Great Kate: 'She's Just Like Any Other Teenager'

12/13/2018 6:01:25 PM

WESTBROOK ' Kate Jorgenson stood a couple steps behind the three-point line and she was ready when the basketball came to her. She took aim at the basket, fired quickly and the ball hit nothing but net as fans of the Westbrook-Walnut Grove Chargers cheered. It was a remarkable shot by a remarkable athlete.

I first wrote about Kate when she was a ninth-grader on her school's golf team. She's now a 16-year-old junior, and the fact that her left arm was amputated above the elbow after an ATV accident in 2013 has never slowed her down.

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