The former Providence and University of Florida basketball turned TV analyst was paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident last June near Nebraska. He’s been in rehab since the accident trying to overcome the odds stacked against him.
Young used to make students in the basketball gym at Providence stay on their feet during games. He helped deliver the Stallions and coach Jim Martin the program’s first state basketball championship in 2010 before he went on to a stellar four-year career at the University of Florida where he made it to three consecutive Elite Eight appearances and had a trip to the Final Four. Young played professionally overseas for six seasons before joining the SEC Network as a basketball analyst.
When Young was first told by doctors after the accident that his spinal injuries could lead him to be confined to a wheelchair for life, it was an emotional gut punch unlike anything he’d experienced. Young was in the one-car accident just days before he was going to marry his fiancee, Whitney Abbott. Life had different plans, Young said, and he had to make peace with it.
When Young was told following the accident of his new reality, the athlete in him emerged. On Thursday, he told the students that his goal is to be able to walk again. And Young drove home the point on just how important faith is in his journey. It’s the reason he’s able to smile and laugh and give hope to others in spite of his current condition.
Life since the accident has forced Young to analyze and reassess everything. And he’s done that with as much grace and humility as one could have when faced with having to rethink life. One of the main things Young had to accept was that he couldn’t do things by himself as he could in the past. For any able-bodied person, that’s a life-altering change. For an athlete, that’s even a greater challenge to accept.
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