MOTIVATION, INSPIRATION, GROWTH, IMPACT


UNBROKEN SPIRIT


Amputee Noelle Lambert is determined to return to the field


after a near-fatal moped accident BY MEGAN SCHNEIDER


When UMass-Lowell women’s lacrosse coach Carissa Medeiros


fi rst stepped foot in Boston Medical Center, her heart felt heavy. She didn’t know what to expect. She didn’t know how to react. Medeiros, who had received a devastating call from captain


Courtney Barrett, entered a hospital room where Noelle Lambert was resting after her fi rst surgery due to a moped accident July 30 on Martha’s Vineyard. It was Lambert’s fi rst time driving a moped. With teammate and roommate Kelly Moran riding on the back seat, Lambert lost control, veered left and hit the side of an oncoming dump truck at approximately 12:35 p.m. Bystanders were quick to react, calling 911 and making a makeshift tourniquet until emergency responders arrived. Moran suffered lacerations on her right leg, tore ligaments in her foot and ankle, sprained her knee and had some road rash on her arms and legs. Lambert’s left leg had to be amputated above the knee. “I got to talk to my mom on the scene and I told her, ‘I’m OK.’ I probably said I was sorry a hundred times,” Lambert said. “Lacrosse was one of the fi rst things I thought about, because I knew I lost my leg right on the scene.”


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