Wakeup Call: Fla. woman loses leg in accident, still makes college soccer team

Oct 6, 2011, 9:00 AM EDT

Breanna McMahon, a sophomore at Brevard College in North Carolina, is back on the soccer field two years after losing her leg following an accident. While attending Freedom High in Orlando in 2009, she was working at a fundraising car wash when a car pinned her against a wall and crushed her legs. After several surgeries, doctors had to amputate one leg.

But McMahon worked hard in rehab, and recently was fitted with a prosthetic “running leg,” which enables her to move around rather deftly on the field. Now at Brevard College, she made the women’s soccer team and is training to be a goalkeeper.

Video here.

“I have to figure out and adjust my body movements to what I can do instead of what they can do,” said McMahon as she talked with Lauren Rowe via Skype.

McMahon is still training and has not hit the field to play a game, but she says she hopes to be ready for that soon.

McMahon told Rowe her coaches have to work hard to get her to slow down.

“I don’t want to stop, but my coach is like, ‘Bree you’re done for the day’ and I’m like, ‘Ugh,’ because I want to keep going,” said McMahon.

WKMG Orlando has been following the story from the beginning, and it’s pretty inspiring just to look at the progression of their past headlines on the McMahon saga:

October 3, 2009: Teams Help Injured High School Athlete
October 13, 2009: Injured Soccer Player In Good Spirits
October 30, 2009: Teen Who Lost Leg Out Of Hospital
November 3, 2009: Teen Who Lost Leg Attends Soccer Game
January 14, 2010: School Retires Inspiring Star’s Number
May 14, 2010: Soccer Star Adjusts To Life With 1 Leg

Looking forward to: “Soccer star returns to field in college game”

***
ABOUT LAST NIGHT

What you missed while viewing a squirrel and his nuts …