daring to dream is how little Alyssa has gotten through life since her accident last may she was hit by a truck her leg had to be amputated below the knee but she didn't let the operation keep her off the stage and less than a year into her new life Alysa delivered a showstopper at her dance studios's recital she performed an original piece and if you think just the dancing is brave watch this Alysa removes her prosthetic and doesn't miss a beat I asked her why she did it to um show them that I was still
me without it and to be myself lots of kids dream of being the next LeBron James or Kobe Bryant but Julian Newman may just have a shot only 11 years old he's playing guys 2 feet taller and 7 years older and guess what he's beating them they think that I'm not good but when they see me they they see different this fifth grader is already the starting point guard on his high school's varsity basketball team that's right fresh from elementary school Julian plays for the High School varsity team right away we knew he had a
talent his dad also his coach helped put together Julian's highlight reel on YouTube it's going viral with more than 2 and a half million hits and Counting welcome to the Trac Championship when Charlotte Brown runs down her Lane with her pink pole vault and leaps into the sky you hold your breath she's just 15 years old and she's learned to fly but what's most amazing is she can't see I really can't make out a blur even it just it really just doesn't it really just Blends in for me she can't see the track or the
fancy color of her pole vault or the faces of the people in the stands she's legally blind so you have no idea you know what I really look like right doctors don't know why but she started losing her sight when she was just 16 weeks old several surgeries later none of it helped she took to the pole vault Like A Champion but how in the world does someone who's blind do so well at something that's challenging for anyone this is what Pole vating looks like to a sided person but this is what it looks like
to Charlotte she says it's like looking down the inside of a little black straw and seeing a blurry light at the end so she has a system her coach lays artificial turf next to her Lane she can see the difference between light and dark and it helps her run straight 1 2 she counts her steps and then goes for it and now get this she's not just any po valter she's the best her high school has ever seen we're back now with a California boy who is celebrating after setting a new world record becoming actually
the youngest person ever to swim from San Francisco to alcatrez and back to about a little over 2 miles impressive long distance and he's only 9 years old James Savage walked onto the beach and collapsed in his mother's arms after that grueling 2-hour Trek he battled conditions uh that were also pretty bad windy and frigid he says he even considered giving up I thought it was going to be easy at first but then after I got out there the tide was pushing me all around I was about to quit but then I one kept on
going you know when when he first announced he wanted to walk a mile in a race the most year of her walk was 20 steps watching sports with Dad was his first love but running together quickly took over it's very difficult to have athletic events that you two can do together and for the past 6 years they have it started small with each race run by dad but finished by both um we just had a a a person the other day say you know Johnny could be a professional athlete and he said no I'm serious
he said he really could be uh first like me being able to endure endurance races and stuff but I think it's a tremendous lesson for me uh it teaches me that anything is possible who would have ever thought you know my son with cereal paly was going to be able to you know participate in an event of this magnitude in an ESPN E60 story from a few years ago Johnny challenged himself to walk the final mile of a 5K and realize the true feeling of competition and completion on his own that powerful day was the
day his athletic dreams began to be realized you have the ability to do something special and it's up to you uh to make that become a reality that has really been my biggest inspiration and my the biggest athlete that I look up to because of his determination uh to get me across that finish line the duo now faces its toughest test as they've been invited to run in the world's toughest race the Kona Iron Man World Championship Triathlon which will test both Johnny and Jeff's limits in unfathomable ways if you think based on watching these
images that 16-year-old Kate Foster is a talented gymnast you'd be right but that's not the whole picture this is the whole picture the Illinois teen is not only talented she's extraordinary able to defy gravity and stick Picture Perfect Dismounts with a prosthetic leg Kate's love of tumbling began at age seven she loved it right from the beginning the extra practices the extra time at the gym I've never really found anything that I've loved more but then at age 12 the unthinkable Kate was diagnosed with leukemia and an infection that ravaged her leg forced her to
choose between life and a limb they told me what was going on on and I said you're not taking off my leg I need that for gymnastics and they were kind of explaining to me you know this this bone marrow transplant won't work unless we do this it's really it's really your leg or your life Kate worried having only one leg meant her life as a gymnast was over but her coach had other ideas after the amputation my coach said something to me that really changed my mindset she said that she had never coached a
one-legged gymnast before but she was willing to try if I was so they set off on an Uncharted course today Kate competes with her team traveling throughout the nation in sanctioned gymnastics competitions
