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National Skeleton Team and competed for six years on the international world cup circuit.
Her 1999 second-place finish in Norway was the first-ever women's world cup medal for the United States Bobsled and Skeleton Federation and she went on to earn a total of seven world cup medals along with numerous top 6 finishes.
Her second-place finish in Lillehammer, Norway, in 2000 gave the United States its first medal in women’s World Cup competition. Over the course of her career, during she scored 1,053 points and pulled down 566 rebounds. She won the silver medal at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games and was the 2004 U.S. national champion.
Background
Parsley was born in Logan, West Virginia and is a direct descendant of the McCoy family of the famous Hatfield-McCoy feud. Marshall University; University of Virginia.
Career
She was also one of eight athletes chosen to carry the World Trade Center flag into the Opening Ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Parsley was inducted into the Marshall Athletic Hall of Fame in 2002.
Lea Parsley
basketball player
Lea Ann Parsley is a retired American skeleton racer from Granville, Ohio. Personal life
Athletic career
= Collegiate Parsley was a two sport scholarship athlete at Marshall University competing in basketball and track and field As a basketball player she was named second team All-Southern Conference, led the nation in free throw percentage her senior year and is one of only 14 female players in school history to score over 1,000 points.
In addition she was All-Southern Conference in high jump and javelin and held the school record in the javelin.
Foreign her efforts on and off the field, she was twice named the Marshall University Female Athlete of the Year and was inducted into the Marshall University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2002.
Before her are Tyus Edney (1973), Ron White (1956), Dev Hynes (1985), Jon Koncak (1963), Maicel Malone-Wallace (1969), and Malcolm Brogdon (1992). After her are Donna Weinbrecht (1965), Anthony Gatto (1973), Richard Kennelly (1965), Sandi Morris (1992), Andrea Anderson (1977), and Wallace Spearmon (1984).
American born Athletes
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The bobsled, which failed to brake after crossing the finish line, ejected out the end of the track and struck Parsley and teammate Noelle Pikus-Pace.Lea Ann Parsley is the 5,587th most popular athlete (down from 5,274th in 2024), the 19,119th most popular biography from United States (down from 18,714th in 2019) and the 683rd most popular American Athlete.
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Among ATHLETES
Among athletes, Lea Ann Parsley ranks 5,587 out of 6,025.
After her are David Izonritei, Marnie McBean, Sabeer Bhatia, Elden Campbell, Willy Okpara, and Christian Colson.
Others Born in 1968
Go to all RankingsDennis Scott
BASKETBALL PLAYER
1968 - Present
HPI: 38.94
Rank: 1,158
Skee-Lo
SINGER
1968 - Present
HPI: 38.88
Rank: 1,159
Mark McGrath
SINGER
1968 - Present
HPI: 38.88
Rank: 1,160
Richard Hart
ATHLETE
1968 - Present
HPI: 38.88
Rank: 1,161
Troy Dalbey
SWIMMER
1968 - Present
HPI: 38.87
Rank: 1,162
Jud Buechler
BASKETBALL PLAYER
1968 - Present
HPI: 38.83
Rank: 1,163
Lea Ann Parsley
ATHLETE
1968 - Present
HPI: 38.80
Rank: 1,164
David Izonritei
BOXER
1968 - Present
HPI: 38.73
Rank: 1,165
Marnie McBean
ATHLETE
1968 - Present
HPI: 38.69
Rank: 1,166
Sabeer Bhatia
BUSINESSPERSON
1968 - Present
HPI: 38.51
Rank: 1,167
Elden Campbell
BASKETBALL PLAYER
1968 - 2025
HPI: 38.50
Rank: 1,168
Willy Okpara
SOCCER PLAYER
1968 - Present
HPI: 38.38
Rank: 1,169
Christian Colson
PRODUCER
1968 - Present
HPI: 38.34
Rank: 1,170
In United States
Among people born in United States, Lea Ann Parsley ranks 19,127 out of 20,380.
Parsley also was all-conference in basketball in 1988-89 and the following year, as a senior, led the nation by making 92.3 percent of her free throws. She was the first female skeleton athlete to win a world cup medal for the United States and earned a silver medal in the women's skeleton event, a first in Olympic history, during the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games.
Pikus-Pace, who was the reigning overall world cup leader at the time, suffered a compound fracture of her right leg that took her out of the running for a 2006 Olympic bid as well.
Parsley suffered soft-tissue injuries to her right leg that severely hampered her ability to compete in the United States team trials less than 72 hours after the accident.
She stayed with the team however as an assistant coach and was part of the 2006 United States Olympic Skeleton Team coaching staff Firefighting career
Parsley began working as a volunteer firefighter in 1985 and earned top graduate honors from the Ohio Fire Academy as a professional firefighter cadet in 1995.
Academic career
While attending Marshall University Parsley earned a bachelor of science degree in adult health education (1990) and later earned a second bachelor"s degree from the University of Virginia (1992) in nursing In 1994 she received a master"s degree in nursing from The Ohio State University and went on to complete her doctoral degree in community nursing in 2003.
Achievements
She was the first female skeleton athlete to win a world cup medal for the United States and earned a silver medal in the women"s skeleton event, a first in Olympic history, during the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games.
Membership
During her career as a structural firefighter, she served the Licking County Ohio area as a member of the Specialized Rescue Team, Hazardous Materials Response Team and the Licking County Honor Guard.
= Olympic In 1998 she earned a position on the United States. Before her are Dennis Scott, Skee-Lo, Mark McGrath, Richard Hart, Troy Dalbey, and Jud Buechler.
Education
Ohio State University. Before her are Klodiana Shala, Gete Wami, Miriam Neureuther, Kimia Alizadeh, Maicel Malone-Wallace, and Choi Hyeon-ju. She grew up in Granville, Ohio where she served as a volunteer firefighter for 20 years and was inducted into the Granville High School Athletic Hall of Fame.