No ordinary 16-year-old: Meet Preston's wheelchair BMX sensation Tomas Woods
Tomas Woods has never forgotten a metaphor that his old coach, Rob Seeley, used to describe his journey in wheelchair motocross. “Rob told me: ‘as an athlete, you spend years climbing stairs to get to the top, then when you do you can call an elevator to bring everyone else up with you'," he said. “That’s how it has become for me.
Now we can call the lift and hopefully bring other people up with us.” This exchange alone is proof that Woods is no ordinary 16-year-old.
That is before you consider that he runs a governing body, has a trick named after him, is a world champion and works on accessibility with the Governor of Texas.
Not everyone will reshape the landscape of a sport in this way, but the tie that binds it all is the pure elation that Woods gets from doing what he loves and that is a sensation that he is committed to sharing with as many people as possible.
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