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Teen with MS becomes track star, wants to ‘keep running forever’

Kayla Montgomery, 18, is a high school track star at the top of her game, and dominates the competition despite a debilitating disease. She said even after her MS diagnosis she didn’t want people to think she was different, and wanted “to maintain as much normalcy in my life as I could so I kept running,” she told TODAY’s Erica Hill and Lester Holt.

Kayla Montgomery, 18, is a high school track star at the top of her game, and dominates the competition despite a debilitating disease. She said even after her MS diagnosis she didn’t want people to think she was different, and wanted “to maintain as much normalcy in my life as I could so I kept running,” she told TODAY’s Erica Hill and Lester Holt.