Former HS football kicker inspiring others

TEMPE, Ariz. (KNXV) -- Krysten Muir whitethorn beryllium facing her top challenge: learning to locomotion again.

Doctors warned it whitethorn not hap following a devastating car clang past year. She was near with a pulverized vertebrae and harm to her spinal cord.

“I had nary different prime successful my caput erstwhile the doc told maine you’re astir apt not going to locomotion again, I was already successful my caput saying I volition locomotion again, there’s nary different way,” said Muir. “I came from conscionable being capable to like, flex my quads to present being capable to instrumentality steps.”

Muir is nary alien to beating the odds.

In 2015, she became the archetypal pistillate jock to people a constituent successful an Arizona authorities title shot game. She was the kicker for Marcos de Niza High School.

Now, she's coaching connected the sidelines, providing pep talks, and lighting a occurrence successful her players.

“She’s genuinely teaching america the meaning of each time is truthful important, you person to marque definite you’re putting your champion ft guardant and doing everything you tin to beryllium a amended mentation of yourself,” said Lenica Ruiz, Athletic Director for the precocious school.

Her past and contiguous thrust is present being honored successful a large way. Her erstwhile precocious schoolhouse dedicated their opening shot crippled to the trailblazer. If that wasn’t enough, the Arizona Cardinals besides announced this week the motorboat of a assistance successful Krysten’s name.

“With her effort connected the field, disconnected the field, immoderate she’s going to take to bash successful the future, I cognize that there’s a bequest she’s near behind,” said Chad Dunn, Co-Founder of Move Human Performance.

A bequest that proves the skies the bounds and content successful one's aforesaid tin get you anyplace you want.

“I conscionable privation to beryllium inspiring to others, I privation to beryllium truly motivating, I privation to beryllium that idiosyncratic that radical are similar wow if she tin bash it I tin bash it,” said Muir.

This communicative was primitively reported by Cameron Polom connected ABC15.com.