The benefit for the partners is that they get to go with other students. A lot of them had never been to a basketball game before. If they had, it was with their family, not their friends. It's a nice opportunity for the students to participate in activities outside of school with someone other than their family.

I think one of the things the buddies didn't expect was for them (the partners) to do as much as they can. People underestimate what they can do ... They don't have all the boundaries I think society puts on them. They can go as far as we can, they just have to take a different path to get there, I think.