More Than a Game: Unified Special Olympics Basketball Bridging Divides in Lee County Schools
December 12, 2018
By: Seth Soffian
Source: Fort Myers News-Press
The fans in the packed Cape Coral High gymnasium burst from their seats, roaring louder with each one-handed 3-pointer Luis Duran sank.
On the other side, Mariner’s David Tippins countered with his own 3-pointers. He and others were trying to keep the Tritons close as Cape Coral’s band and cheerleaders and fans on both sides thundered away during the raucous late-morning Special Olympics basketball game.
But Duran was too much.
The 17-year-old — who has epilepsy and who shoots only with his left hand after a major stroke suffered during heart surgery as a child left him unable to use his right arm — could not be stopped.