Bøker av Lew Shaver

Explore true stories about college sports and ways coaching can change lives from a retired professional whose inspiring decades-long career proves victory is more than what's on the scoreboard.With no prior experience in wheelchair sports, Coach Lew Shaver embarked on a remarkable fifty-year journey in school athletics that included working with students who beat challenges and rose to the top of their games under his guidance. His reflections showcase how making your disability work for you leads to big opportunities. He also covers the ways his job transformed him and highlights how when you build relationships with people different from you, life is better.As the founder of a wheelchair basketball program at a rural Minnesota college, Shaver's experience exemplifies why seizing your path with courage and openness produces the biggest wins.From the First Brick is a heartwarming read for all sports lovers and those committed to learning more about overcoming adversity and harnessing resilience-no matter what.

I was sitting in a small upstairs room attempting to write this narrative of my education in disability awareness. For over 30 years I have been involved in working with individuals with disabilities as a coach and administrator on the intercollegiate, national and international levels. When I started this journey, at a small, Midwestern University, I had no idea of what I was getting myself into. Now that I have traveled this educational path I have come to realize that it may have been one of the most important learning experiences of my life, an experience I feel needs to be shared.In putting this narrative together, one very real issue I struggled with was how to deal with the present climate of political correctness. My decision was to tell the stories as I remember them, in the language as I remember. To do differently would change and compromise the actual experience. Thus, this is a sharing of feelings and experiences that a coach and his athletes spent in timeless hours in a gym practicing and competing, of thousands of miles traveled throughout the United States and beyond, and days and nights spent together in laughter and frustration.