Amputee no longer has anything to hide

 
BY CORBIN HOSLER
Published: July 16, 2010

In high school, Katie Holloway pulled her long socks up to cover her prosthetic.

She didn't want the college basketball scouts to notice her disability.

"I didn't want anyone to know,” she said. "I wanted people to see me as an athlete first, not a disabled person.”

Some colleges stopped recruiting Holloway after finding out her right leg had been amputated at the ankle. Holloway wa...


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