To me, what The Challenged Athletes Foundation does so well is to provide independence to people facing unbelievable challenges in their lives. I invited three amazing athletes to come in studio to talk about what they have had to overcome along the way. Roderick Sewell, Rudy Garcia-Tolson and Blake Leeper are three athletes with no legs…
After winning 37 XTERRA races in her hall of fame career, Jamie Whitmore was diagnosed with cancer in March of 2008. After surgery she was unable to run, so she reinvented herself as a para-cyclist and is now pushing hard to make it to the Paralympics in Rio in 2016. This is a story of a…
Scout Bassett is 4’9” tall and weighs all of 84 pounds. On a wall inside the Challenged Athletes Foundation headquarters, there is a classic photo of Scout back-to-back with NBA Hall of Famer Bill Walton, who is 6’11” tall. The quote next to the photo? “It’s not how big you are, it’s how big you play.” Scout…
Breakfast from Kona Interview: John Maclean John Maclean was paralyzed 26 years ago while training for a triathlon. 26 years later he is going back to that triathlon to hopefully finish the race as an able-bodied athlete. John Maclean is a living and breathing miracle! Since we spoke with John in Kona, he successfully completed…
Rudy Garcia-Tolson is a double above knee amputee who has won two gold and one silver medal in the Paralympics in the 200 IM. Blake Leeper, his roommate, has won a Bronze at 200 meters and a silver at 400 meters in the London Paralympics and is a double below knee amputee. The two were…