GUEST SPEAKER Sarah Reinertsen Link to website: http://www.alwaystri.net/homepagealwaystr.html When Sarah Reinertsen was just seven, her left leg was amputated above the knee because of a tissue defect she had at birth. It took her four years to learn how to run, but once she learned - and got the right kind of artificial leg - she was unstoppable. Although she is only in her early thirties, Sarah has already traveled all over the world, and has run in races in New Zealand, Europe, Cuba, and all over the United States. Doing the unexpected At the age of 11 Sarah began running track, largely because it was the one thing people didn't expect her to do. As a young girl with an artificial leg, going through her teen years was difficult. Yet she poured her heart into running and training every day after school, either on the track or lifting weights in the gym. At age 13, she first broke the 100m world record for female above-knee amputees and amazingly today she still holds the world record with a time of 17.99 seconds, along with the current world records for the 200m and 400m in her class. Sarah also became the youngest member of the U.S. Disabled Track Team and began to compete nationally and internationally.   
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