel City Sports’ flagship event, the annual Angel City Games presented by The Hartford, debuted in 2015 and is now the largest multi-sport Paralympic competition in the U.S. for kids, adults, and veterans. Participants include, but are not limited to, individuals with limb differences and amputation, spinal cord injury, quadriplegia, spina bifida, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, blindness or visual impairment, traumatic brain injury, stroke, muscular dystrophy, and dwarfism or short stature. Ultimately, Angel City Sports is working to create a community and sense of belonging for people with physical disabilities, supporting them to reach their full potential and unlock their dreams through its programming in sport, the arts, health and wellness, higher education, career opportunities, and personal development. To learn more, please visit http://www.angelcitysports.org and follow @angelcitysports on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Linked-in, and YouTube.