{"id":48775,"date":"2013-05-02T08:25:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T12:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=48775"},"modified":"2021-01-06T09:48:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T14:48:32","slug":"life-without-limits-is-graduates-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/life-without-limits-is-graduates-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Without Limits Is Graduate&#8217;s Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University of Central Florida senior Kyle Coon isn\u2019t your average 21-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>By the time he\u2019d graduated high school, he had already climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and trekked through Machu Picchu. At 14, he appeared on <em>Oprah.<\/em> After earning his diploma this week, he\u2019ll be focusing on developing a nonprofit to get kids active in the outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>Coon is ambitious, and his spirit is infectious, especially considering that at the age of 5, a hard-fought battle with Bilateral Sporadic Retinoblastoma, a rare form of eye cancer, cost him his left eye. By age 6, both eyes had to be removed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing blind, there are always obstacles, and I\u2019m forced to think creatively about getting around them,\u201d said Coon, an interpersonal-organizational communication major who will be among the more than 7,800 students graduating from UCF this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy parents have always treated me like a normal kid, and that\u2019s what I really needed. But nobody\u2019s omniscient. It\u2019s up to me to educate people about myself and my history. Flexible, open communication and honesty would help all of our lives go a lot smoother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a kid, Coon went through a time when he felt sorry for himself. Then he heard the story of Erik Weihenmayer, a world-class athlete who didn\u2019t let his blindness hinder his ambitions. Weihenmayer is the only blind person to have reached the summit of Mount Everest and the tallest peak on each continent, known as the Seven Summits.<\/p>\n<p>The two connected in Jacksonville&#8211; Coon\u2019s hometown\u2014 through a family friend, and the meeting set Coon forth on his athletic career.\u00a0 Coon even appeared as a surprise guest on Oprah Winfrey\u2019s show to read Weihenmayer a letter he wrote about Weihenmayer\u2019s invaluable inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe encouraged me that I could do absolutely anything I wanted to do,\u201d said Coon.<\/p>\n<p>Coon took up competitive rock climbing and then moved on to downhill skiing and long-distance backpacking. By high school, he had gotten into wrestling, and he competed as a varsity player all four years.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of high school, Coon had traveled around the world with Team Sight Unseen, a blind, visually-impaired and sighted mountaineering team he and his friends created after a 2006 expedition along the Ancascocha Trail into Machu Picchu led by Weihenmayer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTogether, we found the courage and inspiration to tell people you can break through any barrier if you\u2019re willing to put in the hard work,\u201d said Coon.<\/p>\n<p>When it came time for college, Coon considered a few other universities, but he chose UCF because he felt welcomed by the wrestling team and the UCF community. Since he has traveled so much, he said the transition to full-on college independence was a breeze. And Tyrone, his Seeing Eye dog, was a huge help in navigating campus.<\/p>\n<p>Coon was a member of UCF\u2019s wrestling team for about a year and a half before he left to focus on teaching fitness. He\u2019s been a spinning instructor at UCF\u2019s Recreation and Wellness Center ever since, where he\u2019s known for creating a vivid image of the outdoors and channeling a mountain bike ride during his classes.<\/p>\n<p>UCF Instructor Joan McCain first met Coon in \u201cPrinciples of Advertising,\u201d which she taught last summer. For the final assignment, students were asked to create a print ad that visually exemplifies who they are. For Coon, McCain adjusted the task to writing an elevator speech, a 30-second pitch about who he is and why others should support him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was grading assignments, and when I got to his, I honest to goodness screamed a little. At the end of his speech, Kyle wrote \u2018Cancer took my sight, blindness gave me vision, the mountains let me live,\u2019\u201d said McCain, who is now working with Coon on his memoir. \u201cAs a professor, the hardest thing for me to remember is that he is blind, because he makes it so easy to treat him like any other student I\u2019ve ever met. He comes across as a person who can do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by Coon\u2019s story and his enthusiasm for telling it, McCain assembled a group of advertising-public relations students to help Coon develop his public speaking career as part of a semester-long interdisciplinary study project. The students established a social media presence for Coon and assisted him with branding materials for Sight Unseen, Inc., a nonprofit organization he\u2019s creating to get people off the couch and into the outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>Coon will return to UCF this fall to pursue a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/online\/degree\/nonprofit-management\/\">graduate certificate in nonprofit management<\/a> to help him lead Sight Unseen, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s filed for 501(c)(3), or federally recognized nonprofit status, and he hopes to achieve that within the next year. From there, he wants to expose people to the clarity and self-awareness that the outdoors gave him.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Coon will continue to spin, climb, backpack and seek opportunities to tell his story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf my experience can help people realize their limitations are far fewer than they imagined, then I\u2019ll keep telling my story,\u201d Coon said. \u201cI want everyone to be able to live a life without limits.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"University of Central Florida senior Kyle Coon isn\u2019t your average 21-year-old. By the time he\u2019d graduated high school, he had already climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and trekked through Machu Picchu. At 14, he appeared on Oprah. After earning his diploma this week, he\u2019ll be focusing on developing a nonprofit to get kids active in the outdoors. 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