Spotlight: Averie Mitchell

Averie Mitchell, an eleven-year-old from Oklahoma, is a gymnast who isn't hindered by her leg prosthetic. She was diagnosed with pseudarthrosis, which caused her right leg to have a false joint. Mitchell's leg was amputated below the knee when she was two years old. She quickly adjusted to her first prosthetic and became interested in gymnastics in which she trains three hours a day, four days a week. Mitchell competed with 13 of her teammates in the AAU National Gymnastic Championship in Tampa last June. She engages in outdoors activities with her family and has a dog named Hattie, a black Labrador mix that's also missing part of one of her right legs. Mitchell, an honor roll student, eventually wants to study physical therapy and be on the gymnastics team at the University of Oklahoma. For more information about Mitchell, go to https://newsok.com/article/5603309/eleven-year-old-hugo-gymnast-averie-mitchell-is-an-inspiration.

Averie Mitchell

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