Chelsie Hill was born March 28, 1992 and grew up in Pacific Grove California. She had an immediate passion for dancing from the time she started walking.
Her desire to dance lead her to her first dance team at the age of five. With her team, we was competing at the state and National levels where it was uncommon for her to leave without a trophy. Chelsie continued her passion for dance through middle school and high school, earning her a spot on the varsity high school dance team.
One evening, just a few months after taking first at regionals and three months away from graduation, Chelsie was out with her friends and got into a car with a friend who had been drinking . They hit a tree head on, which snapped her back in half, leaving her a T-10 Paraplegic at the age of seventeen. When she woke in the hospital, the reality of what had happened to her began the sink in. Her lifelong dream of being a professional dancer now seemed impossible. But as she healed, her “Never Give Up” attitude got her to redesign her goals.
She rolled out of the hospital fifty one days later as an eighteen year old on a mission. Her accident had been a major focus of local news stations and papers since it occurred. The doors began opening faster then she could keep up with as the community, local law enforcement, schools and many organizations began hearing her story and asking her to share it.
Since her accident she has been actively traveling around the United States speaking to teens. Among many topics, one she shares about is how the choices they make can affect them and those who they love for the rest of their lives. This has become her greatest mission in life. She has teamed up with her father and started the Walk and Roll Foundation, a non-profit that is dedicated to educating teens on distracted driving. The foundation also inspires through their wheelchair dance team and provides support to those living with spinal cord Injuries to help them recreate their dreams and live a fulfilled life. Chelsie teaches wheelchair dance classes in Los Angeles every week. For more info on her classes check out her social media. Instagram
Chelsie went on to be a cast member on Sundance Channel’s reality show “Push Girls”. She is a founder of one of the biggest wheelchair dance teams in the world.
With as much as she has already accomplished and done her journey has only just begun, check out any of her social media and take the journey with her