Susan Katz
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| Nationality |  United States | |||||||||||
| Born | Olney, Maryland | |||||||||||
| Education | University of Illinois | |||||||||||
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Susan Katz is an American Paralympic wheelchair basketball player. She has won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. She was previously a producer at ESPN.
Katz was born in Olney, Maryland with mild spina bifida but later moved to California.[1] At the age of ten, her legs became paralyzed after a failed spinal cord surgery.[2] While her parents encouraged her to walk with crutches and braces, she insisted on using a wheelchair.[1] Katz later attended Quince Orchard High School and the University of Illinois, where she played on the wheelchair basketball team.[3]