{"id":16952,"date":"2011-12-13T03:38:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T08:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=16952"},"modified":"2011-12-13T04:28:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T09:28:48","slug":"tech-guard-luke-adams-can-hear-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2011\/12\/13\/tech-guard-luke-adams-can-hear-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech guard Luke Adams can hear you"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tech guard Luke Adams can hear you<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Mike Graham \/ Texas Tech Special Contributor<\/p>\n

Graham@RedRaiderSports.com<\/p>\n

December 8, 2011<\/p>\n

One of the best stories on the 2011-2012 Texas Tech men’s basketball team is
\nthe arrival of Luke Adams, a Big Spring, Texas, basketball star and Red
\nRaider walk-on.<\/p>\n

Adams is deaf save for an effective cochlear implant device and a hearing
\naid kept in tact by a sweat band on his head. And it’s never stopped Adams.<\/p>\n

A great story was published a year ago about Adams’ early-season
\nachievements by Evan Ren of the Abilene, Texas, Reporter-News. Adams went on
\nto win the District 5 3-A Most Valuable Player Award later that season.<\/p>\n

In the article, it’s mentioned doctors thought Adams would never get past a
\nsecond-grade reading level. Obviously, he did.<\/p>\n

Before the season started, Adams told me that sometimes his hearing aid will
\npop out with all the motion on the court and coaches at Big Spring would use
\nhand signs to tell him what play to run.<\/p>\n

Adams has had to overcome a lot in his life, but the freshman walk-on got a
\nreal taste of Division I basketball Tuesday at TCU when he played in the
\ncrucial final 11 minutes of a 75-69 Texas Tech loss that saw the Red Raiders
\nget within two points with less than half a minute to go.<\/p>\n

It was a performance that made you wonder why he’s a walk-on rather than a
\nscholarship athlete.<\/p>\n

When Adams was subbed into the game by head coach Billy Gillispie, TCU fans
\nheckled him not because he was deaf but because he has a haircut similar to
\npop star Justin Bieber’s hairdo.<\/p>\n

So reports came out making light of the fact that TCU fans were wasting
\nenergy in heckling a guy who couldn’t hear them. But Adams heard them fine
\nwrites Nick Kosmider of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.<\/p>\n

As Adams’ father, Howard college head basketball coach Mark Adams, told
\nKosmider, Luke Adams’ hearing impairment isn’t a sensitive subject — nor is
\nhaving Bieber hair.<\/p>\n

As Luke Adams has drawn more attention this week for his hairstyle, teammate
\nteasing has picked up.<\/p>\n

Luke Adams wouldn’t have it any other way.<\/p>\n

“I can count on one hand the times he’s ever felt like he was different,”
\nMark Adams told Kosmider. “He’s just a very strong-willed, confident young
\nman.”<\/p>\n

Source:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com\/archives\/2011\/12\/tech-guard-luke-adams-can-hear-you.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tech guard Luke Adams can hear you By Mike Graham \/ Texas Tech Special Contributor Graham@RedRaiderSports.com December 8, 2011 One of the best stories on the 2011-2012 Texas Tech men’s basketball team is the arrival of Luke Adams, a Big…<\/p>\n

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