Achilles International-Nashville

Category: Archive


It’s our 6th Birthday!

Achilles Nashville's Birthday cake

Happy Birthday Achilles Nashville

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We love Peter!

Groupshot with Peter

Dear Achilles Athletes, Guides, Volunteers, and Friends   It is with a heavy heart that we share the news we learned this morning (March 25, 2018) that our fellow board member, Peter Pressman, passed away. According to the Nashville Striders…

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The Big Payback

Achilles May 2 fundraising log is a combination of Achilles logo combined with the Big Payback logo, cityscape in background with text that reads help us run this city, orange tennis shoes hanging from a construction image in cityscape with Achilles Nashville written on them

The Big Payback is coming back, and we are participating! The Big Payback, a community-wide, online giving day hosted by The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, returns on Wednesday, May 2rd, and Achilles International-Nashville is thrilled to be participating for…

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Seeing Blindness

Groutshot from left to right Chris Pennington, Amy Harris, Stephanie Zundel and Guide Dog Marley, Rachel Dillard, Christy Ray, Theresa Khayyam, Lena Menkes, Ricky Jones, Dwaine Jones, Randy Hodge

Robert Houser, photographer, with Facing Light Foundation captured the beauty and spirit of many visually impaired/ blind athletes including our Achilles Nashville team while at the California International Marathon and the United States Association of Blind Athletes National Championships in…

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2019 Race Calendar

Groupshot from Rock and Roll Nashville

See All The Races We Are Doing This Year!

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Team Stephanie

  Athlete Stephanie  Zundel I am from New Jersey. I am in the Master’s program at Vanderbilt University. At the age of three, I went blind due to a severe allergic reaction to Children’s Motrin. I ended up getting a sickness…

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