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Jeromie Meyer S3E112
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Gold medal paralympian, Jeromie Meyer, shares how he adapted to life using a wheelchair after being paralyzed as a child by a drunk driver and, more than adapted, developed his athletic skills to earn the call to represent his country in wheelchair basketball, culminating in the exhilaration of wining gold at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
Iowa native Meyer is a member of the TeamUSA wheelchair basketball team that brought home gold from the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games as well as the 2022 USA gold-winning team at the world championships. Already athletic as a child, aged 9, Meyer was paralyzed from the waist down by a drunk driver incident. He turned to wheelchair basketball, often playing at the University of Nebraska - Omaha’s campus, where he later enrolled as a student. Meyer currently works in adaptive sports as a program coordinator and is earning his master’s degree in athletic administration at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
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