CC Roberts hits the rail
Subject: CC Roberts
Photo: Josh Letchworth
TSQ Location: Book 2.2, Profile section, Page 54
Some things in life are amazing. You know that feeling when you watch the Olympics and the 16-year-old girl does a backflip twist and lands perfectly on a 6-inch balance beam? It all rushes into my brain….the commitment, determination, patience and practice to perfect super-human abilities. Enter CC Roberts. He retains all of those characteristics while being constrained to a wheelchair from an accident that happened 11 years ago. But I think the point here is that none of these athletes ever use the word “constrained” in their vocabulary. Anything and everything is possible.
CC must have hit this rail at The Projects 50 times. He showed up. He stared a challenge straight in the eye and gave it everything he had. I watched him take smacks to the face that would have put me on the shore for the day. He would sit patiently and then ask to be pulled over the rail again. Amazing.
-Josh
