Each week, we offer a Q&A with a local personality. Today, 30-year-old Savoy resident Amanda McGrory, a professional athlete and a graduate student, teaching assistant and research assistant at the University of Illinois, chats with The News-Gazette's Melissa Merli.
What interests you the most right now?
3-D printing. We've been experimenting with it at our training center to replicate our expensive and custom-made wheelchair racing gloves. It's completely changed the way we manufacture and customize what was once a very complicated piece of equipment.
Tell us something few people know about you.