2023 Jim Thorpe Courage Award Winners: 3 Inspiring Stories of Resilience
2023 Jim Thorpe Courage Award Winners: 3 Inspiring Stories of Resilience
INTEGRIS Health Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation recently celebrated the 29th annual Courage Awards, recognizing three incredible recipients. These individuals were recognized for overcoming disabilities caused by injury and illness, facing physical and mental challenges of rehabilitation with courage and determination.
Watch each of their inspiring stories below.
Rylea Kilburn
Richard Gray
Charlotte Lankard
About the Jim Thorpe Courage Award
The INTEGRIS Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Courage Award was established in 1994 to recognize and honor individuals who have overcome disabilities caused by injury or illness, by facing the physical and mental challenges of rehabilitation with courage and determination.
The awards are named after the man known as the World’s Greatest Athlete. Jim Thorpe, a Sac and Fox Indian he won gold medals in the 1912 Olympic games in Stockholm, Sweden, in the pentathlon and decathlon events. Those medals were confiscated in 1913 because Thorpe had been a professional athlete. The medals were presented again to the Thorpe family in 1983.