Sports

These past two weeks the Paralympics have been on television. It is not covered as well as the Olympics, but it is held at the same venue and location. The Paralympics have almost the same sporting events as the Olympics and is for athletes that have a disability. There are various categories of disabilities and depending on the severity of the disability the competition is grouped accordingly. It is amazing to watch some of the performances from these athletes as many are reaching times and goals that some non-disabled athletes would have a difficult time matching. Much of the performances that these athletes are able to achieve has to do with the advances in technology. For runners the invention of a “spring foot” has enabled them to run almost equivalent times. And for the athletes in wheelchairs the same is true. Wheelchairs for basketball are different from those for runners and meet the demands of their sport. After watching some of the wheelchair events, it made me recall the races we put on that had a wheelchair category for male and female competitors. Almost all the races that had a wheelchair category were held out at the River Ridge course. This was a good course for wheelchair competitors as it had very few sharp turns and was flat. There were two turn around points that had runners and wheel chairs go around an island and was a wide turn so not much speed was lost. We put plywood over the train tracks leading into the Wide Lite factory to help them at this one location.

A late game turnover doomed the Bobcats hopes of knocking off their second straight P4 opponent as Texas State fell to the Arizona State Sun Devils on national television 3128.

The first ever San Marcos Crosstown Showdown will take place tonight as the San Marcos Academy Bears will battle the San Marcos Hill Country Christian School Rams in six-man football action.