IndyCar team owner Sam Schmidt walks for first time in 21 years, dances with daughter at wedding.
The following written content by Dana Hunsinger Benbow
INDIANAPOLIS — Savannah Boehrer is standing in her wedding gown, waiting. She’s been waiting for 21 years.
“Now for the father-daughter dance,” the DJ announces. The song starts playing: “Daddy Dance With Me.”
Since she was two years old, Boehrer has wanted that so badly. But her dad Sam Schmidt couldn’t dance. He couldn’t walk.
On this day in April, though, as the words “I know what you see when you look at me…as we walk down the aisle” play out, she sees something remarkable.
Schmidt walking toward her to dance.
Boehrer’s hand goes to her mouth. She starts crying. Everyone in the reception hall starts crying. There are cheers, gasps and wonder.
For the first time since 2000, when a crash paralyzed Schmidt from the neck down, he dances with his daughter — with the aid of an exoskeleton.
“I always dreamed this day would come,” said Boehrer. “So, for this one dance, it was incredible just to be his daughter, and for him just to be my dad. For us to get to have the daddy-daughter dance that every little girl dreams of. For me to actually look up at him, to hold his hands and just dance.” Read more from USA Today.
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