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• Two great football coaches shared the same birthday, September 11, although 11 years apart. Paul “Bear” Bryant, longtime coach of the University of Alabama’s Crimson Tide, led his charges to six national championships during his 25 years at the post. Tom Landry guided his Dallas Cowboys to two Super Bowl victories and five NFC titles during his 29 seasons with the team. He holds the NFL record for the most consecutive winning seasons with 20, from 1966 to 1985.

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• As Waddell lay recuperating in the hospital, he made up his mind to continue skiing in some shape or form. Within two months of the accident, he was back again at Middlebury, enrolled in Spring Semester classes. Ten months after that, he was back on the hill, learning to mono-ski in a specially-built ski frame. • Waddell remained on the Middlebury ski team as he worked to perfect his abilities, and as a senior at the college, served as captain of the team. Two years after his first attempt at mono-skiing, he was named to the U.S. Disabled Ski Team. He first competed at the Paralympic Winter Games in 1992, winning two silver medals. In Lillehammer’s 1994 Paralympics, he collected all four golds. He continued his participation in these events up through 2002, garnering 12 total medals, becoming the most decorated skier in Paralympic history. In addition, he has nine World Champion medals. Along the way, as a way of helping other disabled athletes, he founded a camp for up-and-coming monoskiers. • As if all of Waddell’s triumphs in ski racing weren’t sufficient, he branched out into wheelchair racing and nabbed the World Championship in 1998 and a Paralympic gold medal. His greatest conquest, however, occurred in 2009, when the 42-year-old paraplegic climbed to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain, using the power of his own arms. He ascended the 19,340-foothigh (5,895-m) mountain in six and half days, wheeling himself up in a specially designed four-wheeled mountain bike, a 50-pound (22.7kg), 27-geared cycle that can scale foot-high boulders. The final 4,000 feet (1,219 m) were a vertical climb, during which he was secured to a winch and pedaled up a fixed rope. Waddell estimated that it took 528,000 revolutions of the cycle’s wheels to reach the summit. Speaking of his monumental feat, his words were, “My goal was to change the lives of the 600 million people in the world with physical disabilities. That day I felt like I rode on their power.”

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