New Personal Best - Jamie Nieto

This story originally appeared in Eastern Magazine Fall 2019

Written by Dick Anderson, a freelance writer based in Los Angeles.

It's been said that the average human touches their face 2,000 times a day.

"There are so many things that we do on a normal basis that we take for granted and we don't even realize," says Jamie Nieto (BBA99).

After a freak accident in 2016 left the two-time Olympic high jumper partially paralyzed from a spinal cord injury, "I had to have somebody scratch my face for me because I couldn't move my arms."

He also had to learn to eat again, starting off with pureed food and gradually working his way back to solid food. He had to learn how to breathe more effectively after…