A picture of Owen wearing a navy blue graduation gown with a gold shall that has the logo of the University of Arizona on it.

Owen Anketell

Owen is an all-season adaptive athlete. Since the age of 3 he has been skiing adaptively through New England Disabled Sports at Loon Mountain in New Hampshire, where he is an adaptive ski coach now.

During high school, Owen founded a non-profit to help raise awareness for adaptive sports and hand cycled from Calais, ME to Key West, FL to support his organization’s mission. They covered a total of 2,365 miles and educated many people along the ride.

At the age of 16, Owen obtained his Eagle Scout, earning 36 merit badges. He has been invited back to local scout meetings to discuss and show examples of all the adaptive sports he has been involved with and what opportunities are available for athletes and volunteers.

Owen graduated from the University of Arizona in 2022 with a business management degree. He went to the University of Arizona to play on their wheelchair tennis team. While playing four years of collegiate wheelchair tennis, Owen traveled throughout the United States and became a national champion.

Owen is currently a Loan and Collateral Analyst at Cambridge Savings Bank.