Paul Schulte (born 1979) is an American

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player.

Biography

Schulte was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. When he was 10 he got into a car crash and was paralyzed since then. At the age of 14, he participated in his first wheelchair basketball game and by 2002 received a degree in

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from the

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. After college, he became Dallas Mavericks' player and later became their coach. In 1995 he was an NWBA Junior Division Champion and in 1997 won a silver medal at Under 23 World Championship. In 1998, Schulte was awarded with a gold medal at the IWBF World Championship while in 2006 he became a silver medalist and later in 2010 got a bronze medal all of which were in the same place. A year later, he was awarded a gold medal at the

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and during the

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and

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he was awarded with some more bronze medals. He was also a four-time NWBA Champion in 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2009. Currently he is married to a woman named Meghan and has an eight-year-old son Brady. As of 2013 he was named

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s' MVP five times in a row.

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* * 1979 births Living people Basketball players from Ann Arbor, Michigan Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for the United States Paralympic bronze medalists for the United States Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball American men's wheelchair basketball players Wheelchair basketball players at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics UT Arlington Mavericks men's wheelchair basketball players 21st-century American people {{US-Paralympic-medalist-stub