Murderball

Mark Zupan is the paralympic rugby athlete featured in the film Murderball, and a civil engineer from Austin, Texas. He has captured 4 Most Valuable Player awards and was just recently named US Quad Rugby Associations Athlete of the Year. He received his engineering education at Georgia Tech where he first suited up and wheeled onto a rugby court. No stranger to athletic spots, Zupan quickly took to the game's hard-hitting action and relocated to Austin, Texas, where he became one of the most feared players on the #2-ranked Stampede USA Paralympic Team. In 2004 he was a starter for Team USA at the Paralympics in Athens, Greece, where he led the team to a Bronze medal. He continues to compete and train, preparing for the 2008 summer Olympic games in Beijing.