Aerial Gilbert - 2006

It’s news enough that, in her early 50s, Aerial Gilbert was recently named to the U.S. National Adaptive Rowing Team. But, even more amazing than that, Gilbert is blind. After losing her sight in 1988 in a traumatic incident involving tainted eyedrops, the former nurse rediscovered her old college sport, rowing. “As long as you have someone to guide the boat down the river, you’re on an equal field,” the Petaluma resident told j., the Jewish News Weekly of Northern California in 2004.