CSO Conference & Awards: A Golden Opportunity [Video]

Credit: 2016 Joe Kusumoto

On the CSO event team, we had a rooting interest in the Para triathlon this past weekend in Paris.

Competing among the 4,500 athletes in the 17^th Summer Paralympic Games was Melissa Stockwell, a three-time World Champion in the sport, and a keynote speaker at the upcoming CSO Conference & Awards.

The event – in which athletes swim, cycle, and run – is taxing, and Stockwell was up to the challenge. She finished fifth, with teammate Hailey Danz winning the gold.

Stockwell will bring her story of achievement at the Paralympics as well as her larger journey to the CSO Conference & Awards, taking place October 21-23 near Phoenix.

As a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, she deployed to Baghdad, Iraq, where a blast from a roadside bomb struck her Humvee. She lost her left leg above the knee …