Canadian long jumper Noah Vucsics, seen above in 2023, is set to make his Paralympic debut on Saturday in Paris.
Noah Vucsics got into trouble for jumping over garbage cans in the halls of Calgary's James Fowler High School when he was in Grade 12. A happy offshoot of that clash with authority was the suggestion that he take his springs to the track and field team. Vucsics, now 24, will compete for Canada in men's T20 long jump in the Paralympic Games in Paris on Saturday.
"I'm kind of an unusual guy with an intellectual disability who loves the stage, loves public speaking, loves drama. So Grade 11, I worked hard to do a monologue and memorize my lines, like all the other regular students, and I got to be a lost boy in a Peter Pan production.James Fowler opened the valedictorian floor in 2018 to a broader spectrum of candidates than just those with the highest grades.
"I thought 'if I can pull this off and be the valedictorian, and he can see me doing a speech in front of 700, 800 people, hopefully that can inspire him to feel like he deserves to walk the stage."' "He just really feels that for one thing, people with disabilities are not given the opportunity to develop into who they can be."Calgarian Noah Vucsics set a new personal best, and Americas record, with a jump of 7.35-metres to claim silver in the men's T20 long jump event, at the World Para Athletics Championships in Paris.Carolyn and Robert Vucsics adopted Noah from Haiti when he was five months old. They could hardly keep their infant son in his Exersaucer.
"Dubai is expensive. I could only go once a year. I couldn't afford to go two times in the same year, six months apart.""I had seen him around. I noticed right away how much natural talent he had for the jumps. He's just light and bouncy and springy and everything a jumps coach is looking for," Kolodnicki said. "He always had a real natural takeoff.
Without peaking and at the end of a hard training block, Vucsics took bronze at the Parapan American Games in Santiago, Chile.
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