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Video: How an active Tennessee teen beat a tough stomach condition

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July 7, 2015

A diagnosis of ulcerative colitis during his junior year of high school threatened to stop Ryan Burcham’s future as a competitive collegiate swimmer before it could start

 

In 2012, Ryan Burcham was a junior at Knoxville’s Bearden High School and ranked nationally in the butterfly stroke. A devastating diagnosis of GI disease ulcerative colitis during his junior year of high school threatened to stop Burcham’s future as a competitive collegiate swimmer before it could start.

Learn how he not only returned to the pool but to a level of performance good enough to catch the scouts’ attention. Burcham currently swims for Western Kentucky University.

https://youtu.be/I41ZyZLJ8n4

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