A shark attack changed her life but that hasn’t stopped this CT Paralympian from giving back
- Posted on May 25, 2026
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A shark attack changed her life but that hasn’t stopped this CT Paralympian from giving back
HARTFORD, Conn. — Three years ago, a shark attacked Ali Truwit while she was snorkeling in the Turks and Caicos Islands. A few days later, on her 23rd birthday, Truwit, a Yale swimmer who grew up in Darien, Conn., was in a hospital in New York undergoing the amputation of her lower leg. “As you can imagine, those were really dark hard days for me, where I felt just a level of pain and grief ...
