The gritty intensity that drives Erik Hightower when he goes for the gold during Paralympic wheelchair races is in sharp contrast to his persona in a casual setting.
Articulate, friendly and unassuming best describe the 23-year-old Glendale, Ariz., native off the track.
Hightower was born with spina bifida, a birth defect resulting in an incomplete closure of the spinal cord. Neither his parents nor an older brother, he said with a grin, cut him slack.
When he was 9, they introduced him to wheelchair racing. The boy didn
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