Physical Therapist: Donna Smyers has been a physical therapist since 1995. She has recently fully retired from her Fixer-Upper Physical Therapy practice in Adamant Vermont.
Triathlete: Donna has competed in triathlon since 1985, placing 3rd 35-39F in her first Ironman World Championship in Kona in 1993 and 1st 65-69F in her most recent Ironman Kona in 2022 with 7 Age Group wins between 1997 and 2022. Donna came back from a quad tendon rupture and repair in late 2012 to become the 55-59 USAT Olympic distance National Champion and 55-59 World Champion at the sprint and 70.3 distances in 2014. In 2018, she was inducted into the USA Triathlon Hall of Fame. She was named the USA Triathlon Grandmasters Triathlete of the Year for 2021 and the Celeste Callahan Great Grandmasters Triathlete of the Year for 2022. Donna applies knowledge gained from training and competing to enhance her physical therapy practice, coaching and triathlon camps.
Education: BA and MS in Engineering from Dartmouth College 1979 and 1987, MS in Scientific Basis of Human Performance from University of Oklahoma 1991 and BS in Physical Therapy from University of Connecticut 1995.
We are the first siblings to have been inducted!