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For Dani Aravich, Dominating One Paralympic Sport Isn't Enough

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What? Like it’s hard?Aravich’s journey to her multi-sport Paralympic debut technically started in high school. Born without her left hand and forearm, she grew up racing track and field on able-bodied teams.

She got a certificate from the U.S. Paralympic track team saying she’d qualified for the honor of being an All-American (a symbolic honor given to top high school athletes across the country).

But, unfamiliar with the Paralympics and para sports at the time, she didn’t give the letter a second thought, going on to run Division I track at Butler University in Indiana.

The Paralympics didn’t land on her radar again until after she graduated. Feeling unfulfilled at work, she started “loosely” training on the track, mostly to have something outside of her 9 to 5 to focus on. “It was January of 2019 when I started picking up training while working.

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