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One-Legged Cheerleader Makes Exclusive University of Arkansas Team
One-Legged Cheerleader Makes Exclusive University of Arkansas Team
One-Legged Cheerleader Makes Exclusive University of Arkansas Team
The gravity-defying tosses, spins and flips of college cheerleading are hard enough to do on two legs. Now imagine trying to do them on one. That's Patience Beard's reality, as the 18-year-old lost her left leg to an illness when she was a baby. But she's never let her lack of a limb hold her back, and this year she was one of only five freshmen to make the University of Arkansas cheerleading squa