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.[1]

Janna Mizens
Personal information
Nationality United States
Born
EducationUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alma materAuburn (Auburn, Washington)
Spouse
(m. 2008)

Career

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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.[2] 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.[3]

She competed with Team USA at the 2000 Summer Paralympics.[4] At the 2004 Summer Paralympics, she recorded nine points and 10 rebounds to help Team USA win gold over Australia.[5]

References

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  1. "Janna Crawford". paralympic.org. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  2. "'SipMA Signs Media Guide" (PDF). libsysdigi.library.uiuc.edu. 2004. p. 41. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  3. Monika Stodolska; Janna L. Crawford (2008). "Constraints Experienced by Elite Athletes with Disabilities in Kenya, with Implications for the Development of a New Hierarchical Model of Constraints at the Societal Level" (PDF). Journal of Leisure Research. 40 (1). Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  4. "All-Time Paralympic Team Rosters U.S. WoMen's Teams" (PDF). cdn2.sportngin.com. 2016. p. 43. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  5. Gluskin, Jon (October 6, 2004). "Led by Illini, U.S. women take gold in wheelchair b-ball". The Daily Illini. Retrieved January 5, 2020.