Name: Charlie Swearingen

Position: Middle Blocker

Sport: Sitting Volleyball

Discipline(s): Sitting Volleyball

Height: 6-3

Birthplace: Gulfport, Miss.

Hometown: Gulfport, Miss.

High School: Gulfport High School

College: Millsaps College

Paralympic Experience

• 2016: Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro (8th Place)

World Championship Experience

• 2018: World ParaVolley World Championships (8th)
• 2014 : World ParaVolley World Championships (10th Place)
• 2010: Sitting World Championships (10th Place)

Other Career Highlights

• 2019 - Parapan American Games (Silver)
• 2016 - ParaVolley Intercontinental Cup (6th Place)
• 2015 - Parapan American Games (Silver)
• 2012: Intercontinental Cup in Cairo, Egypt.
• 2011: Parapan American Games (Silver); Continental Cup; Sarajevo Open
• 2010: Parapan American Championship (Silver Medal); WOVD World Cup (Fifth Place)
• ---
• DID YOU KNOW?
• Charlie was born without ankle bones or the small, non-weight bearing fibula bone in his lower legs
• He is a certified flight paramedic, and has worked a variety of disasters, including the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
• Charlie played baseball through college. He also played beach volleyball on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
• Charlie found out about sitting volleyball in 2009 while attending the Endeavor Games in Edmond, Okla.
• Charlie is working on his PhD in physiology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center

Personal: Full name is Charles Freeman Swearingen... Father Gene Swearingen died in 2013, Mother is Jan Swearingen... Has a sister named Susan Scott... Wife is Marge Fraser Swearingen... Admires his parents for "ommitting the words disability and failure while raising me and highlighting the word love."

More