Heading off to her freshman year at Statesboro (Georgia) High School, Tazmerria Wilson had one very simple but meaningful goal – ride the regular school bus with her siblings. That mission accomplished, she now has a new goal as the last stretch of her senior year unfolds.
Break 100.
Perhaps that doesn’t seem like much to golfers who have left that milestone in their rearview mirror, but Taz Wilson isn’t like most golfers. Taz stands out just by standing at all on her unique prosthetic legs.
Taz was born without a tibia bone – the large shin bone that connects the ankle to the knee – in each leg, a condition called “bilateral tibial hemimelia.” It left her with severe clubbed feet and a predicted bleak future.
“They said she wouldn’t live to be 2 years old,” said her mother, Chirika Wilson. “She’s still here and about to be 18 years old and still going strong.”
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