Over decorated Paralympic career CUSF award winner saw confidence acceptance blossom

CHAMPAIGN — Nichole Millage noticed the knee-length socks Katie Holloway Bridge was wearing over her prosthetic leg when her new teammate walked into her first Team USA sitting volleyball camp in 2006. Just a year earlier, before she attended her first camp with the team, Millage might have been similarly dressed, hiding any evidence of her disability or her identity as an amputee. Already a leader on the team, Millage made it clear to Holloway Bridge that the only woman to ever play Division I basketball with a prosthetic leg didn’t need to hide her identity anymore. “I was like,…