Norman hasn’t been at Cedarville long — she graduated from Xenia Christian in the spring — but she is already one of its most famous students. She wore gold and bronze medals from the Paralympic Games around her neck, and the gold matched the balloons everyone around her held. At all once, everyone released the balloons, which soared as high as Norman did last weekend in Rio de Janeiro.
Norman, who’s known as “Amazing Grace,” won gold Sunday in the triathlon and bronze Monday in the 400-meter run. The university celebrated her return Wednesday. During the ceremony, Cedarville Mayor Robert Fudge proclaimed it to be Grace Norman Day in Cedarville.
“I had a lot of good things happen during the games,” Norman told the crowd. “Pretty much all good things. A lot of the cross country team wrote me letters. When I got to my hotel (in Rio), they were all spread over the bed, and then there were pictures from when I was a little kid and from throughout my athletic career. I cried. It meant so much to me that I had so many prayers surrounding me and people loving on me and supporting me.”
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