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Softball doubleheader
raises more than $29,000 for
Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team
W country playing able-bodied teams in an effort to
When second-year Doctor of Physical Therapy student
increase awareness and education about the Wounded
Gunnar Fillerup and his fellow DPT classmates
Warriors, and display their ability to overcome any
finished playing the Wounded Warrior Amputee
obstacle.
Softball Team in a doubleheader fundraising softball
game on Oct. 4, 2014, they were overwhelmed with
admiration about how the war heroes are able to The Department of Physical Therapy Education
overcome difficulties and challenges. hosted WWAST at a minor-league baseball stadium
where the Inland Empire 66ers play baseball. More
“They have a great outlook on life, and they seize all than 550 people came out to support the cause.
opportunities that are available to them,” said
Fillerup, who was a player-coach for the first- and WWAST took both games from the two WesternU
second-year DPT students. “Their passion, teams. In the first game, first responders, donors and
DPT Class of 2015 students lost 24 -9. In the second
game, WWAST pulled out a 14-13 win over DPT Class
of 2016 and 2017 students.
Six-year-old Joshua “JJ” Miller, who has both legs
amputated above the knee, threw out the fist pitch.
Students from the PT program met JJ in 2011 at Camp
No Limits and have maintained a strong bond with
determination, and resiliency are something that I him and Challenged Athletes.
strive to reach. It was apparent that they don’t see
their amputations as an impairment, or as something Dee Schilling, PT, PhD, Chair, Department of Physical
that will hold them back.” Therapy Education, College of Allied Health
Professions, said this is the first collegiate PT program
DPT students, local first responders, and donors
played softball games against the WWAST at San to ever play WWAST.
Manuel Stadium in San Bernardino, California, “The reception the Wounded Warriors received was
helping raise more than $29,000 to benefit the team. tremendous,” Schilling said. “These are an amazing
group of men. The Wounded Warrior Amputee
WWAST is composed of veterans and active-duty
servicemen who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, Softball Team stated that they appreciated that we
and have lost a limb post-Sept. 11. They travel the honored and understood their role as war heroes.”
– Jeff Malet
WesternU View Fall/Winter 2014 5
raises more than $29,000 for
Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team
W country playing able-bodied teams in an effort to
When second-year Doctor of Physical Therapy student
increase awareness and education about the Wounded
Gunnar Fillerup and his fellow DPT classmates
Warriors, and display their ability to overcome any
finished playing the Wounded Warrior Amputee
obstacle.
Softball Team in a doubleheader fundraising softball
game on Oct. 4, 2014, they were overwhelmed with
admiration about how the war heroes are able to The Department of Physical Therapy Education
overcome difficulties and challenges. hosted WWAST at a minor-league baseball stadium
where the Inland Empire 66ers play baseball. More
“They have a great outlook on life, and they seize all than 550 people came out to support the cause.
opportunities that are available to them,” said
Fillerup, who was a player-coach for the first- and WWAST took both games from the two WesternU
second-year DPT students. “Their passion, teams. In the first game, first responders, donors and
DPT Class of 2015 students lost 24 -9. In the second
game, WWAST pulled out a 14-13 win over DPT Class
of 2016 and 2017 students.
Six-year-old Joshua “JJ” Miller, who has both legs
amputated above the knee, threw out the fist pitch.
Students from the PT program met JJ in 2011 at Camp
No Limits and have maintained a strong bond with
determination, and resiliency are something that I him and Challenged Athletes.
strive to reach. It was apparent that they don’t see
their amputations as an impairment, or as something Dee Schilling, PT, PhD, Chair, Department of Physical
that will hold them back.” Therapy Education, College of Allied Health
Professions, said this is the first collegiate PT program
DPT students, local first responders, and donors
played softball games against the WWAST at San to ever play WWAST.
Manuel Stadium in San Bernardino, California, “The reception the Wounded Warriors received was
helping raise more than $29,000 to benefit the team. tremendous,” Schilling said. “These are an amazing
group of men. The Wounded Warrior Amputee
WWAST is composed of veterans and active-duty
servicemen who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, Softball Team stated that they appreciated that we
and have lost a limb post-Sept. 11. They travel the honored and understood their role as war heroes.”
– Jeff Malet
WesternU View Fall/Winter 2014 5
