Sydney Barta

Biography

Sydney E. Barta, Arlington, is a senior at Stanford University, where she majors in bioengineering. She has won multiple medals as a member of the U.S. Paralympic National Team and is the first Paralympian on the Stanford track team. Sydney is the co-president of Stanford’s chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society, and has earned academic distinction across courses in the sciences and humanities. Sydney serves on the Collegiate Athlete Advisory Council for the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee and was elected by Team USA athletes to advocate for all Paralympians as the General Paralympic Representative on the Team USA Athletes Commission. She sings in the Stanford acapella group “Counterpoint.” At Oxford, Sydney hopes to complete a graduate course in Musculoskeletal Sciences.