TO THE CEREMONY AND HERE'S A NAME TO KEEP TRACK OF DURING THE PARIS PARALYMPICS TRACK AND FIELD START AS A ROUGH RACK. RUDABEH: AND CHRIS AVERY'S CAUGHT UP WITH THE LA NATIVE AND NEW ENTRANT BEFORE HIS FLIGHT TO FRANCE. >> PACKAGE WERE LIVING LATER THIS AFTERNOON FOR PARIS, THE FACT THAT THIS IS YOUR FIRST IN THE CAMPUS USC TROJAN, AND THE EMOTIONS AS WE GET TO HEAD TO PARIS AND THE FACT THAT YOU WILL BE A TROJAN THERE. >> ABSOLUTELY, VERY UNIQUE MOMENT IN MY LIFE ARE SHORT AND PREPARES I'VE DREAMT OF THIS MOMENT SINCE I WAS YOU KNOW 11 YEARS OLD AND EVERYTHING THAT I HAVE DONE MY LIFE IS LIVING TO THIS POINT. SO TO BE CLOSE TO BEING FINALLY HEADING OUT TO FRANCE TO GO AFTER A DREAM OF MIND THAT IS BEEN MY HEAD SINCE I WAS A YOUNG KID IS VERY EXCITING THAT, SUPERCOOLED HAVE SOME NEW BEGINNINGS HERE. I'M GETTING TO LEAD WILL I WILL GO SHOWER IN MY DORM AFTER THIS I'M GOING TO FLY OUT IS PRETTY EXCITING. REPORTER: SO SECRET THAT YOU MANIFEST THIS GAME. >> YOU HAVE THAT MINDSET TO BE SUCCESSFUL AND YOU DIDN'T EVERY STEP AND HOW HAS THAT MINDSET HELP YOU TO THIS POINT. >> I THINK DON'T STUMBLE APPLYING GREATNESS IN A YOU MUST LEAVE YOU ARE CAPABLE OF IT FIRST AND THEN PUBLISH IT AND DO NOT THINK YOU ACCIDENTALLY WALKING TO BECOMING THE PARALYMPIC CHAMPION IT WE HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE THE PARALYTIC ATTEMPT I'VE BEEN THAT WAY MY WHOLE LIFE AND THAT LITTLE KID I WEEKS OF THE CRAZIEST MOST AUDACIOUS MOST UNREALISTIC GOALS AND PURSUING IT WITH EVERYTHING I HAVE MAKE IT HAPPEN AND THEN PROVING EVERYBODY WRONG IF YOU LIKE THAT TYPE LITERALLY DID MY ENTIRE LIFE WHEN HE PARIS IS JUST ANOTHER STEP. >> IN JULY, AND THE PARALYMPIC TRIALS, HE BROKE HIS OWN WORLD RECORD HIGH JUMP IN HIS SUCCESS HAS HIM AS OF THE FAVORITE IN PARIS AND IT'S A SUBJECTIVE FAILURE IN TOKYO THREE YEARS AGO THAT SETTING MORE FIRE TO HIS MOTIVATION. >> THIS POINT PEOPLE TO ME ALL OF THE TIME YOU HAVE FIFTH AND YOU ARE 16 YEARS OLD HOW IS THAT A FAILURE I THINK YES BUT YOU KNOW YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHAT I WAS CAPABLE OF RIGHT AND IT WAS A FAILURE MY POTENTIAL THAT'S WHAT IT WAS. >> I'VE BEEN CRYING EVER SINCE TO CHANGE THAT SMACK YOU HAVE TO HAVE CONFIDENCE, THE REALLY ACHIEVE A GOAL AND SOMETIMES PEOPLE LIKE THAT WORD IS YOURS COME FROM. >> MY PARENTS INSTILLED IN ME FROM DAY ONE THAT I NEED TO BE UNBELIEVABLY CONFIDENT KNOW WHY ANYTHING MY CONFIDENCE ON THE TRACK AND SPECIFICALLY JUST COMES FROM MY PREPARATION MY CHILDHOOD MY UPBRINGING AND ALL ENCOMPASSING ALL OF THE THINGS THROUGHOUT MY LIFE AND THE HARDSHIPS THAT WINTER THAT MADE ME WHO I AM HAVE HELPED ME DEVELOP THE MENTAL FORTITUDE JOY EXHIBIT TODAY. >> SO YOU ENVISION GETTING A GOLD PUT HUNTER BACK IN THAT% ANTHEM PLAYING WHAT IS IF YOU