When a rare disease put Eric Katz in a wheelchair, he found that the school of his dreams had little to offer student-athletes with disabilities.
Rutgers was synonymous with college for Katz, a high school track star who grew up in the '90s near the university's New Brunswick campus. He yearned to compete in Scarlet Knight crimson-and-black.
But for Katz, like so many other athletes with disabilities, there was a catch. Rutgers had no high-level intercollegiate teams for students like him. To find one, he had to leave the state, his friends and his family far behind and head to the University of Arizona.