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Michigan To Allow Student Athlete With Down Syndrome To Play High School Sports

The Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) will adjust its age rules for student-athletes with disabilities, allowing Eric Dompierre, a 19-year-old student with Down syndrome who was at the center of a popular petition on Change.org, to play high school basketball and football during his senior year.

Youth Sports Hero of the Month: Reid Paswall (Somers, New York)

Varsity wrestler Reid Paswall had an idea. In November 2009, with the team's opening match only days away, he approached the Somers (NY) High School athletic director to suggest that the captains for the opener be two classmates who were not even team members. The two -- Adam Stein and Matthew Moriarty -- were special-needs students with Down syndrome. "I thought," Paswall  (in red singlet in photo) told the athletic director, "that we can have our special-needs kids go out and shake the other team's captain's hands, and . . . represent Somers."
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