By Ros Dumlao

“Why are you stressed? Don’t be stressed. You’re at the Paralympic Games!”

I needed that reality check.

I was sitting at a Wi-Fi haven in the Athletes’ Village, typing a story under deadline. My co-worker was sitting across from me, talking, talking, talking.

I snapped back: “I know.”

But as much as I didn’t want to admit it, he was right.

Why was I acting like I didn’t want to be in Rio?

By Ryan Wilson

When Ros Dumlao was in Northside College Prep High School in Chicago, she watched as her school’s varsity women’s basketball team won the Public League’s Chicago Conference North title and made it to the state Regional Finals. But they did not make it into her school’s student newspaper, The Hoof Beat.