Michelle Dusserre-Farrell - Building Accessible Places to Play

Michelle Dusserre-Farrell, 1984 Olympic Silver Medalist (Gymnastics) and senior director of athlete, curatorial & programs at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum, joins Wendy Hilliard for the episode 2 of Champion Sports Moms! On this episode, Michelle talks about her gymnastics career, including how watching Nadia Comaneci was a turning point, and her current mission to build universally accessible spaces for athletes. Tune in to hear about Michelle’s experiences competing at the 1984 Olympics in her hometown, managing parenthood and her daughter’s spina bifida diagnosis, and her daughter Abby Farrell’s journey trying different sports as a kid to now being an internationally competitive wheelchair basketball athlete. Michelle and Wendy discuss how to be OK stepping back as protector and letting your child-athlete figure things out on their own, the power of teaching your child self-advocacy, and more!