Push the limits.

That’s the mantra of Ken Kunken, who in 1970 became a quadriplegic after suffering a devastating football injury while playing for Cornell University, where he had studied engineering.

At the time, Kunken saw his bright future dimming as he tried to overcome the physical restrictions that he would from that day forward navigate from a wheelchair. Answers about his future weren’t easy to come by. Love, a fulfilling career–none of that seemed possible to an increasingly depressed Kunken.