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Waterboy with Down Syndrome Scores Touchdown

December 22, 2020 Antarctica Journal

A special-needs student scored a touchdown with his high school football team last month, after the team’s coach put him in for the final play of the game. Noah VanVooren, who has Down syndrome, usually acts as a manager for the Little Chute High School team in Wisconsin. But Little Chute and rival Clintonville invited him to take the field […]

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Student With Down Syndrome Voted Homecoming Queen

July 23, 2020 Antarctica Journal

Students at a Bolivar,Tenn., high school last week elected a classmate with Down syndrome to be homecoming queen. Kara Marcum, 19, easily beat three other candidates in a victory one teacher chalked up to her considerable personal charm. Kara also has a life-threatening heart defect, but both her family and classmates say she doesn’t let her disabilities get in the […]

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Waterboy with Down Syndrome Scores Touchdown

Student With Down Syndrome Voted Homecoming Queen