Career
He is featured in the 2009 documentary Warrior Champions about American soldiers who lost limbs or suffered paralysis in Iraq, and their way to the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. Clemons went to high school in Little Rock, Mississippi. He played football, basketball and baseball.
He played junior college football as a cornerback at East Mississippi Community College before he joined the army.
He was serving in the United States Army from 2001 to 2006. He was working as a combat medic in the 1st Cavalry Division.
Clemons lost his leg in Baghdad, Iraq on February 21, 2005, when he and other soldiers were helping a group of soldiers whose car had hit gravel and tipped over. As they were helping, a roadside bomb exploded, and wounded some and killed others
In the first years since this happened, Clemons has worn a bracelet with the name of three soldiers who lost their lives.
1st Lieutenant Jason Timmerman, Staff Sergeant David Day and Sergeant Jesse Lhotka.
Clemons attended a clinic held by United States. Paralympics at Brooke Army Medical Center in 2005, and then a Military Sports Camp, which was when he started track and field training.
He first started competing in power lifting, but chose to commit to track and field in 2007. He is the first Iraq war Veteran to have qualified for the United States. Paralympic team He tried to qualify for the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, but did not make the cut.
This is featured in the 2009 documentary Warrior Champions.
He is now focusing on the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. National championships.