Editor’s Note: This story is part II of the, “Colton Courage,” story published on The Champaign Room in March 2018.
Nine-year-old Colton Rahn was coming off one of the best moments of his life when he hit the game-winning shot of his youth basketball game on Feb. 10.
The bucket not only signified Colton’s first career points on the basketball court, but also everything he had to overcome to get to where he was on that day.
With cheers of the Illinois Football team behind him and Colton lifted onto the shoulders of his favorite players, it seemed that all the adversity he had faced with cerebral palsy no longer mattered.