Always an Athlete
Kim Kozelichki has lived with multiple sclerosis for 26 years. She participated in a half marathon on May 1, 2022. Months prior to the race, Renee Stewart, Kim’s nurse practitioner of four years, proposed that Renee and Kim’s care team push Kim in an adaptive jogging wheelchair in the Lincoln Half Marathon in Lincoln, Nebraska. Kim was game. Kim is a former Division II college tennis player and despite her diagnosis has continued to stay active and exercise. “I’m an athlete,” Kim said, “and I’m always going to be considered an athlete.”
(For the Omaha World-Herald. With reporting from Bennet Goldstein.)
