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for differently-abled people was limited, and she didn’t feel welcome in that world. But she went to the club, and continued going back., competing in shotput, javelin and discus, and an ambassador for Müller. The move from wheelchair lessons to throwing was a complicated one, she says. It started when a coach at the club, Steve, approached her.
“He said, ‘Ness, have you thought about being a thrower? You’re built for it!’,” she says, dropping her jaw to show me her reaction to this comment. “I wasn’t sure how I was supposed to feel about that. I felt like he was calling me hench, which I now know is a compliment but I didn’t relate to the word in that way at the time.
But she was doing what she refers to as her “year of yes – because I get bored easily, and wanted the challenge.” So she went off to Lee Valley, to meet the coach Steve had recommended. It was now 2014, and Wallace’s confidence had grown in her chair, but she had no intention of getting serious about sports. So when the coach, Dr. Allison O’Riordan, tweeted her to ask when she was going to go back to train, she was shocked.
I felt like he was calling me hench, which I now know is a compliment but I didn’t relate to the word in that way at the time
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