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A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN WORDS Dwain Hebda IMAGES courtesy SHIFT.AR
In May 1985, Alma native Doug Moore suffered a motorcycle accident that left him a paraplegic. Not content to let one day define the rest of his life, Doug launched a local wheelchair basketball league
in
1986
and
competed
in
wheelchair sports for the next thirty-five years. But for as active a life as he’s led, one activity appeared to be out of reach for even this never-say-die competitor. “I have several friends involved in CrossFit and I actually went to a CrossFit gym five or six years ago and talked to the instructor,” says Doug, age sixty. “He just scratched his head and said, ‘I got nothing for ya.’ I left thinking, 'Maybe that’s not John McIntosh
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