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Jason McElwain, nicknamed J-Mac (born October 20, 1988), is an American amateur athlete in basketball and marathon running, and a public speaker with high-functioning autism. In a 2006 high-school basketball game, he scored twenty points in the final few minutes of the contest, a feat which attracted international media attention.
Feb 15, 2016 · He'd just inserted his student manager in a basketball game -- an autistic kid named Jason McElwain who had never played JV or varsity -- with four minutes to play ... and the kid went off for 20...
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- Elizabeth Merrill, ESPN Senior Writer
Apr 14, 2009 · In it is an update on Jason McElwain, the autistic basketball player from Greece (N.Y.) Athena High School who captured the hearts from people across the nation by coming off the bench to...
McElwain, also known as “J-Mac,” is 20-years-old; he’s tall, about 6’1”; has blond hair and blue eyes, and "is the best basketball player to come out of Rochester since Johnny Wallace in 1993,”...
Feb 17, 2016 · On February 15, 2006, with four minutes left on the clock, the coach of Rochester, N.Y.’s Greece-Athena High School basketball team put McElwain, a 17-year-old student with autism who served as...
Apr 12, 2012 · McElwain, who has autism and was coming in to play his first-ever minutes of competitive high school basketball, scored six three-pointers and one two-pointer to end up with 20 points. The...
