February 4, 2010 in Sports

Now’s her time

NC senior Alexander opted for amputation to play basketball again

John Blanchette The Spokesman-Review

North Central senior Mariah Alexander uses her prosthetic leg to launch a jump shot.
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Under anesthesia when her right foot was amputated, it wasn’t until the time came to change the cast that Mariah Alexander would see just what she no longer had – in what surely would be a tense, grisly, heartbreaking moment.

“You don’t have to look,” she was told.

Look?

She took pictures with her cell phone – and sent them to her parents. It may be something of an upset that she didn’t mail them out as Christmas cards.

“More than anything,” she said, “I was excited.”

This is not an attitude easily explained, nor is the one she displayed …

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tdimond on February 04 at 9:45 p.m.
Mariah…
You make us all proud. You have been thru so much and we have watched you be very strong, grow and learn from this. It brought tears to my eyes watching you play in that first game at Shadle and again today at Groovy Shoes. You are a great girl. We love you!

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