Spotlight: Lily Rice

Lily Rice of Pembrokeshire, Wales, is a wheelchair motocross (WCMX) rider. She was born with hereditary spastic paraplegia, a disorder in which symptoms include weakness and stiffness of the legs. (Her mother has a milder form of the condition.) Rice received her first WCMX wheelchair right before her 13th birthday. She became the first European female to do a backflip in her wheelchair after only seven months. Last year, she won the Women's WCMX World Championships and was given the title of Young Sportswoman of the Year at the Welsh Sports Awards. Rice, who is also a swimmer and a student, was recently featured in a Community Voices video on Facebook. She and other WCMX riders along with adaptive skaters will participate in the 2020 ASF Adaptive Sports Jam February 14-16 in St. Petersburg, Florida. For more information about Rice, go to https://www.lilyricewcmx.com/.

Lily Rice

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