Video: Young Athlete Pushes the Limits of a Crippling Disease

8th December, 2014

[Source: ESPN Via ABC News]
Entering her senior year at Mount Tabor High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Kayla Montgomery had big goals—to win the Cross-Country State Championship. It was a goal that seemed completely impossible just three years earlier, when Kayla was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis–an often debilitating disease that in in Kayla’s case causes her to lose all feeling from the waist down during a race.

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