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Friday, February 24,1989
Basketball fan overcomes
challenges in intramurals
Student referees games despite cerebral palsy
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By Juliette Ri
Photo by Ronnie Montgomery
Greg Moore, intramural sports official and junior political science
and economics major from South Carolina.
By Richard Tijerina
STAFF WRITER
Being an intramural basketball
referee is tough for Greg Moore. Al
though he is an avid fan of the sport,
he had problems learning all the
rules. Players often consider him
their enemy. It’s also hard moving
around on his crutches.
Moore has cerebral palsy.
Moore was born with the crip
pling disease, which is caused by a
lack of oxygen in the brain at birth.
This lack of oxygen results in the
ioss of motor skills. No cure is known
for cerebral palsy.
Although the disease is serious,
Moore said he was not inflicted as
badly as others. He had a speech im
pediment as a child, but eventually
corrected it. He has little strength in
his leg muscles, but doesn’t always
depend on his crutches to get
around.
Moore became an intramural ref
eree for the first time this semester.
He decided to officiate games be
cause he’s always liked basketball
and needed to be involved in some
thing.
Being a referee is hard work,
Moore said. Difficulties often arise
because his crutches restrict his
movement. He can’t move quickly or
always use his hands.
“I don’t use the full set of hand
signals most of the time,” he said.
“I’ll just make the call audible, then
use the hand signals when I come up
to the (scorer’s) table. It would just
slow down the game if I had to work
around my crutches and do the
hand signal. I have my variations of
hand signals.”
Even with his lack of leg strength,
Moore doesn’t always like to use his
crutches. He only uses them when
he has to travel for an extended
amount of time.
“I usually won’t use my crutches
when I’m inside the house,” he said.
“My power gives out when I have to
go long distances. I’ll walk with them
around campus, but take them off in
the rooms or when I go over to peo
ple’s houses. I hardly ever use them
when I’m home.”
Growing up with cerebral palsy
was difficult, Moore said. He even
tually accepted the fact he had the
disease, and underwent physical the
rapy to improve his motor skills.
“When you’re yOXmger, doctors
try to train other brain cells or other
parts of the brain to take over that
function,” Moore said. “They make
you go through a lot of physical the
rapy where you learn to do things
that strengthen your legs. I don’t
know how successful the therapy is.”
Moore underwent numerous op
erations to strengthen his leg mus
cles. He said that although the oper
ations helped, they were far from a
solution to the disease.
“I had a lot of different opera
tions while I was growing up,”
Moore said. “They were for differ
ent things — not necessarily to re
pair or cure the damage. I had sur
gery on my ankles, hamstrings and
other things like that. The opera
tions were corrective to give me
some more leg strength, but they
weren’t a cure.”
In high school, Moore said he
knew he couldn’t participate in his
favorite sports — football, baseball
and basketball. He said he needed
something to be involved in, and be
came involved in the only sport the
coaches would allow him to partici
pate — wrestling.
Although Moore said he wasn’t
the best wrestler on the team, he felt
good to be involved in something he
enjoyed. He said he wished he had
started wrestling earlier in his life.
“Wrestling requires a lot of balan
ce,” Moore said. “I wasn’t real good
at it. I just did it because it was one of
the few sports they would allow me
to play. Football was pretty much out
of the question. Wrestling is a more
individual-type sport.
“If I had started early enough, I
could have developed a lot of moves
that would have taken advantage of
strong upper body strength.”
His lack of lower body strength
prevented Moore from being a bet
ter wrestler.
“A lot of people would take ad
vantage of my lower body strength,”
he said. “Opponents would do all
kinds of moves to take my legs out. 1
could have developed earlier and
learned some defensive moves to
counter that. Wrestling was just
something to keep me involved in
something.”
“They usually react like they
would toward any other referee,” he
said. “There have been a couple of
people who have told me it’s great
that I can actually go out and do it.
Most of the time, it’s normal.”
Officials in the Intramural De
partment treat him the same as the
players he referees — fairly. He was
given no special opportunities be
cause of his handicap and had to
qualify for the position like everyone
else.
Moore didn’t consider becoming a
referee until this semester, but said
he would consider officiating in
other intramural sports because he
enjoys it and it's a good way to ketp
in shape.
Living with a handicap is some
thing that occasionally depresses
Moore, but he said it is somethinjk!
must accept. He said acceptingtk
disease is the first step to overcom
ingit.
“Every once in a while, you fee!
sorry for y ourself,” he said. “Ouisiii
of that, I just had to accept ii
worked out a lot when I wasyotuif
but when 1 got older I just had tun
cept it and work with it.
“If you’re going to feel sorry ft*
yourself all your lif e, you’re goingt
he wondering, ‘What if ,' allyourlift
I feel like that sometimes, butl»
sically I don’t let my handicap bother
me. You have to go out anddowhii’
ever you want. You have to tryari
not let it get to you If you can’tde
something, then that's life. Yon hr-
to go on."
Moore said it's important («
handicapped people to find soitf
thing they enjoy because interest'
keep a person going.
“You have to find something tin
you enjoy that makes it all worif
while to you,” he said. "If you Mil
hard enough and you really wanti
you can find your niche. You cat
expect unreasonable goals.
“Everyone has something tl* 1
have to deal with,” Moore.sad
“When you’re handicapped, you
reason is just a lot more obvious,!
you just show determination, you’ll
going to find something that you!;
to do. Everyone can find somethin'
they can do well — it just takestlw
a while to find it.
“Don’t give up because that'st! (
worst thing you can do. II yous 1
life has heat you then it basically^
because you’re not givinganyeft
anymore.”
Moore said players in the intra
mural games he referees treat him
no differently than other referees.
“I know some of the people who
work in the Intramural Depart
ment,” he said. “They seemed pretty
receptive to it, and they work me a
lot, so I guess they don’t have any
problem with me. I passed the writ
ten test and they’ve been evaluating
me just like anyone else.”
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