Lake Kwaza
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National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||
Born | Sycamore, Illinois | November 7, 1993|||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Bobsled | |||||||||||||||||
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Lake Kwaza (born 7 November 1993) is an American bobsledder and sprinter.[1][2]
Biography
Kwaza was recruited to the American bobsled team after an injury ended her ambitions to be a track athlete, she competed at college level from 2012 to 2016 and competed in Olympic trials for the United States in 2016.[3][4]
During the 2018–19 Bobsleigh World Cup she was paired with three-time Olympic medallist Elana Meyers acting as the brakeman of a two-women bobsled.[5] Her best performance to date was a gold medal finish at the 2019 Lake Placid event. She took part in the 2019 World Championships in the two-women event but did not finish having completed only three of the five required runs.[6]
She joined the United States Army in 2019 as part of their World Class Athlete Program with the aim of qualifying for the 2022 Winter Olympics.[7]
References
- ^ "Team USA Profile". Team USA. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "IBSF | Lake Kwaza". www.ibsf.org. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
- ^ "Lake Kwaza". Athletic.net. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
- ^ CARIFIOEmailFollow, EDDIE. "Sycamore grad Lake Kwaza competing U.S. bobsled team". www.daily-chronicle.com. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
- ^ "Lake Kwaza focuses on Olympic goals". amsterdamnews.com. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
- ^ BMW 2019 IBSF World Championships Results (PDF). IBSF. 2019.
- ^ Hern, Keith; EZEmailFollow. "Sycamore native joins Army as she chases Olympic dream". www.daily-chronicle.com. Retrieved 2020-02-20.