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By Heidi Voight, Feb. 24, 2022
Meg Moore has been defying the odds since the day she was born.
“My mom had a normal, healthy full-term pregnancy, and then my umbilical cord prolapsed during the delivery,” the 25-year-old from Middlebury explained. “I lost five minutes of oxygen, and I wasn't expected to live. They say I made a miraculous recovery.”
The loss of oxygen caused her cerebral palsy, which is why she relies on a wheelchair, walker and an assistive communication device. But it couldn’t touch her fighting spirit.
By all measures, Moore is an overachiever. She’s a para-athlete, running in 5Ks and relay triathlons using a specialized walker. She’s also a magna cum laude undergraduate and straight-A masters student at Fairfield University, a Gold Award-winning lifetime Girl Scout, and an internationally booked motivational speaker with an inspirational message of overcoming adversity.