Josie Aslakson is a 25 year old paralympic wheelchair basketball player for Team USA.
Josie was born in Edina, a small city in the state of Minnesota. While born able-bodied, she sustained a complete spinal cord injury in a car accident at the age of 5. Despite receiving excellent hospital care, this meant she would be completely paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of her life and that she would never have any feeling in her legs again.
Fortunately, the accident didn’t cause any other medical issues and Josie grew up in excellent health. Obviously, growing up as a wheelchair user comes with some challenges from time to time, but while however she sometimes felt sorry that she couldn’t participate in everything her friends and classmates did, Josie always stood out with her extremely positive attitude!
At the age of 13, Josie was practicing at one of her archery lessons, and the basketball coach(who was training at the same time) pushed her to try basketball. The coach immediately spotted that Josie had quite some talent and encouraged her to give it a go.
In the beginning Josie played together with the ‘regular’ basketball team of Jordan High School, which she attended and contrary to what you might expect, she matched the level of her teammates very well and even turned out as one of the top players of the team!
After high school, Josie switched to the womens wheelchair basketball team of the the University of Texas at Arlington, the Lady Movin’ Mavs. This is where her talent fully blossomed and in 2014, she was selected for the World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Incheon, South Korea where she and her teammates finished second(after Australia). In 2018, she then played for Team USA in the World Championships in Hamburg, Germany, where she finished 6’th.
Now, Josie is preparing for her first ever Paralympic Games, which will start in a couple of weeks in Tokyo, Japan! Good luck Josie
If you’re interested, you can check out Josie’s Instagram page. I can also really recommend the great interview Josie recently had with Palms to Pines Parasports⬇️
Fresh Korean Useful Words and Phrases (1561 - 1570)
Fresh Korean Useful Words and Phrases (1561 – 1570)
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Fresh Korean Useful Words and Phrases (1551 - 1560)
Fresh Korean Useful Words and Phrases (1551 – 1560)
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Fresh Korean Useful Words and Phrases (1541 - 1550)
Fresh Korean Useful Words and Phrases (1541 – 1550)
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Fresh Korean Useful Words and Phrases (1531 - 1540)
Fresh Korean Useful Words and Phrases (1531 – 1540)
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Fresh Korean Useful Words and Phrases (1521 - 1530)
Fresh Korean Useful Words and Phrases (1521 – 1530)
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Fresh Korean Useful Words and Phrases (1511 - 1520)
Fresh Korean Useful Words and Phrases (1511 – 1520)
Hello once again for another slightly overdue recap of our recent social media posts. This recaps slight focus is on driving, sticks and gloves. Our new milestone target is 1600 which we’ll hopefully reach this coming Spring 2021. If you don’t already know we upload new phrases on to both our Facebook and Twitter pages a few times a week. We post a new useful words or phrases which we hope anyone…
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If you don’t already know we upload new phrases on to both our FacebookandTwitter pages a few times a week. We post a new useful words or phrases which we hope anyone studying Korean, living…
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If you don’t already know we upload new phrases on to both our FacebookandTwitter pages a few times a week. We post a new useful words or phrases which we hope…
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If you don’t already know we upload new phrases on to both our FacebookandTwitter pages a few times a week. We post a new useful words or phrases which we hope anyone…
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