A year ago, Ali Truwit never wouldve imagined shed be competing in the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games .

On May 24, 2023 two days after the Connecticut native graduated from Yale University, where shed had a successful swimming career she experienced a tragedy that she described to Kelly Clarkson in February as everyones worst nightmare.

She was snorkeling off the coast of Turks and Caicos with her friend and former Yale teammate, Sophie Pilkinton, when a huge shark came out of nowhere and started fighting us, she told Clarkson.