From the course: Success Stories with Dave Crenshaw

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Adapting to disability with persistence and passion

Adapting to disability with persistence and passion

From the course: Success Stories with Dave Crenshaw

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Adapting to disability with persistence and passion

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(upbeat music) - [Host] Brad Snyder reclaimed his identity through swimming. He won his first gold medal on Team USA only a year after losing his eyesight. - [Brad] To cut through that uncertainty, I think we just wanted to start by reclaiming who I am. I was lucky to do some of my rehab down in Florida where I'm from, and one of my first weekends out of the hospital, my swim coach was at an event that I was at and just recommended, "Hey, do you want to come by practice on Saturday and just swim a few laps?" And it seemed like a really natural way to just say, "Yeah, that's me, I'm Brad. I swim. This is who I am. Blindness doesn't fundamentally change me. It changes, sort of, the outlook, I guess, but I'm still me, and I still want to be the same kind of person I want to be, and that person is a swimmer. Let me go back to practice." Pretty soon after that, someone from the Association of Blind Athletes reached out…

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