It’s the most wonderful time of the year. The wrestling season is upon us (scholastically, in the USA). Soon, athletes from coast to coast will take the mats to test their mettle in the world’s oldest and greatest sport.
Wrestling is great for many reasons, including the opportunities it provides competitors with disabilities. In recent years we have seen amazing achievements from wrestlers who cannot hear, have one leg, have no legs and even who have no limbs at all.
If you were to hang around the sport long enough, you will even see a blind wrestlers. While blindness usually presents an insurmountable barrier to competitive success, there appears to be a young blind wrestler in Pennsylvania named Max Lamm who shows enormous promise.
According to Bleacher Report, Lamm excels despite his impaired vision.
Max Lamm is a 13-year-old wrestler from Mars, Pennsylvania with an incredible story. He lost his sight as a result of cancerous tumors that developed in both eyes when he was an infant. Despite being unable to see, Max finished last season with a 10-1 record, dominated his weight class in a regional summer tournament and managed to win his school’s Geography Bee.
Bleacher Report’s short and moving video below tells some of Lamm’s story.