Here's an amazing story

This one is impossible to top for grit and determination:

Gunderson amputee Derek Norris 'like any other kid on team'
Dennis Knight
Mercury News
2/16/2010

Statistics — seven points, two rebounds and one assist this season — fail to tell the story of Gunderson junior Derek Norris.

Those numbers can't measure the heart of the 17-year-old basketball player, who had his right leg amputated above the knee at age 6...

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