[Magdalen] Wrestling

[Jay Weigel]

One of Adam's wrestling teammates was born minus one leg below the knee and
only part of the other from the knee down, which was amputated when he was
very young. He wore prostheses, but wrestled on his stumps, which gave him
a really low center of gravity and an amazing advantage. He went to state
every year and did very well, wrestling at 112 lbs.

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Being spurred on to learn and improve after an apparent failure will
> get that kid far in life!
>
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Well, Jim, Ryan is a most determined kid. You may remember that he
> weighed 1-1/2 lbs. at birth and is legally blind and has mild cerebral
> palsy. Also extremely bright!
> > He's thrilled to have found a sport he likes, and one of the varsity
> players made a point of telling my daughter a couple of weeks ago how hard
> Ryan works during practice.
> > Last week, after I heard that he had lost all three matches, I asked if
> he was getting discouraged, my daughter said no--that, in fact, when he got
> home that night, he asked his dad if he could try a couple of moves (half
> of their garage is now occupied by a wrestling mat.). Apparently he took
> his dad down immediately!
> > At a meet last week he finally won a match, and Michelle said the whole
> place exploded in cheers!
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> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>