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Cal Wheelchair Basketball Draws Able-Bodied Too |
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Written by Patricia Yollin - San Francisco Gate
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Thursday, 11 December 2008 |
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Article Source: San Francisco Gate
Written by - Patricia Yollin - December 4th, 2008
When Mickey Kay and Brittany Murlas of UC Berkeley decided to offer a
class in wheelchair basketball, they worried that only a few people
might show up. To their surprise, more than 30 students enrolled - and
most were not disabled. "I don't know of many places where people sign up to play a sport
where they strap themselves into a chair," said Kay, 24, whose spinal
cord was injured in a bicycle accident four years ago.
He and Murlas, 22, came up with the idea for the class after talking
about how adaptive physical education could play a bigger role at Cal -
historically a center of the disability rights movement.
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