Darryl Rahn watches as teammate Lydell Otley hooks the ball
for an attempted two points during an intramural basketball
game.
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Disabled are able to play
Group sports basketball and blisters
By Mary Nell Westbrook
Staff Reporter__
Handicapped students at the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln don t
have to just sit at home, said Lydell
Otley, vice president of Lincoln’s
Handicapped Recreational Services.
“We don’t want to be home bod
ies,” Otley said. .
The informal group of disabled
people who make up HRS play bas
ketball, tennis, softball, pool, bowl
ing and other sports despite their
handicaps.
“You have to learn to play a sport
all over again,” Otley said.
Although no UNL students are
currently members, Otley said, he
would welcome the additional mem
bers to boost the club’s declining
membership.
The group, which was originally
geared toward competitive team
sports, had about 320 members at its
peak, he said. Now only 20 members
remain, he said.
The club began about 1975. It has
since turned its emphasis to recrea
tional sports.
But this change has not lessened
the physical demands of participants,
he said. , .
It takes about a year for a handi
capped people to get their hands bro
ken in from pushing the wheels ot the
chair so fast, he said.
“You get some serious blisters at
first,” he said.
Playing basketball from a wheel
chair is harder than playing on foot.
HRS proved this when it invited
Nebraska football alumni to play
wheelchair basketball against its
team. . .
Athletes such as I.M. Hipp. Jarvis
Redwine and Junior Miller lost to
HRS in the exhibition game.
we preuy mucn waxea tnem,”
Otley said.
The HRS team even gave the
Husker alumni 25 points to start, he
said.
A sport has special rules for the
handicapped people playing. In ten
nis, the ball is allowed one extra
bounce. In basketball a person gets
two pushes of the wheelchair wheels
for every dribble.
Nancy Garrett, HRS president, is
the only woman in the group now. She
said she felt like “the new kid on the
block.”
“I went in cold turkey, not know
ing anyone,” she said. “It’s a lot of
fun.”
Some handicapped people “get on
a self-pity routine,” Garrett said.
“They feel like it’s a dead-end street.”
Otley said the Lincoln Wheclv
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Lydell “Oats” Otley follows through on a backhand during tennis doubles warmups.
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