Natalie Mirage (kidney recipients) with parent Patti and Mark (living kidney donor).
Fifteen-year-old Natalie Mirage is about to enter her sophomore year at Oxford Area High School, where she belongs to the school’s tennis and swim teams, is a member of the school’s color guard, and also competes on the swim team at the Jennersville YMCA.
So when the invitation to showcase her athletic talents to another part of the United States opened up this summer, she jumped at the opportunity, and from Aug. 2-7, she and her father Mark competed in the 2018 Transplant Games of America in Salt Lake City, Utah.
In all, the father-and-daughter team took home nine medals from the Games: Natalie earned gold in tennis singles, a bronze in tennis doubles, a silver medal in the 50-meter swim freestyle, and two more bronze medals in the 200-individual medley and 500-meter swim races.
Mark earned a gold medal in the 100-meter sprint, a silver in the 1500-meter run, and also picked up a silver medal in the 100-meter freestyle and bronze in the 50-meter freestyle swim events.
Read more stories about Team Philadelphia at the Transplant Games.