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Houston-area girl unexpectedly can't walk, now rocking wheelchair basketball
['Melissa Wilson']
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"The first time I put a basketball in her hands and had her do some dribbling from the wheelchair and shooting.
I could already tell she's gonna be a rising star," says Peggy Turner, Community Athletics Liason and Adapted Sports Recreation Coordinator with TIRR Memorial Hermann in Houston.
MORE: USDA targets sugar, sodium in new proposed nutrition standards for school mealsIt has been a trying time, but wheelchair basketball has helped empower Grace and her family.
Grace has gotten to work with Peggy, the adapted sports recreation coordinator at TIRR Memorial Hermann.
She's an inpatient at TIRR Memorial Hermann, working hard with therapists to regain her ability to walk again.
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