Growing up in Strasburg, Ohio – 2 hours from Ohio Stadium – Miranda Shay McCoy was an Ohio State Buckeyes fan along with the rest of her family. These days she roots for the Michigan State Spartans. How she made the transition is an inspirational story of courage and determination. McCoy was extremely active growing up – in addition to being a cheerleader, she also played basketball and softball. During her sophomore year in high school, she decided to focus on cheerleading and basketball. Since Strasburg is a small village with a population just over 2600, she was actually able to do both sports. It was basketball season during her junior year and McCoy was doing what she loved — “cheering for her boys” out on the basketball court. As seventeen year-old high school girls are wont to do, she had become friends with a boy who went to a different school in the same conference. There was a problem though – she didn’t get to watch him play because the nights he played, she cheered. As fate would have it though, there was one night mid-season that he played on a Friday night that her school’s basketball team didn’t. So, on December 28, 2007 – a night that would change her life forever – McCoy set off to go watch him play. As she drove down the road she had been on hundreds of times before, McCoy was content. Things were going great in her life. “I was doing well in school and I felt on top of the world,” McCoy said. …
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