Marty Ewing | Full Send or No Send
October 18, 2019
The arrow strikes the coyote decoy above the kneebend of its hind leg. Barely a hit, the point only sinks in for the firmness of the target’s foam. Given a […]
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Narrates the Story of Injured Race Car Driver Josh Jackson | Drive and Dreams: Grassroots Racing in America
October 2, 2019
Celebrated dirt track race car driver Josh Jackson has triumphed beyond greater hardships than most people will ever know. After sustaining a near-fatal brain injury as the result of a […]
Shane Hultine | Taking the Plunge
September 20, 2019
Even before the end of his rehabilitation at QLI, Shane Hultine had a vision. “Nevermind it,” was his vision. Nevermind the spinal cord injury that had made his life so very […]
Garrett Sherley | How a QLI Boot Camp Sparked the Next Chapter of Lifelong Progress
September 3, 2019
Garrett Sherley is a different man now. He’s a different man than he was in 2014, when—just 21 and stationed in Georgia for his tenure in the United States Army—he […]
Jeremy Wolzen | Building a Better Self
August 15, 2019
In 2018, QLI launched GRIT, a one-of-a-kind adaptive functional fitness program. The program, led by CrossFit icons Stacie and Dustin Tovar and QLI’s director of nutritional services, Stephanie Roob, has […]
Father Glen Wilwerding | A Morning at Ragbrai, A Glimpse of Recovery
July 25, 2019
The rain falls in sheets. Big, heavy drops like coins coming straight down from a textureless overcast sky. They land with pelting force, slapping noisily off the cars and RVs […]
Craig Engel | The Pieces Together Again
July 12, 2019
Craig Engel begins each day at 3:00 a.m. In that quiet hour he works through a practiced morning routine. He double-checks the day’s date and the weather with an […]
Neuroplasticity: What it Takes to Become an Expert
May 6, 2019
The human brain has a unique superpower called neuroplasticity. All of us have skills we’d like to improve. Perhaps it’s something straightforward—a golf swing, a desire to learn the ukulele, […]
Back on the Track After Brain Injury – Race Car Driver Josh Jackson
May 6, 2019
Meet Josh Jackson. At 17, Josh was one of the top dirt track race car drivers in the country. No one could deny that he was a whirlwind of talent […]
Josh Jackson | Challenging a Brain Injury, and Winning
January 31, 2019
An hour ago, the New Mexico landscape was visible all the way to the horizon. Cracked earth, desert scrub. In the distance, the hazy silhouettes of great sandstone mountains cut […]