Cheryl Angelelli
Cheryl Angelelli-Kornoelje is a retired American para swimmer, an Oakland University bachelor's degree's graduate and a motivational speaker. She was inducted into the Michigan Athletes with Disabilities Hall of Fame in 2000, she is named Female Amateur Athlete of the Year by the State of Michigan twice in 2000 and 2003.Biography
When Angelelli was a teenager, she sustained a spinal cord injury after breaking her neck from hitting her head on the bottom of the pool after falling off a starting block in 1983; she took up para swimming in 1998 in Detroit. She created a documentary film titled Untold Dreams to raise the awareness of the many abilities of disabled people and knowledge of the Paralympics as well as talking about her success in competitive swimming.
Angelelli retired from swimming in 2013 and switched to wheelchair ballroom dancing.
