MATHEWSON Dana

Classification
Open (itftennis.com, 05 Feb 2020)

Type of Impairment
Impaired muscle power (Athlete, 01 Jun 2016)

Impairment Details
At age 10 she was diagnosed with transverse myelitis, a neurological condition characterised by an inflammation of the spinal cord. (tennis.com, 04 Sep 2019)

General
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
In 2021 she spoke about being a victim of racial discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States of America. "Experiencing any form of discrimination because of that [her Chinese heritage] has been something new to me. I've never [before the pandemic] had someone ask me, like, 'Oh, did you go to China and bring this pandemic back to us?' Or making jokes about the fact that I must have eaten a bat, and that's why everyone here is experiencing this. I know that my family has experienced jokes like that. I'm very lucky that jokes are pretty much the length of what I've had to experience. I haven't experienced outright hatred, but even jokes are hurtful. It is sad that, in a country that was built on all sorts of different cultures, Chinese or Asians being one of them, it's sad that those people are now not being treated as equals." (uk.news.yahoo.com, 08 Apr 2021)

FURTHER EDUCATION
She has studied for a master's degree in clinical audiology at University College London in England. She previously studied speech and hearing science at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ, United States of America. (Facebook profile, 30 Apr 2019; thehartford.com, 20 Apr 2019; Instagram profile, 19 Apr 2021)