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Three words perfectly sum up Bella Griffin's cross country experience on Friday - but it was a race to remember.
She took home Inverell's first ever multi-class trophy at the Gilgai Zone cross country event.
The kicker: it was her 12th birthday, too.
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"It's the best birthday present ever," she said.
"It was really great!"
She has dystonic cerebral palsy, a type of cerebral palsy that causes her muscles to involuntarily contract and move or get stuck in abnormal and painful positions.
This means that after her two-kilometre run, it will require hours of massages and physio to help her muscles recover.
But it's all worth it, she said.
While she's run in several cross country events, she's never taken home a win against her able-bodied peers.
After becoming eligible to compete in the multi-class category, that's now changed and her dream to win became a reality.
Hopefully paving the way for other students to do the same.
It's part of Inverell Public School's way of helping students with additional needs get classed, and have them included and involved in athletics.
Bella is now off to the North-West trials in Coolah on June 10.
If successful there, she will get to compete in State.
The six top-place getters will now be eligible to go to the North-West trials in Coolah on June 10.
If successful there, they earn the trip to state, held each year at Eastern Creek in Sydney.
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