Hope Lewellen

{{Short description|American wheelchair tennis and sitting volleyball player (born 1967)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2024}} {{Use American English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox volleyball biography | name = Hope Lewellen | image = | caption = | full_name = | nickname = | birth_date = {{birth-date and age|April 20, 1967}} | birth_place = Palos Park, Illinois, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | hometown = | height = | medaltemplates-title = Medal record | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry | {{USA}} }} {{MedalCompetition|Paralympic Games}} {{MedalSport|Women's wheelchair tennis}} {{MedalSilver|1996 Atlanta|Doubles}} {{MedalSport|Women's sitting volleyball}} {{MedalBronze|2004 Athens|Team}} {{MedalSilver|2008 Beijing|Team}} {{MedalCompetition|WOVD Intercontinental Cup}} {{MedalBronze|2008 Ismaïlia, Egypt|Team}} }}

'''Hope Lewellen''' (born April 20, 1967)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.itftennis.com/wheelchair/players/player/profile.aspx?playerid=55000138 |title=Paralympics: Hope Lewellen |publisher=International Tennis Federation |date=September 25, 2013 |accessdate=July 6, 2013 |archive-date=September 28, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928025653/http://www.itftennis.com/wheelchair/players/player/profile.aspx?playerid=55000138 |url-status=live }}</ref> is an American wheelchair tennis and sitting volleyball player.

==Biography== Lewellen was born in Palos Park, Illinois. In 1996 she won her first medal which was silver for her participation in wheelchair tennis at Paralympic Games, Atlanta, Georgia. Four years, in Sydney, Australia she became quarterfinalist in the same sport. In 2004, she won a bronze medal in Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.paralympic.org/sdms4/hira/web/competition/athens-2004/volleyball |title=Volleyball at the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games |website=paralympic.org |access-date=April 26, 2019 |archive-date=April 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190426014617/https://www.paralympic.org/sdms4/hira/web/competition/athens-2004/volleyball |url-status=live }}</ref> Four years later she was awarded another bronze medal, this time for her participation in World Organization Volleyball for Disabled Intercontinental Cup in Ismaïlia, Egypt. The same year she won a silver medal in Women's Sitting Volleyball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.teamusa.org/Athletes/LE/Hope-Lewellen |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228183102/http://www.teamusa.org/Athletes/LE/Hope-Lewellen |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 28, 2014 |title=Hope Lewellen |publisher=United States Olympic Committee |work=Team USA |accessdate=July 6, 2013}}</ref>

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==External links== * {{IPC|hope-lewellen}} * {{Team USA|new_id=hope-lewellen|old_id=LE/Hope-Lewellen|archive=20221206053407}}

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