They Just Let Me Be Me

Mia Busk grew up in Alabama as the youngest of seven siblings, playing soccer, swimming, gymnastics, and more from an early age — almost always the only athlete with a limb difference on her teams. Born without her left arm, she found her way to amputee soccer at 18 through an unlikely chain of connections and is now a goalkeeper on the U.S. Women's Amputee Soccer team. She competed internationally with the team in Colombia, where the U.S. earned second place, and has since become an advocate for the sport, using social media to raise awareness and encouraging fellow amputees to give it a try. Off the field, Mia is pursuing a degree in Industrial Systems Engineering, with aspirations to start an amputee soccer team closer to her home in Birmingham.