About Jordan Thomison

Jordan Thomison is a 15-year-old, high school freshman, who enjoys basketball, football and hanging out with friends.

He's a typical teenager in all ways but one — he's an amputee.

Born with a congenital condition that prevented his leg from developing, Jordan has been working with Nascott — and the same prosthetist — since he was about nine months old.

"Charlie helps me out a lot, and makes sure that I have all the {prosthetic} equipment for any sport that I want to play," Jordan says of his long-time prosthetist Charlie Crone.

Jordan definitely keeps Charlie busy by playing football, basketball and mountain biking. And, this year, Jordan added rock climbing and BMX biking to his list of activities.

Thanks to a sponsorship by Nascott, Jordan traveled to Orlando, Florida to participate in the rock climbing and BMX events of the first ever O & P Extremity Games, an extreme amateur sporting competition for individuals living with limb loss or limb difference.

What attracted Jordan to participating in such demanding extreme sports?

"(I did it) just to prove to myself that I can do whatever I can set my mind to," he stated.

That he did. And, Jordan was pleased with his performance.

"Since I have the prosthesis, I feel like I have to do better than other people. It makes me push harder in everything I do — not just sports – in my grades," he continues.

And, it seems as though the Extremity Games are just the beginning for this young man.

"Right now I want to keep going with BMX, do something bigger than the Extremity Games. I want to start my own team. We might all have prosthetics. I want to start something where we're not counted out," he says.