Name: Roderick Sewell
Sport: Swimming
Classification: S8, SB6, SM8
Height: 6-1
Weight: 165
DOB: 4/29/1992
Birthplace: San Diego, Calif.
Hometown: San Diego, Calif.
High School: John Carroll Catholic High School
College: University of North Alabama
Team/Club: United States Resident Team
World Championship Experience
- Most recent: 2017 – bronze (34 pt. 4x100m medley), 4th (34 pt. 4x100m free), 7th (100m breast)
- Years of Participation: 2017
- Medals: 1 (1 bronze)
- Bronze – 2017 (34 pt. 4x100m medley)
Other Career Highlights
- 2015 CanAm Para Swimming Championship, gold (100-meter breaststroke)
- 2014 Pan Pacific Para Swimming Championship, gold (100-meter breaststroke)
- 2014 Pan Pacific Para Swimming Championship, bronze (200-meter relay)
- 2015 Parapan American Games, bronze (100-meter breaststroke)
- 2015 CanAm Para Swimming Championship, gold (100-meter breaststroke)
- 2014 Pan Pacific Para Swimming Championship, gold (100-meter breaststroke)
- 2014 Pan Pacific Para Swimming Championship, bronze (200-meter relay)
Personal:
Roderick Sewell made his debut with the U.S. Para-swimming team at the 2014 Pan Pacific Para-swimming Championships where he won both a gold and bronze medal. He learned how to swim by his coach and mentor, Alan Voisard, at the Mission Valley YMCA in San Diego when he was ten years old. Because of a tough childhood, Sewell was forced to live homeless in San Diego. When he became involved with the Challenged Athletes Foundation, an organization that helps to provide disabled athletes with a path to success as well as running legs, his life quickly changed for the better. In his free time, Sewell enjoys running, surfing, volunteering and teaching at an outreach swim program at his local San Diego YMCA.
