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From the Archives – May 2003 – Wheeling for Respect
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Two years ago today, Canada defeated the United States by eight points in the Wheelchair Basketball World Championship for Women? Who cares, you say. While this author may have once shared a similar view and still does not follow the sport of wheelchair basketball religiously, I got a first-hand account of how hard these athletes work while writing a feature story on the highly accomplished University of Illinois’ women’s team five years ago for an undergraduate broadcast journalism class.