(Today) Chelsie Hill always imagined a career as a professional dancer — she just didn’t know she would be in a wheelchair once she got there.
At 17 years old, Hill was part of her high school dance team and had been dancing competitively for more than a decade. She was three months away from graduation in Pacific Grove, California when she got into a car accident with a group of friends, leaving Hill paralyzed from the belly button down.
In an instant, everything changed. Suddenly Hill, now 25, couldn’t move — let alone dance — like she used to.
