My name is Augusto Perez....but everyone calls me Goose. I am an adaptive athlete. I lost my left leg after 3 bouts with a rare and aggressive type of cancer..."soft tissue sarcoma".
I was an avid soccer player all my life and i played through college. After losing my leg i become involved with adaptive sports in October of 2005....since then this are some of my small achievements.....
AUGUSTO "GOOSE" PEREZ
Major Adaptive Sport Achievements:
Wheelchair Curling
2010 Vancouver Paralympic Games 4th Place
2009 1st Place Kathy
Kerr Open, Ottawa Canada
2009 1st Place US open
2009 3rd Place Kinross Invitational,
Scotland
2009 4th place World Wheelchair Championships,
Vancouver, Canada
2008: Nominated to 2010 U.S. Paralympic
Wheelchair Curling Team
2008 1st Place US open
2008: USA Curling Male Athlete of the
Year (first ever for a wheelchair athlete, male or female)
2008: Bronze medal - World Wheelchair
Curling Championship, Sursee,
Switzerland
2007 3rd Place US Open,
2007 1st Place Kathy Kerr
Open, Ottawa Canada
2007: Sportsmanship Award - World Wheelchair
Curling Championship
2007: Fifth place - World Wheelchair
Curling Championship, Solleftea,
Sweden,
2006 1st Place Kathy
Kerr Open,Ottawa Canada
2006: Eighth place - Paralympic Winter
Games, Torino, Italy
2005: Selected to U.S. Paralympic Wheelchair
Curling National Team
Adaptive Outrigger Canoe:
2009 Inducted into International Canoe Hall of Fame,
Utica NY
2009 Gold Medalist Adaptive Canoe OC
2 200 meters Sprints World Championship, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2008 Gold Medalist OC 1
500 meters sprints World champion, Sacramento CA
2008 Silver Medalist OC 12 500 world
championships, Sacramento CA
2007 National OC 12 Champion, Eire PA
2007 Qualified for 2008 world championships
in OC1
Adaptive Rowing:
2010 C.R.A.S.H B's Sprints World Indoor Rowing Championship 1th Place Adaptive
Adaptive Sailing:
2009 North American Challenge Cup, Chicago Yacht Club, class Freedom 20, 5th Place
Community Involvement:
2009 Athlete Ambassador for The Hartford's
Paralympic Athlete Program
2009 USOC Athlete Ambassador for the "Team For Tomorrow Humanitarian Relief Fund"
2010 USADA Athlete Ambassador for the "I Compete Clean" Campaign
Committee member of Team USA Canoe/Kayak "Quality Thru E-Quality"