{"id":344097,"date":"2023-11-04T21:19:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T22:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=344097"},"modified":"2023-11-04T23:00:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T23:00:24","slug":"special-needs-student-hits-half-court-shot-during-arizona-basketball-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=344097","title":{"rendered":"Special needs student hits half-court shot during Arizona basketball game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Liberty High School&#8217;s (Peoria, Ariz.) first intramural basketball game with its Unified Program ended with a scene-stealing, crowd-rushing, half-court shot from the hands of a special needs student that fell into the hoop and sent the gymnasium into a frenzy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Junior Tonatiuh Ramirez, who goes by &#8220;T,&#8221; made the shot from just past the half-court line in a crowd of defenders as the game came to an end. This game allows kids with disabilities and general education students to participate together in activities such as basketball, according to\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.12news.com\/article\/life\/heartwarming\/student-with-special-education-program-makes-incredible-half-court-shot\/75-960e33b8-be22-4f91-8f59-b3fd1e2b7af3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">12News<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The local station got a couple of angles of the shot, including this one below, posted to YouTube\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cHuhuO1KnT8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">shorts<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe title=\"Half-court shot at high school basketball game makes crowd go wild #shorts\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cHuhuO1KnT8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do the best shot ever,&#8221; Ramirez said in an interview with the outlet. &#8220;The crowd and everything, it was amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was a moment that T and the crowd will likely never forget, something teacher Jessi Wilks hoped to promote in her work with the Unified Program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of things you can&#8217;t teach in classrooms,&#8221; she said to 12News. &#8220;You can&#8217;t necessarily teach acceptance, you can&#8217;t teach inclusion all the time&#8211; but you teach through experiences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>T&#8217;s mother, Rocio Ramirez, told the outlet that he wants to be a professional basketball player when he grows up.<\/p>\n<p>If he keeps channeling his inner LaMelo Ball, or Damian Lillard, or Steph Curry, we may get to see him in more impressive moments.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>More<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/patrick-ngongba-commits-to-duke-adding-to-the-blue-devils-no-1-ranked-2024-class\">Patrick Ngongba commits to Duke, adding to the Blue Devils&#8217; No.1-ranked 2024 class<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/magic-johnson-remembers-the-late-bobby-knight-recruiting-him-in-high-school\">Magic Johnson remembers the late Bobby Knight recruiting him in high school<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>In a heartwarming moment, Liberty High School special needs student Junior Tonatiuh &#8220;T&#8221; Ramirez sank a half-court buzzer-beater during an (&#8230;)<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344099,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344097\/revisions\/344099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}