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Forgiveness, redemption and leadership define Team USA wheelchair curler Steve Emt
Steve Emt, an 11-time national champion and multi-time Paralympian, qualified with Laura Dwyer for the first Paralympic mixed doubles curling event.
- Team USA wheelchair curler Steve Emt qualified with Laura Dwyer for the first-ever Paralympic mixed doubles curling event and will compete in Italy.
- Following his recovery, Steve Emt said he was told he would never walk again at 5 years old after the crash where he passed out while driving, flipped his pickup, and was ejected, later waking from a two-week coma.
- Emt holds elite credentials as an 11-time national champion and two-time Paralympian, going on three, while working as a high school teacher, basketball coach, motivational speaker, and author.
- Emt frames his recovery around his life slogan `it's not what happens to you, it's what you decide to do with what happens` and urges, `We're gonna mess up, forgive yourself, accept what happened, and move on`.
- Standing 6-foot-5, Emt earned an appointment to the United States Military Academy before transferring to play basketball for the University of Connecticut Huskies.
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