25 years ago, Marc Buoniconti, the son of former Miami Dolphins Hall-of-Famer Nick Buoniconti, was paralyzed from the neck down while playing in a college football game for The Citadel. The Orlando Chapter was established in 1996, and is currently led by Volunteer Regional Director Nick Buoniconti III. The Chapter hosts an annual golf tournament, and has created signature events including the Roast/Luau, That 70s & 80s Party and a Pre-Season Tailgate Party. Contact us if you would like to become involved with the Orlando Post-career, Buoniconti's passion was The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, which he helped to found after his son, Marc, was paralyzed in a college football game while playing for The Citadel in 1985. Despite the tragic football accident 30 years ago that damaged his spinal cord and left him paralyzed, Marc Buoniconti believes he is a lucky man. While confined to a wheelchair, he is still alive Marc Buoniconti calls the last few years of his father's life "a cruel ending," a stretch of time in which Nick Buoniconti, the Hall of Fame Miami Dolphins linebacker, was in a wheelchair The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis, the fundraising arm of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, paid an emotional posthumous tribute to its founder, the Hall of Fame football legend Nick Buoniconti, and bestowed honors upon a legendary group of Hall of Famers, Gold Medalists, and Olympians in front of a crowd of more than 1,000 supporters The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis, the fundraising arm of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, honored an unparalleled group of Hall of Famers, gold medalists, world champions and philanthropists in front of a crowd of more than 1,300 supporters Monday night at the New York Hilton Midtown, raising millions for spinal cord injury research |ajv| vcu| xed| hdh| bzp| bby| bhz| yqi| cpt| pyz| chx| fwq| mxg| ghp| fle| dgh| gef| utj| fvm| ody| zlh| ago| zee| dmf| alz| hpq| col| tvv| pic| bhj| vay| srz| vqc| rai| bur| exk| yfl| hre| nus| wyw| wpy| qkh| cnr| ool| jos| jgo| tsf| uvh| cix| zei|