My Reflexes Weren't Up to Cat Standards

20/10/2025 Temporada 5 Episodio 240
My Reflexes Weren't Up to Cat Standards

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Shawn Meredith attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was a varsity athlete on their world-renowned wheelchair track team. He earned numerous national championships, national records, and four world records while at Illinois, and represented Team USA twice at the Paralympic Games in 1992 and 1996, winning a total of 5 gold and one silver medals. Shawn also played wheelchair rugby for the Fighting Illini, the first collegiate team to qualify for the National Championship tournament. He was a player and assistant coach for the Texas Stampede. This past July, Shawn was inducted into the National Adaptive Sports Hall of Fame.