Sue Williamson

Personal Trainer

From a very young age I have been active in sports and fitness. I was raised in Cleveland, Ohio, one of eight children. I enjoyed playing volleyball, field hockey and softball and competitively participated in gymnastics and diving. Later, I represented my high school while competing in synchronized swimming. It was in my senior year that I was picked up by a coach who started training me for the 1984 Olympics.

While in pursuit of the Olympics, I graduated, got married, moved to Florida and had a child in 1982.  My dreams of Olympic competition were replaced with my new found responsibility of being a mom. I maintained my dedication to fitness, and continued working out and running daily.

After a divorce, I moved back to Cleveland in 1983. While I was on my way home from work one night in 1984, I was in a life-changing car accident. My head shattered the windshield, my leg was pinned between a telephone pole and my stick shift left me with a compact fracture to my tibia. I underwent extensive surgery to place a rod through the bone to keep it in place for two years.