Photo description: Wheelchair athletes in sports wheelchairs are on a basketball court during a match. One player's wheelchair has overturned and he is laying on his side while other athletes continue playing and a few look over at him.
Why do we do it? Why do people in wheelchairs play sports like quad rugby and knock each other over? Why do my wheelchair tennis friends go after balls so quickly that their chairs turn over, trapping them underneath?
Because we like it.
My coach has told me that our tennis program has a new player. This is very exciting news. I love it when a new player signs on and joins us. I particularly like it when it is someone who enjoys doing it. There are some people who try it out and play for awhile and stop and that's fine. Maybe they'd rather play recreationally instead of competitively. Or maybe they just don't enjoy doing it enough. That's okay too.
But for those who love playing sports, pictures like this don't surprise them. They don't sit and think about whether to go after that ball or make that play. They just do it because they are there. Because they can.
And that's a beautiful thing to know when you have people telling you all of the time what you can't do - that you can.
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