Candidate for ESPYs Best Female Athlete with a Disability Award
CSUSOP set up the Public Hearing date of Sept. 6.
The ESPY Select Nominating Committee should consider nominating Carli Cronk of San Antonio, Texas, for the 2024 Best Female Athlete with a Disability ESPY Award. (The Committee already conferred last month for the 2023 nominees.)
Two weeks ago, Cronk collected 15 medals - 12 golds, two silvers, and a bronze - at the 6th World Deaf Swimming Championships in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The swimming news website SwimSwam ran an excellent article," Carli Cronk Thrives At World Deaf Swimming Championships With 12 Gold Medals.” This article includes the meet results.
If she wins, Cronk will become the second Deaflympian to receive the award. The first is Becca Meyers, Deaflympian/Paralympian, who won this award twice in 2015 and 2017.
Finally, the Commission on the State of U.S. Olympics and Paralympics (CSUSOP) announced its public hearing.
“The Commission on the State of U.S. Olympics and Paralympics unveiled the agenda and panelists for its September 6 hearing in Washington, D.C., with a curious emphasis on youth and community sport rather than elite competitions.”
On behalf of the CSUSOP watchers, I thank Rich Perelman, Editor of the Sports Examiners, for running a sub-article, "USOPC review commission sets agenda, speakers," while the national media were silent. Click CSUSOP News Release.
Past, present, and future Deaflympians and I are more interested in focusing on Session IV at 1:00 p.m.: Athletes’ Rights, Equity, & Accessibility and Ensuring Fair Play.” One speaker in this Session will be Jeff Mansfield, President, U.S.A. Deaf Sports Federation. Mansfield will deliver his top priority:
“Deaf and hard-of-hearing athletes deserve more. Today, we are seeing widening disparities between the Olympics and Paralympics on one side and Deaflympics on the other. The time to build a broad movement to invest in Deaf sports is now. Such a movement is necessary to champion the rights, justice, and dignity of Deaf and Hard of Hearing people everywhere.” (July 12, 2022)
Keep looking for my coming newsletters about the CSUSOP.