Born in Richmond, Texas, Divine lived for the court and the dance floor - basketball’s intensity and dance’s freedom were her language. Then, at age 12, a bump turned into osteosarcoma. After brutal chemo, her left leg was amputated in April 2019, just weeks after her 13th birthday. She was declared cancer-free in September and took her first steps on a prosthetic that October.
Everything she loved felt out of reach. As the oldest of five, she relearned how to walk, lead, and live while starting high school in a body she barely recognized. Faith and fierce community kept her standing.
In 2022, at the Amputee Coalition Conference, she borrowed a running blade, and with the help of two-time Paralympic Gold Medalist, Ezra Frech, she sprinted for the first time. At that moment, Divine realized the game wasn’t over - it had just changed. By fall of 2023, with her own blade, she was hooked on para track, obstacle racing, and pushing limits again.
Now at Texas A&M as the Corps of Cadets’ first amputee, Divine is in the Hyper program to train with the best, absorb elite knowledge, and surround herself with driven adaptive athletes. She has her 2026 races locked in - 5K, 10K, 15K, mud dashes - and bigger dreams beyond.
