When Elena Delle Donne heard about Nike’s new shoes designed for people with disabilities and the college student behind them, she thought immediately about her sister, Lizzie.
Lizzie, who has cerebral palsy and is blind and deaf, is often one of the people that the Delle Donne cites for the reasons she does many things: She was thought to be part of the reason Delle Donne made her still-famous decision to leave top-ranked UConn after only a few days to return home and attend the University of Delaware her freshman year of college. And she’s given Delle Donne a different dimension to the world than many WNBA players.