Karin Korb
Karin Korb is a retired American wheelchair tennis player of German descent who competed in international level events. She has participated at the Summer Paralympics twice. She was the first disabled person to receive a Division 1 athletic scholarship to Georgia State University to play intercollegiate wheelchair tennis.
When she was 17, Korb broke her back after falling badly from a gymnastics vault which left her paralyzed from the waist down and has used a wheelchair since the accident. Raised in Clifton, New Jersey, she graduated from Clifton High School, where she was chosen as homecoming queen in her senior year.
She played tennis aged 27.
