July 2024’s cover story for Birmingham Christian Family Magazine turns its focus on Paris. Cheryl Wray interviewed Zion’s family on his story, adoption, the fundamentals of wheelchair rugby, the move to Birmingham, and even more.
The results of that interview spread out over the center of the July edition in an article titled “Fierce and Faithful: Paralympian Zion Redington.”
Wray summarizes Zion’s story in this excerpt:
Fierce Athlete. Zion’s journey to the Paralympics Games in Paris, which take place August 28 through September 8, began with a mother who encouraged him to find a sport he loved. “Once he had his amputation, I wanted him to try out every adaptive sport,” Heather said. “He’s done everything from basketball to track and field, to air rifle and climbing.” He was just nine years old when he first tried wheelchair rugby and was soon competing as part of the Cumberland QuadCrushers recreational wheelchair rugby team in Nashville. That began a path of steps–participating in his first wheelchair rugby tournament, making the 2023 Team USA Training Squad, playing for Team USA at the International Wheelchair Rugby Cup, receiving an invitation to selection camp for the US Wheelchair Rugby Team, making Team USA’s travel team to the Musholm Cup in Denmark – that led to Zion being invited to try out and then make the team representing the United States at the Paralympic Games in Paris.
Birmingham Family Magazine
Read the entire article online here, or better yet, pick up your copy in the Birmingham area at local churches, Publix stores, Piggly Wiggly stores, and many businesses.
Extra
Lakeshore Foundation purchased an ad in the issue promoting the Celebration of Champions on Friday, July 26, 2024. Buy your ticket today. Click here.
