Samuel (Sam) Grewe was born and raised in Middlebury, IN. He was a student in the Middlebury Community Schools system and attended Northridge High School, where he graduated in the class of 2017. During the basketball season of his 7th grade year, he began to experience a sharp pain in his right knee, which he originally attributed to growing pains. However, on Christmas Eve of 2011, the pain in his knee was diagnosed as osteosarcoma. He underwent 21 sessions of chemotherapy to treat the disease. He also chose to have his leg amputated via a rare procedure called rotationplasty. This choice was based on his belief that it would give him the best chance of returning to sports.
Athletic Career
Sam began competing in high jump in 2014, two years after losing his leg to cancer. He began his track & field career as a member of the Northridge High School Track & Field team. He quickly found success in this event, earning a spot on the Doha 2015 World Championships team,[3] where he earned his first World Championship title at the age of 17. In the following year, he competed at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Games,[4] where he earned a Silver Medal. After graduating from high school in 2017, he attended the University of Notre Dame, where he competed on their varsity track & field team.[5] In 2017, Sam won his second World Championship title at the London 2017 World Championships.
After graduating from the University of Notre Dame in 2021, Sam attended the University of Michigan Medical School, where he competed for the University of Michigan Adaptive Sports and Fitness Team. Shortly after, Sam competed at his second Paralympic Games at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, where he earned a Gold Medal, jumping a height of 1.86m.[6] Sam returned to athletics in 2024, earning a Bronze medal at the World Para Athletics Championships in Kobe, Japan. He later competed in his 3rd Paralympic Games at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, where he ended in 8th place.
Medical Career
Grewe graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2021 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He went on to earn his Medical Degree from the University of Michigan Medical School in 2025. He is currently completing his residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston.
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