Erin Spaulding

Director

connecticut@achillesinternational.org
(203) 361-6176

Erin Spaulding is the current Director of the Achilles Connecticut Chapter. Starting as a volunteer leader in 2013, she began working for Achilles International part-time in 2014. In her role, she oversees Connecticut Chapter operations and liaises to headquarters in NYC.

Erin first joined Achilles in 2012 as an athlete, following a traumatic brain, neck, and shoulder injury she sustained in 2010. A life-long athlete, Erin was an avid runner and triathlete at the time of her accident. She used her determination as an athlete in her recovery to re-learn how to coordinate her walking, and later running. Joining Achilles International gave her back that piece of her life that she thought was gone forever. She became the Chapter Leader to show others that it IS possible to re-imagine and re-define your life due to injury and/or disability.

Her story and accomplishments with Achilles International have been featured in local and national media, in the Cigna GO YOU! campaign (The Road Home), and Runner’s World Magazine (June 2013). In 2015 she was named to the Aiello Inspiration Team for the Eversource Hartford Marathon & Half Marathon, where she walked the 5K a year after major hip surgery. Erin was also a finalist in Nike’s ‘Nominate Your Nike’, a recipient of the Frederick DeLuca Community Service Award (Subway), and a featured guest on Comcast Newsmakers.

Erin, her husband and three children live on the Shoreline and as a family, enjoy vacationing to Cape Cod, cheering for ALL the Boston sports teams (and UCONN basketball), and walking their doodle Charlie to the beach.