“Put him in coach!” At the end of Cerritos College's bench was Kade Weston, a 20-year-old who is deaf and autistic. He was silently pleading to play in his first game. Coach Russ May let him play the final 2 minutes of a rout. But the story took a turn.
With barely a minute remaining in a blowout of Porterville College in mid-December, Cerritos College basketball coachSitting at the end of his bench was Kade West, a 20-year-old who is deaf and autistic. His hands were folded in prayer. He was silently pleading to play in his first game.
The CCCAA had dropped the hammer, Cerritos College had administered the blow, and what was once so beautiful became broken.“Yes, I broke a bylaw, but is this what our society has become?” he said. “Shouldn’t this be something we celebrate?”“It was such a beautiful moment, Coach May and the team saved Kade’s life, and then…how could that have happened?” she said.
He finally found stability during his high school years at the Learning Center for the Deaf in Framingham, Mass. However, when he returned home upon completing the program, his mother was dying and his options were limited.He found that escape in basketball, a sport he began playing as a 15-year-old. He loved it because it was a sport he could practice alone, a place he could be judged only by his effort.
“Kade worked harder than all of us,” said Jalen Shores, a sophomore point guard. “He would be there an hour before us, stay an hour after us. The love he has for basketball, he worked super hard, we were feeling for him.”He stayed on the fringes of the team the entire 2021-22 season and remained with them last summer when he made a decision.
The CCCAA and its Disability Appeals Board has a combined 12 working days to render a decision. When the team took its first road trip of the year to Visalia in mid-December, even though the Falcons had already played 10 games and the family had initially applied a month earlier, the waiver had not yet been granted.— Russ May, on his appeal to the CCCAA
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