Arm missing, heart intact
Tom Shanahan's profile of Dawn Halfaker won first place for sports stories at the 35th annual San Diego Press Clubs Awards Dinner on Oct. 21 at the Hall of Champions. The story was published July 17, 2007: Capt. Dawn Halfaker (U.S. Army retired), a basketball star at West Point and three-sport athlete at Rancho Bernardo High, lost her right arm on the frontlines in Iraq and has since founded a security consulting company, Halfaker and Associates.
Photos of Dawn Halfaker serving in Iraq in 2004 and playing for Army's women's basketball team from 1998 to 2001. Click on photos for larger images.
Basketballl photos: USMA
Iraq photos: Courtesy Dawn Halfaker.
