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ATS: Former UF Hoops Star, Author Patric Young Stays Positive Through Medical Ordeals
via Jacksonville.com (Jacksonville Florida Times-Union), by Gene Frenette (photos by Gene)
(Submitted by the Ponte Vedra Boy’s lacrosse team, as they were directly involved)
Excerpt:
Once 38 teenagers from the Ponte Vedra High lacrosse team assembled in the school’s media center Monday to listen to the man speaking from a wheelchair, there was no sign in their eyes or body language of wondering when this after-school session would be over.
Sharks’ coach Chris Polanski’s kids were attentive, focused, practically hanging on the speaker’s every word.
That’s because Patric Young has a voice, a smile and engaging presence that compels people to gravitate to him.
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It’s a skill he had long before a horrific one-vehicle accident on June 29, 2022 — while delivering farm equipment for an irrigation company on a rural Nebraska road — left the former University of Florida and Providence High basketball star paralyzed, changing the trajectory of his life forever.
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