Luzi: If you're in a wheelchair, you can do anything you want.
Interviewer: Have you ever fallen? Luzi: Yes multiple times.
Elizabeth: Go, go, go, go.
Interviewer: So people describe you as a daredevil.
Do you like that? Luzi: Yeah, because it's true.
My name is Luzi I’m 12 years old and I'm a spina bifida warrior.
When I was six, I started playing sports.
Elizabeth: You’re getting so good. Luzi: My mom made me kind of try
skating and I was kind of scared.
And then when I tried it I was like, oh, I like this.
Elizabeth: Good job, that's so good Luzi.
Luzi has always had an adventurous spirit.
When she was a baby she was always the happiest
she would laugh at everything.
Lucy has spinal bifida myelomeningocele,
which is the third the worst case of spina bifida.
Luckily it’s on her lower back so it didn’t affect her arms.
It just affected her from the waist down.
And then she does have hydrocephalus which is fluid in the brain.
Do you want big hair or little hair?
We have to make it kind of like not so big
because you have to wear your helmet later.
Luzi: First we are going to the basketball practice and then to the skate park.
What's your favourite? Luzi: Skate park.
Elizabeth: Skate park? We're going to get you to college with what?
Basketball.
What do you like about skating? Luzi: Going fast.
Elizabeth: Going fast. Luzi: Thank you, buddy.
Elizabeth: At first I'm not going to lie I was scared,
but now I just let her do her thing.
I can't show her I'm scared because if I show her
I'm scared she'll be scared. Ready let’s do it.
Luzi: I started playing basketball when I was seven.
My favourite part about basketball is shooting.
Interviewer: Are you like the star shooter on your team?
Luzi: Yes.
Woman: I started when I was 12.
And so I've been playing for four years now.
There's not a lot of girls in the league so
whenever we can get another girl, it's always awesome.
She's got the shot, she's got the speed, got the chair skills.
Everything else will just come with time.
Interviewer: Alright, Luzi before you hop in, what's next?
Luzi: Skating. Interviewer: You have any energy left?
Luzi: Maybe.
I started going to the skate park when I was six or seven.
I was really nervous because the ramps looked pretty big to me.
Interviewer: Have you ever fallen? Luzi: Yes multiple times.
I couldn’t get up a ramp and like I have like turned
and I fell like sideways and it hurt.
I just got back up and had fun again.
I'm faster than all the boys at the skate park.
Interviewer: How are you feeling? Luzi: Good.
Interviewer: Yeah? Luzi: Yeah.
Interviewer: Have you ever dropped in on the big bowl?
Luzi: Yeah.
Interviewer: How do you feel? Luzi: A little scary
because I haven’t skated in a very long time.
Interviewer: What’s it feel like when you drop in on a bowl like that?
Luzi: Scary. Interviewer: Scary?
Luzi: It's beating still.
Elizabeth: She makes me proud every time because I feel like every time we do
something like whether it's basketball serving, she always does something new.
I’m like I didn’t know you could do that.
I'm happy, she's healthy and she can show other people
that don't know that they can do certain things.
Show them that they can, there's no limits.