Carl Hall gets Extreme Makeover Home Edition

Ocimnet - Former Wichita State baseball star Carl Hall’s story of tragedy and perseverance was featured on ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, not only that– a new home will be unveiled Sunday on ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.”

Carl Hall starred on some of the strongest Shocker baseball teams in school history and was the Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year in 1994. He was paralyzed from the neck down after a traffic crash in June. He, his wife and four children had to move out of their house in west Wichita because it wasn’t suitable for a wheelchair. It took Carl three hours to get ready each morning.

Now, with help from Bob Cook Homes, and innovative designers, Carl is able to do nearly everything on his own. The home features 250 voice activation controls, an elevator, a therapy room, movie theater, indoor sports room, and a batting cage that allows Carl to once again pitch to his own son.

“It’s really a neat place to be, and it makes everything so much easier on my family. All the other technology in the house, I still haven’t learned it all, and most of my family doesn’t even know half of it exists yet,” said Carl.

He added,“It’s truly amazing. It happened so fast, and everything went in fast motion, we still are taking it all in. The speed of it, though, was pretty overwhelming.”

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