by HollyBall » Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:26 am
My avatar is my most recent x-ray showing my three plates and nineteen screws.
Why I left Utah is kind of a long story. First off, I really was not being treated well by the athletes out there. I would receive threatening e-mails and phone calls on a daily basis saying how I deserved to get run over by that sled, that nobody would come visit me in the hospital, and I deserved to rot in hell for what I did... ect ect ect. Even though in no way did I cause that accident. It was one hundred percent the tower operators fault and there is a video proving it so, but that doesn't seem to matter to some people and they believe I am the one to blame.
My leg was is so damaged from the accident that I can barely walk normally without my cane, let alone sprint while pushing a bobsled. I am missing a section of muscle from the side of my leg the size of my hand, which causes me problems while running. I used to row during high school, so I thought maybe I could take that up again, since it is a fluid and controlled motion with out the impact of running. The university of utah does not have a rowing team so I applied to the schools with the best rowing teams and academic standards in the country . I was offered scholarships to many, and I chose Rutgers, so now I am in new jersey.
I am not planning to compete in bobsled at this time, but possibly in the future, after a few more surgeries to fix my leg I may be able to. I have been offered ice time, a sled, housing and a coach whenever I want it in LP (they know that if I hadn't been standing in the track moving a sled out of the way when the next athlete was coming down, the athlete would have run head first into it and possibly been killed). I may go up there this winter when nobody is around and have people nudge me off... so I don't have to run.