February 14 - 17, 2013 Volume 98 Issue 96
EQUALITY SARAH SCHNEIDER The Weekender
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ut of eight people playing wheelchair basketball Tuesday night at the Student Recreation Center, only one actually needed the wheelchair. Mike Day, who uses a motorized wheelchair, started playing wheelchair basketball when he was an undergraduate to meet other people. The 2005 sports management alumnus said it is important to play the sport with able-bodied individuals. “It shows people that we can do whatever everybody else can,” Day said. “We just do it a BASKETBALL | 3 little bit differently or a little bit slower.”
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t shows people that we can do whatever everybody else can. We just do it a little bit differently or a little bit slower. — Mike Day Wheelchair basketball player
Torri Withrow, a junior from Wayne City studying therapeutic recreation passes a basketball to Kelly Ellis, a senior from Carbondale studying therapeutic recreation, Tuesday at the Recreation Center. “How can you not want to come play wheelchair basketball when you hear those two words put together?” Withrow said. “Plus, it’s a good experience. Where else are you going to get this besides college?” Wheelchair basketball is offered to all students at 5 p.m. Tuesdays at the Recreation Center.
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