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New Personal Best - Jamie Nieto

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.