Swimming For Her Life At National Senior Games In Birmingham
By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
Terrill McBride was breathing hard as she climbed out of the pool at Birmingham CrossPlex Tuesday afternoon.
The 66-year-old finished third in her heat and sixth overall in the women’s age 60-69 division 50-yard freestyle of the National Senior Games. Her competitive spirit aside, her beaming smile made it clear that she bore no regrets for not outracing five of her 39 fellow senior swimmers.
Especially since they are not the opponent she is trying hardest to hold at bay.McBride has idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a degenerative lung disease that is fatal. She’s lost her father and a brother to the disease and another brother has it as well.
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