Before this year, Kimball High School sophomore Kimball High School sophomore Luis Salinas had never competed in wheelchair racing before.
This year, he’s training for regionals.
Salinas is the first Dallas ISD student to compete in wheelchair racing, following encouragement from Kimball High head track coach Wendy Robinson. She told NBC DFW, “I saw the very first time that he raced — it’s just the lightbulb went on, and so he’s been hungry for it ever since.”
Next week, Salinas will be competing at regionals. If he advances, he will go to state in Austin. “So exciting,” Robinson said.
For Salinas, this experience is about more than racing, it’s about what’s possible. “Anything is possible for a kid in a wheelchair,” he said.
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