A moment seized motivates: YouTube basketball sensation to speak at autism fundraiser

Four minutes, 19 seconds is not a lot of time, but that is exactly how long Jason McElwain needed to prove that sometimes dreams do come true. Six years ago, McElwain — who has high-functioning autism — was a senior student manager for the Greece Athena boys basketball team in Greece, N.Y., a suburb of Rochester. He could be seen at every game wearing a white dress shirt and a black tie, patrolling the team’s bench dispensing cups of water and cheers to the players.

By: By Tom Mix, Forum Communications Co., The Jamestown Sun