WHEELCHAIR LACROSSE
HOW IT’S PLAYED • 8 players per team (2 attackmen, 3 midfielders, 2 defensemen and a goalie)
• 4 quarters, 15 minutes each, with stoppage on every whistle
• 40 seconds to clear after change of possession
• Stick length minimum 40 inches, maximum 50 inches (2 long sticks max per side)
• Goals are 6 feet wide and 4 feet tall
• Standard padding (some wear kneepads to protect from down checks)
used a wire in a distant cornfield to detonate a roadside bomb. Jacquet’s armored truck sank into the smoking crater caused by the 80-pound blast. “We were the smallest vehicle, so that’s why they picked ours,” Faiman said. The explosion went off directly under Jacquet. It buckled the
floor of the truck, a vehicle designed to withstand explosions, leaving a hole where his feet had been. Jacquet’s door blew off its hinges. A single bolt in one hinge held the front passenger door in place. Both rear doors were damaged. Three men were inside the vehicle when the bomb detonated. Jacquet’s turret gunner was incoherent. Faiman, meanwhile, suffered a traumatic brain injury and was unconscious for nearly 10 minutes. The impact from the blast slammed his mouth shut. He bit completely through his tongue and lost four teeth. But Jacquet was the worst off of the three. The explosion traveled through his body. Internally, he nearly was shattered from head to toe.
*** Jacquet hopscotched from hospital to hospital, each saying
it wasn’t capable of working on the severity of his injuries. They would stabilize him enough to relocate and send him to the next one. Eventually, he landed at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, where his mother met him. He underwent three surgeries that collectively lasted about 30 hours.
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• Personal fouls (i.e., slashing, tripping, etc.) result in 1- to 3-minute penalties
• Players “foul out” after 5 personal fouls, resulting in ejection
• Technical fouls (i.e., holding, interference, etc.) result in 30-second penalties
• Chair cannot be used as stationary object to impede progress or gain advantage
• Faceoffs administered like draws in women’s lacrosse, ball placed between sticks
• Wheelchair specs mirror standards of NWBA (wheelchair basketball)
WHERE IT’S PLAYED • Roller hockey rinks
• Wheelchair Lacrosse USA has programs in San Diego, Denver, Atlanta, New York, Richmond, Va., Tampa, Fla., Baltimore and Las Vegas. The organization hopes to expand to 20 cities by 2017.
The list of Jacquet’s injuries was extensive. Five vertebrae
had to be cemented together. His L3 vertebra suffered a severe burst fracture — meaning it essentially exploded and became dust. That specific vertebra was crushed so badly that slivers of it shot out and severed three of the six nerves at the base of his spine. These spinal nerves control bladder, bowel and lower limb function. To fix the L3, doctors bolted metal rods between L2 and L4. Jacquet’s pelvis snapped during the explosion. His jaw
was broken and wired shut. His tongue had to be stitched together. He had a severe closed brain injury, bleeding from his brainstem. He needed a tracheotomy to breathe. He also had a feeding tube and neck brace. Intravenous drugs put him in a medically induced coma. Then there was Jacquet’s left leg. An external fixator held
Adam’s broken tibia and fibula in place with pins that plunged into his leg. Both of his calves were slit and bandaged. His left foot was blackened and disfigured. “Pulverized,” Jacquet said. “Almost every bone in my left foot was broken. My heel was in five pieces alone.” When he was first admitted, Jacquet could not move his
lower body. He managed only to move one finger and blink his eyes. Doctors warned Ortiz that may be all she gets from her son for the rest of his life. “It just came back to having faith that it was going to be OK,” she said. On Oct. 14, 2011, six days after the explosion, Adam
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