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Wheelchair rugby gives vet new lease on life: (MILITARY TIMES)
August 05, 2009
The injury left Schuler, 27, a quadriplegic. The Army cook - a veteran of two tours in Iraq - has no use of his hands and triceps, but he can move his wrists a little. He uses a wheelchair. So he took up rugby, or, as the players call it, "murderball." Eleven months after he got out of the hospital, Schuler's team took the silver medal in the 2009 National Veterans Wheelchair Games. Quad rugby, for quadriplegics only, was one of 17 events at the games, held July 13-18 in Spokane, Wash. click here to view
