2024 Adaptive CrossFit Games

Hey, I'm Stef...all my life I wanted to be on stage, I was going to be a dancer or an actress and no body was going to stop me. When I was 18, I was training at a prestigious dancing school and my body was becoming weak...thinking it was overtraining, I took a week off. These feelings of weakness continued and the more I worried about them the worse I got, I started to strap myself up with tape just to give myself more support in my classes, being allergic to the tape I would end up with welts all over me.

After years of testing and operations I was diagnosed with Congenital Myasthenia in 2008, I was pregnant with my 2nd child Cooper.

My body would be like a roller coaster, one minute I was fine and the next I could barely walk. I would limp a lot, my legs just didn't want to work. I remember crawling to the bathroom as my entire body just didn't have any strength. The scariest memory for me was taking my new born son Cooper to an appointment and not being able to walk across the road with him in my arms, I remember a stranger asking me if they could help and they carried him to the car.

In 2018 my daughter started at a new gymnastics facility and across the road was a CrossFit gym, a very good friend who had been there for years begged me to give it a go...no bloody way! I wouldn't be able to do anything.

Well I'm 5 years into my CrossFit journey and I'd say I owe them my life.

My disease is progressive and no body knows where I'll be next year or in 5 years and I know I've gone backwards BUT I also know I'm still doing things I never thought I would.

Going from Professional dancer to biggest supporter has been hard. It's been a long time since it's been about me. But with your help I'm going to the CrossFit Games...I wasn't going to go, but life is short...lets go!!!