Meet Brittni Mason - Para-Athlete

[Music] I was born on April 19th 1998 and I was born  with Erb's palsy which is a form of brachial   plexus in my left shoulder and arm. Because  of my disability my parents put me in sports   at a very young age and we found that track  and field was my best sport so I stuck with   that from the age of 10 until now. I have  been competing with para-athletics since   the age of 21 where I have now gone through  three World Championships and my first Paralympics   Games was in 2020 for Tokyo and I  am looking to qualify for my next games for Paris. I've had to overcome having a disability  pretty much my entire life. My parents never let   me use that as a clutch as to not being able  to do what I needed to do in my life but just   always having to overcome the adversity of  always having to work a lot harder than my   competitors and always just kind of going  through the physical therapy and the other   things I've had to do in order to get the  mobility and range of motion back in my arm. A lot of different things keep  me going. I would definitely have   to say my my family and my friends and  then also being a mentor to the younger   athletes that I've been mentoring for for a  couple of years. My goals are to continue to   push myself to my limits and I would like to  break my world record again and win gold in Paris. It has helped me a lot in terms of being  able to financially fund my sport and being able   to fully invest in myself to be able to give my  all so that I can compete at the highest level