Mallory Weggemann had five Paralympic medals to her name until this summer. Add two to that count: gold and silver medals earned while swimming in the 2024 Paris Paralympics in August. Weggemann, who lives in Eagan, had a busy year as she worked toward training for competition in Paris, and this time there was a new team member in tow alongside her husband Jay Snyder: their 2-year-old daughter Charlotte.
Snyder and Little Charlotte celebrated Weggemann’s accomplishments alongside other family and friends who traveled to Paris. For most of the group, the trip consisted of crossing an ocean, but it was a much bigger journey for the family of three. That journey is what they chronicle in their documentary “Watershed,” which sheds light on Snyder’s infertility and journey toward starting a family through IVF treatments in addition to Weggemann’s journey as a athlete with disabilities.
Weggemann became paralyzed from the waist down after a failed epidural treatment at 18. Her left arm was also paralyzed following a spinal injury from a fall before the 2016 Rio Paralympics. “Seeing Charlotte point and go ‘mama’ as Mallory came out to the starting blocks in a packed arena and her banging her cowbell and going nuts.
.. seeing that all come to fruition is so special,” said Snyder, who is co-CEO and co-founder of TFA Group, a brand marketing agency and production studio, alongside Weggemann.
The documentary also shows Weggemann’s training process for the Tokyo Olympi.