Athletes

Aimee Mullins is a member of the Women's Sports Foundation Board of Trustees, Past-President and Chair of the Athlete Relations Committee.  Representing the United States in the 1996 Paralympic Games, Mullins set Paralympic records in the 100m dash and the long jump. In 2007, Mullins was named one of the “10 Most Inspiring Women” by Self Magazine. For the past two years Mullins has celebrated National Girls and Women in Sports Day by ringing the NASDAQ closing bell and lobbying Congress. A graduate of Georgetown University in the School of Foreign Service, Mullins became the first athlete with a disability to compete against athletes without disabilities as part of an NCAA Division I track team. In 1996 she set world records for leg amputees in the 100m, 200m and long jump. The following year Mullins was named USA Track and Field's Disabled Athlete of the Year and the National Association of Women in Education's Woman of Distinction. She was featured in an exhibit at the Women's Museum in Dallas as one of the greatest American women of the 20th century. Mullins was included in Irish America's 1999 "Top 100 Irish Americans" for the third consecutive year. Mullins was also listed in HBO's list of "Up and Comers" (actresses) to watch in 2004 and was named one of Jane Magazine's 1999 "10 Gutsiest Women" and People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World.” Mullins has also received a Special Achievement Award from the National Rehabilitation Awareness Foundation. Most recently in 2008, the actress and model was featured on billboards, Web sites and print ads in Kenneth Cole’s “25 Years of Non-Uniform Thinking” campaign. (2/09)