NSGA March 2023 Athlete of the Month

Paula Franetti

Delaware Senior Olympics 2019 Charlie Marten Memorial Award Recipient Paula Franetti has been named NSGA March 2023 Athlete of the Month!

From the NSGA website:

To see Paula Franetti mixing it up in women’s basketball competition at the National Senior Games last year, we marveled that the Pittsburgh native had worked her way back to a fully active life after a horrific car crash.

In September 2016 Paula was driving to her Pittsburgh office when she was blindsided by a speeding driver who ran the light. The impact was so violent her Honda CRV spun across the road and struck a rowhouse before coming to a rest on the other street. Paula said she felt she had died. “I had no pain,” she says. “I was in a really peaceful place – my car wasn’t even there.”

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