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Vintage “TIME” Magazine Story: Blind Wrestlers

In New York last week 50 or so parents of students at two schools gathered to watch a series of nine matches between the schools’ wrestling teams. When the matches were over, and Philadelphia’s Overbrook School had won, 22-to-5, the…

Blindness Doesn’t Deter Spriggs’s Mat Vision

Flowers Wrestler Learns to Overcome Disability By Alan Goldenbach Washington Post Staff Writer Michael Spriggs grabbed on to a teammate’s shoulder and headed for the gymnasium wall, where William Ngakoue, a 215-pound junior on the C.H. Flowers High School wrestling…