Background
Wagner was born in Fullerton, California, and grew up in Walla Walla, Washington.
mathematician university professor computer scientist
Wagner was born in Fullerton, California, and grew up in Walla Walla, Washington.
Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1995. Master of Science in Computer science, University California, Berkeley, 1999. Doctor of Philosophy in Computer science, University California, Berkeley, 2000.
Paralyzed from the mid-chest down and with thirty percent function in his hands, he competes in the quadriplegic division of that sport. He plays by taping the tennis racket to his hand. He is currently ranked number one in the world in both singles and doubles.
He played basketball in high school and tennis in college.
He became a quadriplegic at age 21 while visiting a friend in Redondo Beach, California, during summer break. He and his friends were playing frisbee on the beach and Wagner began chasing after the frisbee through shallow water.
He attempted to jump over a wave, but the wave caught his feet, spun him around, and he landed head-first in the sand, leaving him paralyzed. He took a year off of college and began practicing table tennis as part of his rehabilitation.
In 1999, at age 25, he attended a wheelchair tennis training camp set up by Rick Draney, then the top-ranked quadriplegic tennis player in the world.
Wagner immediately loved the sport and by 2002 was the number one ranked United States. quadriplegic player. Also in 2007, he participated in the first quad competitions held at the United States. Open, winning doubles with Taylor and taking second in singles behind Peter Norfolk. Wagner had successfully urged the United States Tennis Association to include a quadriplegic division at the event.
The United States. Open was the first of the Grand Slam tournaments to do southern
As of January 2011, Wagner is ranked first in singles and doubles. Wagner worked as an elementary school teacher until 2004, when he began competing in tennis full-time.
From 2006 until 2014 he lived in Hillsboro, Oregon, and then moved to Chula Vista, California.
He is a member of the Election Assistance Commission"s Technical Guidelines Development Committee, tasked with assisting the EAC in drafting the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines. He is also a member of the ACCURATE project