Randy Snow
Randy Snow (May 24, 1959 – November 19, 2009) was the first Paralympic Games, Paralympian to be inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame and the first paralympian to win medals in three different sports: track, basketball and tennis.Cindy Shmerler"Overlooked No More: Randy Snow, Paralympic Champion of Wheelchair Tennis,"''The New York Times'', August 27, 2021. Biography Thomas Randall Snow was the oldest of four children of Alison Lee McElhone, a kindergarten teacher, and Thomas Snow, a real estate attorney. He was born in Austin, Texas and later his family moved to Terrell, Texas. In 1975, at the age of 16, his spine was crushed by a 1000-pound bale of hay, leaving him paraplegic, paralyzed from the waist down. After graduating, he enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin in 1977, where he indulged in the Fraternities and sororities, fraternity party life, until forming a wheelchair basketball team under the direction of Jim Hayes, the University of Texas at Arlington ...
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