Sammy Cavallaro is a 22 year old studying business administration in college. In 2001, Sammy was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2. This is a rare genetic disorder that weakens muscles due to the loss of motor neurons. Most kids diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy are not able to survive past the age of 2.
At the age of 7, Sammy started falling in love with football after watching it on Sundays with his dad. Since then Sammy has also started following hockey, basketball and soccer. It is now a tradition to watch football all day on Sundays with family and friends. Sammy considers watching sports his favourite thing to do.
In 2013, Sammy decided to turn his passion for sports into an Instagram account, @sickhighlights. Although he started this for fun, the account has now amassed over 2,000,000 followers.
Sammy took the popularity of his first account and started his company Sick Media. Sick Media now has over 10 accounts on different social media platform resulting in over 6,000,000 followers.
His most recent project is The Sick Podcast. Sammy is aiming to create one of the best and biggest sports podcast network fuelled by his love for sports.
Not only did Sammy define the odds in his personal life, but he has also created one of the strongest social media networks in the sports industry.