Whether he knows it or not, 6-foot-5 Zane Daoud of San Marino High is going to be a role model for kids born deaf.<\/p>\n
He was one of them, 60% deaf since birth. He rebelled against wearing hearing aids. He\u2019d take them off constantly while growing up. By high school, he says he figured out how much they could help him and stopped worrying what people thought. He should be a top basketball player for Rio Hondo League favorite San Marino this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve accepted I have hearing loss,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen I was younger, I didn\u2019t really want to come to terms with it. I didn\u2019t want to wear my hearing aids all the time. I didn\u2019t want to use my accommodations. I denied I had it and acted like I could go through my life without my hearing aids. As I got older, I realized I can\u2019t hear without them..\u201d<\/p>\n
He\u2019s a straight-A student and discovered his parents were right.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy parents were always telling me, \u2018You need to wear them,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cI said I didn\u2019t need to wear them.\u201d<\/p>\n
In high school, he learned he could hear better talking to people and listening to his coach. Maturity and experiences have taught him how to succeed.<\/p>\n
This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email eric.sondheimer@latimes.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whether he knows it or not, 6-foot-5 Zane Daoud of San Marino High is going to be a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4690,34583,9576,34578,951,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,34580,7087,592,15214,6310,34581,9975,34582,34579],"class_list":["post-55665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-coach","tag-daily-look","tag-experience","tag-hearing-aid","tag-high-school","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-maturity","tag-parent","tag-people","tag-positive-happening","tag-prep-talk","tag-role-model","tag-san-marino","tag-top-basketball-player","tag-zane-daoud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}