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ESPN Magazine Features Sheila Taormina
ESPN the magazine tells the story of Sheila’s athletic career and how she’s making Olympic history in Beijing.…
More | Posted: July 3, 2008Sheila Taormina Makes Olympic History
USA Pentathlon Accepts Olympic Invitations from UIPM and Officially Nominates Sheila Taormina, Margaux Isaksen and Eli Bremer to the 2008 U.S.…
More | Posted: June 10, 2008Washington Post Covers Sheila’s Olympic Qualification
Amy Shipley from the Washington Post talks about Sheila’s tremendous accomplishment, her first-ever feat of qualifying for the Olympics in a third sport.…
More | Posted: June 4, 2008Sheila Taormina is on the Verge of Olympic Qualification
Based on the outcome of this weekend’s world championships and her place as the top US female in pentathlon, Sheila will soon be announced by USA Pentathlon as one of two women representing the US in Beijing.…
More | Posted: June 3, 2008Taormina Enters Olympic Qualification Homestretch
On the morning before Sheila Taormina left for the final modern pentathlon World Cup of her career, she stood at the starting line of a 10-kilometer race at Burns Park in Ann Arbor and yelled into a megaphone, reminding runners: “All right!…
More | Posted: May 7, 2008Taormina Continues Her Quest to Make History
On this particular morning, Sheila Taormina woke up at 5:30 am. Before lunch, she had time to swim 4,500 meters, take a one-hour riding lesson and run 7.5 miles in the hills above her training facility.…
More | Posted: March 26, 2008Taormina to Share the Dream
Olympic gold medalist and three-time Olympian Sheila Taormina (Livonia, Mich.) has long given back to the community in many ways including sport clinics and motivational speeches.…
More | Posted: January 25, 2008“Copper Country” Receives Visit from Olympians
It’s a Dream Team of a different kind.
Come Monday, the Copper Country will get a visit from five female Olympians hoping to inspire future athletes and others to achieve their own dreams.…
Girls Listen to Olympians’ Message: Hard Work Necessary
Setting goals is necessary, but it won’t be enough.
That’s the message that five female Olympians told a crowd of 200 Saturday morning at Churchill High School.…
Taormina Goes Back for Third Olympic Helping
Like Michael Corleone in the famed scene from “Godfather III,” just when Sheila Taormina thought she had retired from sports, she got pulled back in.…
More | Posted: November 2, 2007