Wheelchair basketball changes perspectives for UNC basketball players
Posted Mar 5, 2015
The disability subcommittee of Best Buddies — a group that supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities — organized a four-hour pickup wheelchair basketball game to raise awareness about disabilities on campus. The substitutes for the game included UNC basketball players Kennedy Meeks, Justin Jackson and Sasha Seymore.
(Daily Tar Heel)
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