I was born without legs, but my parents wanted me to live the most normal（正常的）life possible.They would like me to try new things.So I played T-ball, soccer, track and other sports using wheelchairs（轮椅）, but couldn't really keep up.
I started playing sled hockey（雪橇曲棍球）when I was 8, and I fell in love with it at once.It is not played in a wheelchair.Instead, we move around the ice on sleds.We use two sticks（球棒）, both to skate and to shoot and pass the ball.
____.I watched the national men's team and thought, that's what I want to do.When I was 12, I did well in the youth games and tournaments, so I started playing on the men's team, with the men between 20 and 50 years old.It was so crazy, but it excited me.
In 2014, when I was 15, I became the youngest player to ever compete on the U.S.sled hockey team at the Paralympics（残奥会）.It felt like a dream.I went from being a normal high-school kid to flying to Russia and competing on stands and enjoyed it all.
As players, we're always trying news ways to shoot, working on things that no one notices but make a big difference on the ice.For us, there is a lot of practice, but we usually get to play on a couple of games a year.The Paralympics in Beijing lot us test everything we have worked so hard for.We finally won gold.It was our fourth gold medal in this big game.
