Every morning at 6:30 a.m., the University of Illinois wheelchair basketball team is practicing. They practice all year long to train for the national wheelchair basketball tournament in the spring. Despite being confined to wheelchairs, these young men and women accomplish extraordinary things—on and off the court. This is their story.

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