Shannon Cotto, Lakewood's only deaf athlete

[Alex Belisle]

Shannon is 14, a freshman at Lakewood HS and their only deaf athlete. His interpreter Mary Foster tells me that her job can be challenging since there aren't signs for certain basketball terms but from what I observed, they both did very well transmitting the important info from his coach Dan Toole (freshman boys basketball team). When I spoke to some parents/fans in the stands, they only had good things to say about him. After first meeting him at football practice during the summer and watching him play basketball briefly, I decided, after getting a Facebook request pleading with me to take his picture, to shoot a whole game and the resulting photos proved to be quite worthy of the task.


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