Perhaps we all can learn a lesson from Jim MacLaren. That is certainly the goal of the man who has had to fight his way back from not one, but two devastating accidents in his life.

At the age of 14, MacLaren found acceptance at Vermont Academy, an exclusive boarding school that eventually led him to an Ivy League education at Yale, where he not only excelled in his course studies, but also lacrosse and football. As an undergrad, MacLaren majored in theater studies while morphing into a 300-pound defensive end for the Bulldogs.