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Moving around the multipurpose room. Schlappi told students at Windridge Elementary that when he was their age, he wasn't in a wheelchair. MI did lots of things with my legs, he said. That changed when Schlappi was 14. He and a friend were looking at his friend's dad's police gun. His friend thought he had taken all of the bullets out of the gun. Playing around, he aimed it at Schlappi and pulled the trigger. The bullet went through Schlappi's chest, narrowly missing his heart and hit his spinal chord. Schlappi had the children feel the bone in their backs, then he explained how the spinal chord is much like a telephone wire. It delivers messages from the brain to the legs to tell them to move. Since the bullet ripped the chord, he cant move his legs any more. Just because I cant feel my legs does that mean I still like pizza and the Utah Jazz? he asked. Of course, he said. Schlappi, who plays on the Wheelin Jazz, has participated in the past three Olympics and he and his teammates have earned medals. Schlappi and his wife and three children live in Sandy. He is the manager of disability services with Intermountain Health Care rehabilitation. As a motiva ' tional speaker, he visits between 30 and 40 schools a year. Schlappi admits that at first he was scared to be in a whcelchjir for the rest of his life. He wondered if his friends would still like him and if he could still play baseball and basketball or if he could get dressed by himself. I was slow at getting dressed but now I get dressed as fast as you can," he said. He related a humorous story that had the students laughing. Before his accident he loved to swim. One day his family went water skiing. AH three sisters and all three brothers were there. They all took turns water skiing. Then it was Schlappi's turn. He put on a life vest and fell into the water swimming with just his arms. He got onto a big yellow board lying in his belly. His dad drove the boat fast, about 40 mph. - Wastach Elementary School has named winners of the PTA Reflections CLEARFIELD contest, i B Arts ' I First grade: Jessica Munoz, first; Roberta Perry, second; Cameron Blair, third. Second grade: Bennie Meyer, first; Aimee Holloway, second; Carlos Munoz, third. Third grade: Tyler Furlong, first; Claire Riding, second; Bray-de- n Flinders, third. Fourth grade: Lara Douglass, first; Cadie Norris, second; Courtnie Pollard, third. . Fifth grade: Melissa Wixom, first; Carol Booth, second; Hope Thompson, third. Sixth grade: Joshua Furlong, ' first. Literature Brandy Vowles, third grade. "Even if this watch is broken it will still be right two limes a day," he said. s Two got to help him with his presentation during the first of two assemblies he gave. Taun Stewart and Austin Adams stood beside him. I tike Taun and Austin and wc just barely met. Schlappi said. I le took a gold Olympic medal, won in the Barcelona Olympics. from a pouch and placed it on Taun. The medal is gold on the outside and has braille on the back so blind athletes can read it. "Taun looks good in a gold medal, but I like him just as much without it, he said. He then took a bronze medal from the pouch and placed it on Austin. Nobody was supposed to beat us, he said of the wheelchair basketball competition in Water splashed hard and the Olympics six months ago. went up my nose. All of my famiBut they came in third place and received a bronze medal. ly was laughing and I wondered why, he recalled. Does third place mean I'm a Then he found out why. My loser? Try to win a gold but if skinny legs were flapping behind you win a bronze there should me, he said, and the boat had still be a smile on your face, he gone so fast it had pulled his said. swimming trunks all the way off. Schlappee let Taun try out an If you think you have a bad extra wheelchair he brought with hair day, try a bad bum day, he him. The youngster followed said. Schlappi as he moved among the students. Dont run over toes or Sometimes things happen that we need to call a toe truck, dont seem fair. I didnt want to he may joked. to shot lose he or get my pants, Taun dribbled the basketball said. to the side of the chair while He gave the students a saying Schlappi pushed the, chair. Taun that has helped him through was instructed to try to do a tough times: Do your very best, wheelie which is used to go up dont get depressed. curbs and across grass. When Find good in everything. Look Taun tried to pull back and push in the mirror each morning and forward the wheelchair fell over backwards. Schlappi was expect see five good things about you. Wasatch lists contest results . 6 Jazz team in 1 900. Schlappi speaks to about 40 schools a year, and was most recently at Windndge Elementary. Athlete: Make most of life ; 5-- 8 3-- Stephanie Cline, first, sixth grade; A.J. Powers, second, third grade. mentions, Even though we are having fun in wheelchairs, its good your legs work. Dont play with guns, wear seatbelts and alwayk go into the swimming pool feet first, he warned. The best thing you can do to be healthier is to like yourself. He showed the students and their teachers slides of when he was young, before he got shot and then slides of after he got shot, while in the hospital, when he got home and when he was in the Olympics. As a child he played baseball, went fishing and water skiing. When he got home from the hospital he went and shot a few baskets. He learned to go up and down stairs in a wheelchair. Students saw him skiing and scuba diving with his wheelchair in the ocean. He can go snowmobiling and even ride a bicycle peddling with his hands. 1 RecicveaHje i Windshield Glaze 126 No. Main. Layton Repels Rain, Snow, Sleet, Bugs, Crime with every new windshield replaced in March. 546-412- 5 $20.00 value Pictures showed how he and his basketball teammates enjoy having a good time and playing jokes on others. When getting on an airplane, disabled people go first. One of his friends likes to get into the overhead baggage compartment. Once he got up there and the coach closed the door. When a passenger opened into it it to put her carry-on- s Reggie scared her. Watch out for Reggie when you fly, Schlappi said. He presented the school with a poster of him sitting on a cliff. There were some clouds in the blue sky, but there was also sunshine. Always see the sunshine and not the clouds, he said. Ya? CHARLEY CHARLEYS: AM ' first grade: Milo Johnson, Sheree Rogers, Shondra Ekenstam, Dac-kor- y Dowdle, Cori Brisk, Brycn Lopez, Danny Leon, Kelly Zueck, Jerad Castaneda, Jessica White, Camille Bahe, Joe Hester, Wendy Holloway, Kiystal Gillespie, Jody MacCarthy, Gina Cummins. 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