Roundup: Jamie Whitmore Celebrates Induction Into Sacramento Sports Hall of Fame

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High School Memories

Jamie Whitmore, a two-time Paralympian, headed back to find her past upon her induction into the Sacramento Sports Hall of Fame on Feb. 4.

“I was asked to find pictures from high school of me running for this weekend’s Hall of Fame event!” Whitmore posted on Instagram. “I had to dig deep into my bin of old yearbooks to find these gems!”

Whitmore attended Valley High School in Sacramento and then went to Cal State Northridge. She now lives in Somerset, California, which is located between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe.

“I recently started a running club for kids after school,” she continued. “I found a 5K for my middle schoolers to do at the end of this month. It’s the Davis Stampede. I remember doing this same event in high school and after college! I have many fond memories running in these fun runs with friends! Not only those, but when I coached high school cross country and would team up my runners with mountain bikers to participate in the Chonoko Mountain bike Duathlons!!”

Whitmore became a world-class off-road triathlete after college, then made the switch to Para-cycling after a rare form of cancer resulted in a condition called “drop foot” that limited the use of her left leg.

Here’s a look at the Sacramento Sports Hall of Fame Induction announcement:

Happy New Bike Day

New bike day was definitely a happy day for 2016 Paralympian and multi-time world champion Samantha Bosco.

“There aren’t many things that are better than NEW BIKE DAY; am I right?!” Bosco posted on Instagram.

“Thank you @royscyclery for always helping me be ready to take on the biggest challenges and chase even bigger goals.”

Racing Like the Wind

Kate Brim, a handcyclist who won a pair of world titles in 2022, battled the challenges of Australia’s wind in a world cup road race held in January.

“Wow! What a race!” she posted on Instagram. “Another amazing opportunity to work with the upper classes and I did just that. Right off the bat I did have to play some catch up and managed to do just that. We dealt with a lot of wind and a lot of separation right off the front.

“I went way faster than I ever thought I’d be able to.”

Brim won in the WH2 class.

Adelaide the “Showstopper”

The season’s first world cup stop in Adelaide, Australia, was a “showstopper.”

And from the Australian side …

Hitting the Gravel

Paralympic cyclists Jamie Whitmore and Allison Jones extended their Australia world cup trip by a few days when they also participated in an RADL GRVL gravel racing event in and around Adelaide.

“To me, the appeal of gravel riding and gravel racing and even mountain biking is that you take cars out of the equations,” Whitmore, a two-time Paralympian who won a pair of world cup medals in Australia, told USParacycling.org. “And you get to spread out. When we go do this, we get to ride next to each other and don’t have to worry about moving for another car. We can just ride.”

Jones, an eight-time Paralympian in cycling and alpine skiing, and who won two medals in the Adelaide World Cup, had previously ridden in the original GRVL tour in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

Read more about their Australian adventure here.

Aiming for Paris

Gabby Platt, who was still in need of a bike when she attended her first U.S. Paralympics Cycling camp years ago, is ready to make a run at the world cup team and the Paralympic team headed to Paris later this year.

“Right now I feel 100 percent motivated,” Platt told USParaycling.org. “I feel stronger than I’ve ever felt in this sport.”

First up for the Oklahoman is the U.S. Paralympics Road Cycling Open in April.

Read more about Gabby’s journey here.

Paul D. Bowker has been writing about Olympic and Paralympic sports since 1996, when he was an assistant bureau chief in Atlanta. He is a freelance contributor to USParaCycling.org on behalf of Red Line Editorial, Inc.