One year after losing her leg in a shark attack, Ali Truwit proved her resilient spirit by swimming for Team USA at the 2024 Paralympics She tells PEOPLE that her healing has been tied to giving back; ...

Ali Truwit had already been through so much. She survived a shark attack, barely, while snorkeling off the coast of Turks and Caicos in May 2023, following her graduation from Yale; the shark bit off ...

When American swimmer Ali Truwit first got back into the water after losing her leg in a shark attack, the sound of water rippling around the pool “triggered flashbacks” to that day. “It was really, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 24-year-old's achievements come just over a year after she lost her foot and part of her leg in a shark attack. She placed ...

A woman who lost a leg last year in a shark attack won a silver medal in the 2024 Paralympics in Paris. Ali Truwit, a Connecticut native, took home the silver medal Thursday in the women's swimming ...

Ali Truwit has proven she won't back down from a challenge. Two years after losing her left foot in a shark attack and a year after winning two silver medals in swimming at the Paralympics in Paris, ...

Ali Truwit is reflecting on her "surreal" journey, one year after losing part of her leg in a shark attack. In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, the 24-year-old swimmer – who won two silver medals ...

(Gray News) – Just 16 months after swimming for her life after being bitten by a shark while snorkeling in the ocean, USA’s Ali Truwit won a silver medal in her Paralympic debut. The former Yale ...

Sports quickly crossed Ali Truwit’s mind after she survived a shark attack off the coast of Turks and Caicos in 2023. But the former Yale freestyler, who went on to win two Paralympic silver medals, ...

Paralympian Ali Truwit got a personal call from Tom Cruise before she won a pair of silver medals in Paris. The “Top Gun: Maverick” star called the swimmer on Wednesday, Sept. 4, before two of her ...

The swimmer, who won two silver medals at the Paralympic Games, tells PEOPLE that her journey has been "surreal" Sean M. Haffey/Getty Ali Truwit is reflecting on her "surreal" journey, one year after ...