From the time Rob Besecker was a little boy, he was strong.
So he set out to see what he could do--and as he neared forty, he set his sights on the challenge of a lifetime: hiking to the base camp of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world..
He had always been strong, and he refused to let his ailing body limit his existence.
with each new health challenge, Rob was devastated--but not defeated.
Then, when he began to experience aches and fatigue that even his faulty heart couldn\'t account for, he discovered he had rare form of muscular dystrophy.
By twenty-nine, he had to be implanted with a defibrillator/pacemaker device.
Next, at twenty-six, he began to experience life-threatening heart issues.
First, Rob fractured his back, ending his college football career before it could even begin.
And then his body started to unravel--and everything changed.
Athletics became his world, and by his junior year, his mailbox was stuffed with scholarship offers from university football programs from across the US.
The youngest child in a dysfunctional family, he threw himself into sports at an early age--and found he excelled at them.
From the time Rob Besecker was a little boy, he was strong
