‘Murderball’ is for women, too: How Sarah Adam became the first woman on the US Paralympic wheelchair rugby team

There was no need to defend Sarah Adam on the court, at least not in the eyes of her opponents.

Competing in her first wheelchair rugby competition, she was an unknown, she was inexperienced, and she was a woman playing a male-dominated sport.

“No one knew that I maybe know a little bit about rugby,” said Adam, a 32-year-old from Naperville, Illinois. “Until about three plays in.” Read More