Josh Turek reached success in wheelchair basketball through persistence after repeated setbacks. At Southwest Minnesota State University he played on a basketball scholarship and became a four-time All-American. Although he was cut from the U.S. national wheelchair basketball team in six straight years after 2005, he later made the team that won a bronze medal at the Paralympic Games in London in 2012. He also won gold medals with Team USA in Brazil in 2016 and Japan in 2021.
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