Calkins: The best young athlete in Memphis? Noah Schepman is an inspiration on wheels.
Noah Schepman is seen during his practice at the Germantown Municipal Park Tennis Courts Wednesday, April 29, 2026. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Geoff Calkins
Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.
He made his son a wheelchair.
A tiny wheelchair.
Noah Schepman had been born with spina bifida, a type of birth defect that occurs when the spinal cord does not develop properly.
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