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Angelo Mongiovi : ウィキペディア英語版 | Angelo Mongiovi
Angelo Mongiovi (born June 29, 1952) is a former wheelchair track, basketball, and rugby competitor who was inducted into the United States Quad Rugby Association (USQRA) Hall of Fame in 2002.
== Background ==
Angelo Mongiovi was born in Newark, NJ, the first of six children. As a young child, he eagerly played in the streets with neighborhood children, but he contracted polio just months before Jonas Salk introduced the Polio vaccine. He was sent to a school for children with physical and mental handicaps until his family moved as he was entering sixth grade. Now in Clark, NJ, he was mainstreamed into the general education setting, where he thrived, quickly catching up to his peers. While in Clark, he also tried baseball and basketball for the first time. During his senior year of college, 1973, Mongiovi was working late on a school project and eating in the campus cafeteria when he was approached by Jimmy Marzanno, a double amputee, visiting NCE. Marzanno questioned him on whether or not he had ever heard of wheelchair sports and upon hearing that he never had invited Mongiovi to check out a wheelchair basketball practice at Montclair State University. So on October 5, 1973, Angelo Mongiovi, accompanied by his also-disabled friend Thomas McDonald, was first exposed to the world of wheelchair sports. After borrowing a wheelchair from another friend, the two traveled to Montclair and had their first experience of wheelchair sports. Both would later go on to achieve high honors in their sports of choice: Mongiovi in rugby, basketball and track,〔 and McDonald in weight lifting. At their first practice, Mongiovi was approached by Michael Lione, a player for the NJ Blue Devils Wheelchair Basketball Team (and former classmate at the Branch Brook School) and was invited to try out for the team.
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