Hear dog lover, long time basket-baller, and recent Nolan's 14 finisher Hannes Gehring talk about spending the first 11 years of his life in Germany with his two siblings and missionary parents, the differences in education style he experienced there vs the United States before his family relocated to Lake Oswego, Oregon, his relationship with religion and how that has evolved over the years, his deep love of basketball and passion for tirelessly practicing the fundamentals in order to improve,  how his love of canines changed his life and lead to his current profession, Black Lives Matter and the social justice issues he's made an effort to educate himself on and dedicated his Nolan's 14 attempt to (carrying the name of a victim of police violence to each of the 14 peaks), and much more!

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