Jasmin Bambur, a former student at what is now MGA, recently competed in Alpine skiing at the Paralympic Games in Beijing.
A native of Serbia, Bambur enrolled at what is now Middle Georgia State University in Cochran in the late 1990s, after handball had become a somewhat surprising hit for the school as a club team sport. Bambur played center. The 1999 MGA team won the Southeast Conference championship, and Bambur also ended up playing for the U.S. national team. In 2000, while driving back to the Cochran Campus from Macon, he fell asleep at the wheel, hit a guard rail, and was ejected from the car. He suffered a complete spinal cord injury, which left him a paraplegic. Bambur went on to earn a degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, get married and, with his wife, start a business. He is a four-time Paralympian.
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