Wheeling toward success: Wallace Middle School athlete excels on the track

By Moses Leos III

Like many track and field athletes, Wallace Middle School eighth grader Melanie Peters aspires to succeed in every event she participates in. 

But unlike many of her able bodied peers, Peters, who suffers from spinabifida, has had to acquire all of her successes while confined to a wheelchair. Peters is a paraplegic and only has function of her upper body.