{"id":10065,"date":"2022-05-15T08:36:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T00:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spencerparkps.wa.edu.au\/?p=10065"},"modified":"2022-05-15T08:36:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T00:36:25","slug":"corycrombie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spencerparkps.wa.edu.au\/2024\/corycrombie\/","title":{"rendered":"Cory Crombie inspires SPPS students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10052 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/spencerparkps.wa.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FAF21536-9D52-409C-9DE4-057306FC59FC-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>The City of Albany proudly sponsored <strong><span style=\"color: #233e93;\">Cory Crombie, a para-athlete<\/span><\/strong> from Bunbury, to visit our school on Friday. Cory wasn\u2019t always in a wheelchair, growing up he was able bodied.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, he was an up and coming BMX star who was attempting a very difficult jump at the age of 14 when things went terribly wrong. He landed short on the jump and compressed his knees and flipped off his bike to land hard on his back \u2013 breaking 7 bones including his T12 vertebrate which punctured his spinal cord. It was a very slow recovery and he was told he would never walk again. <strong><span style=\"color: #233e93;\">Cory<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #233e93;\">set himself goals<\/span> <\/strong>and was determined to regain some mobility and he has managed to strengthen his legs to do minimal walking but he still spends most of his time in the wheelchair.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cory\u2019s competitiveness and love of sport lead him to try <span style=\"color: #233e93;\"><strong>wheelchair basketball<\/strong><\/span> and his ultimate love, <\/span><span style=\"color: #233e93;\"><b>wheelchair racing.<\/b><\/span> He competes at a national level in a variety of events ranging from 400m to the longest distance he has managed, an ultramarathon completing 62km.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cory has an upcoming event in Switzerland which he is very much looking forward to.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After sharing his story, Cory taught the kids how to use the wheelchairs and then join in a game of wheelchair basketball. 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