Intensity, energy, discipline.
These are the attributes that military veterans add to the Movin’ Mavs wheelchair basketball programs.
“They embrace the suck,” said Doug Garner, Movin’ Mavs head coach. “They embrace getting in there and getting dirty and doing the hard work, and that really sets an example.”
For the 2018-19 season, senior Blake McMinn, junior Antoine Gray, sophomore Ray Hennagir and freshman Zach Blair make up the veterans on the Movin’ Mavs. Sophomore Rachel Wakefield is the solitary veteran on the Lady Movin’ Mavs.
Newcomers Wakefield, Blair and Hennagir all said the teams’ histories, prestige and level of play attracted them to UTA.