Emmy Kaiser
American wheelchair tennis player
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Emmy Kaiser (born May 16, 1990) is an American wheelchair tennis player.
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| Country (sports) |  United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | May 16, 1990 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 0 in (1.52 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
Kaiser was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. A graduate of St. Henry District High School, she is a 2011 Parapan American Games gold medalist for doubles wheelchair tennis and silver medalist for singles. She resides at Fort Mitchell, Kentucky and is living with spina bifida.[1] She has a bachelor's degree in psychology and attended Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana for a degree in exercise and sport psychology in which she got enrolled right after the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Her passion for such career persuasion started at the age of 14 when she met sports psychologist during a training session at the U.S. Paralympic Junior National team.[2] Her tennis passion was inspired after she saw a tennis player named Esther Vergeer.[3] In 2012, she was defeated by Lucy Shuker of Great Britain with 6–0, 6–2 loss in London Paralympic Games.[4] In 2014, she lost to Jordanne Whiley with the score being 6–2 twice.[5]
In 2016 Kaiser was named Player of the Year by the International Tennis Federation[1] and in 2017 she was inducted into the Northern Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame.[6]
