A super-excited Rachel Parker and Todd Eisinger of Fairlawn are leaving today for Albufeira, Portugal, where they will compete in the Down Syndrome International Swimming Organization World Championships.

Cathy Parker said her daughter — who will celebrate her 28th birthday in Portugal — has been swimming competitively for 15 years in the Special Olympics and has nearly 100 medals (most of them gold).

Todd, 26, competed last fall in the 2007 Special Olympics World Games in Shanghai, and brought home four.......