Mary Killman will fulfill a lifelong dream when she competes in the London Olympics this summer. But for the 21-year-old member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, it just won’t
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London-Bound: An Interview With Mary Killman, Olympic Synchronized Swimmer
Watch Olympic Gold Hopeful and Citizen Potawatomi Nation Member Mary Killman’s Synchronized Swimming Prowess
Yahoo! Sports had a nice write up yesterday about 21-year old Mary Killman, the Citizen Potawatomi Nation member who’s hoping to nab a gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Killman’s mastery of symmetry in the water is matched by the symmetry of the moment she finds herself in—following her idol, Jim Thorpe, into the Olympics exactly 100-years after his legendary 1912 performance in Stockholm.
NMAI’s Best in the World: Native Athletes in the Olympics
The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm in which Native athletes put on a stunning performance with the upcoming exhibit “Best in the World: Native Athletes in the Olympics” which opened on Friday, May 25 through September 3.
