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Head coach Ron Lykins has been the Mizzou Wheelchair Basketball coach since February of 2009. He got his start as an undergrad at the University of Kentucky in 1982 where he happened upon wheelchair basketball and has been involved since, coaching both the national women's and men's Paralympic teams and winning at the highest level on several occasions. Listen as he explains the impact of the sport on him and his greatest takeaway from all his experience with the sport. 

Ron Lykins:

© 2016 by Samanth Smith & Alexa Hodges 

"They’re good basketball players ,not wheelchair basketball players, they’re good basketball players. They happen to play in chairs."

Ron Lykins, Head Coach 

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