It is not uncommon to find stories of achievement linked to sports. Those (almost) impossible that cross the barriers of imagination and even the reality of those who draw them from the logic with which they wield the pencil. But nevertheless, athletes show us examples that, as the slogan of a clothing brand says, for them there are no impossible. As for Hansel Enmanuel Domínguez.
This is demonstrated by this 17-year-old Dominican who just received an invitation from a university in the United States to integrate their study plan and, in parallel, their basketball team in Division 1 of the NCAA, the famous Yankee university orange championship, where the future NBA.
Hansel Enmanuel Domínguez.
Hansel proves unbelievers that despite his physical handicap, he can overturn the ball and put a lid on it, and so much so that he has already stood out since the college stage. Last year he was recruited by the Life Christian Academy of Kissimmee (Florida), with which he won the Central Florida Christian Academy State championship, in which the 1.93-meter guard / guard he averaged 26 points, 11 rebounds and 7 assists. His outstanding performance generated the possibility of reaching the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) with the SOH Elite team, from South Florida.
“Don’t see me as someone special who has a disability. See me as a great player who is going to go as far as many ”.
Hansel Enmanuel Domínguez
The Dominican presents the missing left arm since a wall fell on top of him at age 6 and had to be amputated. That accident deprived him of playing his favorite sport, baseball, but it did not close the door of basketball, which he dedicated himself to and perfected, which is shown in the videos of him walking around the networks Domínguez asks not to be treated as to a strange being or to be taken as extraordinary – beyond what they are – his performances on the court. And he leans on his faith to retrace his path. “God has a purpose, always. I am living his mission, what he wants me to do in this life. Everything I do I do it with God first and for my family, they are everything, ”he told The Orlando Sentinel.
It was from that time that he had to endure two hours trapped by the rubble before his father rescued him that Hansel began to believe in a new life, helped by the one who had saved him, his example also by having been a basketball player. Papa Hansel Salvador Donato said about his son: “He himself found the love for basketball and began to give it his all.”
Enmanuel (that is his name, he appears in the networks that way) had the fortune of crossing with Moisés Michell, a former player of the Dominican national team, who along with his wife received him at home when he was awarded a scholarship to study in the named school of Kissimmee, near the Disney and Universal parks, which the boy knew from a photo after a 16-year life on the Caribbean island. “Some have doubted his ability to dominate the ball on the court, or think that the videos that run on social networks are faked. But when they see him live, they are left with their mouths open ”, Michell confessed about the complete player who can carry the ball, score with one arm and impose on the key as if it were a pivot.
Domínguez’s idols are Kevin Durant and LeBron James; they want to be like. It will be very difficult for him to achieve it, but no one doubts that he will try.