Scott Winkler

“I was put in this chair for a reason.  I want to inspire people not to give up.”

Scott Winkler became paralyzed from the chest down during his tour in Iraq. He battled depression, went through a divorce and thought he was destined to the life of another forgotten veteran. Then he was invited to participate in a sports clinic for wounded soldiers, where he threw the shot put for the first time.  A natural to say the least, within a year Scott broke the World record in Paralympic shot put, and his life was saved in the process. In 2008, he set out to become one of the first Iraq War Veterans in history to make the Paralympic Games in Beijing.