Paralympian Grace Nuhfer missing start of senior year to compete in Paris NBC New York [Video]

“Apologies for not being in class. I swear I have a good excuse.”

That’s the email Grace Nuhfer plans to send to her college professors at the University of Akron, she said as she sat with a Paralympic silver medal draped around her neck.

The 22-year-old is entering her senior year at Akron, where she’s majoring in data analytics with a focus in marketing and is a member of the non-para swimming team.

The semester has already begun, so Nuhfer will have some catching up to do once she returns home from Paris, but she wouldn’t have it any other way.

Just a year after making a splash in her para swimming debut at the California Classic — where she swept all six of her events and set an S13 American record in the 200m butterfly — Nuhfer not only made her Paralympic debut, but won the silver medal in her first event (100m butterfly).

It’s a …