. >> denise castelli wants to take back her life by force, swimming, biking, running, even making annce on a u.s. open court. radio host jeff dauler said he was tired of being the fat, funny guy. >> i realized one of the only thing that any of us can control in our lives is our bodies, what we put in them, how we take care of them. >> reporter: down 25 pounds now, jeff says he still has one major problem, fitting his big head, he says, into a swim cap. but he is doing great. carlos solis is among them. >> i want to be able to -- to show my students that if you have diabetes, or that if somebody in your family has diabetes, you can break that chain of ever getting it. >> reporter: now he is down 80 pounds and is off almost all of his diabetes medications, and launched a run club at his school. more than 100 students are taking part. rick morris is a web designer. >> after my career in the army, i started to smoke, i quit exercising. i don't want to die young from controllable circumstances. i want to live. >> reporter: he crushed his last cigarette on our show in february, and he has

open at all recently denise castelli is her name. have seen her as a ball girl running around the court picking up the balls. you can see right away obviously she has one leg. she had an amputation as part of an injury as a softball player but she is also one of our try athletes. we've talked about this before. we put an all call out about a year ago to get people who wanted to join us for the triathlon and picked several. she was one of them. just an incredibly inspiring story. we've been training now for sometime since january and in fact we were in hawaii together training and i sat down with her and asked her specifically about what happened. take a listen. >> denise, people see right away that you are missing below the knee on your right leg. >> yes. >> tell us what happened. >> in 2008 while i was a senior in college i was sliding into second base and i broke my leg. and from that day i just had an infection and there were problems with surgeries after that so i ended up an amputee. >> you were pretty young. >> yes i was. i was

we have denise castelli a 26-year-old who lost her leg to infection after it was broken a couple yearso used to serve in the u.s. military until he stepped on a land mine in afghanistan two years ago. both are proving that disabilities are something that can very much be overcome. of course we've got the paralympics going on at the moment, the athletes competing in london receiving the most amount of attention that paraians ever have. these two here are demonstrating you can really come back from these injuries. ryan mcintosh the guy that was in afghanistan and lost his leg has been talking to us about how he finds it being out here. he was really saying you know what? having been through what i've been through fighting in war this is nothing. >> kind of like a ball person. what is that? and so i went to a tryout and at the clinic they were like all right. can you throw a tennis ball? that's when i used the word, you know, i have thrown a hand grenade so i think i can handle a tennis ball. >> you've got to remain cool under fire when you're a ball girl or ball boy. remember you are ver