Deaf Athletes

The late Art Kruger left an imprint on much of the infrastructure of deaf sports in America (Kruger, 1997). He chaired the first national basketball tournament for the deaf in 1945, and founded the American Athletic Association of the Deaf. He pioneered the Deaf All-American selections in basketball and football in schools for the deaf and greatly expanded the role of the USA in the World Games for the Deaf. Kruger worked for fifty years as a sports writer and was working on a 15-volume encyclopedia of the deaf in sports right up until his death. Lacking the size or the talent to play football, basketball or baseball himself, he became involved with team management at a time when that meant scheduling, fund raising, purchasing equipment, hiring and firin

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der, and Tamara Foronda, a volleyball player (Athletes, 2006). Pollock is an exceptional athlete and won the silver medal at the 1999 Winter Deaflympics, and a bronze in the Giant Slalom four years later. Pollock is a member of the USA Snowboard Association. Foronda was elected USADSF Sportswoman of the Year. She was Volleyball Player of the Year in the Capital Athletics Conference at Gallaudet University and won a bronze medal with teammate Sarah Parker in women's beach volleyball at the 2005 Deaflympics. She was awarded the WIDEX Athlete of the 2005 Deaflympics for Fair Play and Sportsmanship. Foronda plans to graduate in the Spring of 2006 with a major in Deaf Education. Daryl Thomas, a Chicago special education teacher was selected to play on the USA basketball team in the 2005 Summer Deaflympics (Meyer, 2004). Thomas teaches alternative school inside the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center, a challenge in itself. Thomas was born with a hearing loss, and lost more of his hearing in college. In 1989, while playing in a college basketball game, he got elbowed in the head, damaging a nerve and taking away the hearing in his good ear. Another challenge he faces is that the players on the Deaflympics team have never
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