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Morgan sports super fan continues to offer predictions

Dec 30, 2022 02:42PM ● By Alisha Copfer

MORGAN—Daniel Mudrow was born with cerebral palsy, but that isn’t what makes him unique. “Daniel is probably one of the biggest fans of Morgan High School sports,” said Wendy Knudsen, Mudrow’s sister. “His speech may have been limited, but not his spirit. He has risen far above any limitations with us working with him and mentors.”

The doctors and neurologists kept telling Mudrow’s family all of the things Mudrow wouldn’t be able to do growing up. According to Knudsen, these doctors said he would never be able to read and never be able to put more than two words together into a sentence. 

“Because it was hard for people to understand his speech, a lot of times he couldn’t communicate, or people would ignore him, and he would be frustrated,” said Knudsen. “It was when we made him a speech board that he started being able to point to pictures in this binder to share his thoughts.”

Knudsen explained that Mudrow has been fascinated with sports since high school. When Mudrow was in high school, he was in a program called Futures Through Training. Mudrow’s mentor was Kris Sommers. Sommers worked with him to help develop a program where they could broadcast the Morgan sports and games on the computer. 

“It hadn’t been done before on the computer for Morgan Sports,” said Knudsen. “That’s what got him excited about sports.”

Mudrow was also able to work with Doug Johnston, the previous owner of the Morgan County News. Johnston would have Mudrow write an article each week for the newspaper. Mudrow would need to research sporting events and their history for each article. 

Mudrow is now helping to record statistics for the Morgan Sports Network. Mudrow studies everything from players’ team colors to wins and losses each team has to height and player’s abilities; he also predicts wins and final scores for the Morgan teams.

“His predictions have been amazingly close for quite a while,” said Knudsen. “Like this year, he predicted that they would take state in football and was close in numbers for the final score.”

Mudrow puts in several hours each week in studying and researching each team. “He could probably tell people sports scores and wins and history from even before he was born,” said Knudsen.

While getting a comment from Mudrow is difficult, it’s easy to see from his face how much he loves these sports predictions. For 22 years, Mudrow has made predictions in the Morgan County News for Morgan High School Sports.

Mudrow’s newest prediction:

For the Eagle Holiday Shootout on Dec. 30, at 4 p.m. at Juan Diego High School, the prediction is that the Morgan boys basketball will beat the Timpanogos Timberwolves. “I think the score will be exact.” In the 2013-14 season, Morgan beat Timpanogos 66-51. Timpanogos has a 6-foot-11-inch kid on the team. Timpanogos will wear white uniforms with blue numbers and green lines with white shorts. “If you can’t make it to Wasatch Jan. 5 in Heber City, watch it on wasatchstingtv.com/girls-basketball.”

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