Not many people would be able to fight through what Seton Hall alumnus Peter Crimi has overcome in his life.
Crimi, now 31 and recently married, was born nine and a half weeks premature and was born with a mild form of cerebral palsy. Crimi has had 10 surgeries and the doctors only gave Crimi’s parents a 30 percent chance of him surviving his first 72 hours. Even if he did make it, the doctors said that he was not going to be able to walk or talk.
Despite a bleak prognosis that ended with doctors telling Crimi’s parents to find a home for him to live in if he survived and a rough childhood where Crimi openly admits that he was angry growing up, he did not let that get in the way of what he wanted to do with his life.