Watson says WEA ‘worth the work’

Benjamin Russell then-freshman Zach Watson met wheelchair user Braden Jones at Outdoor Friends Forever and teamed up during the Wildcat Entrepreneur Academy program to design a hunting mount for wheelchairs. Although the company hasn’t yet launched, Watson and Jones are working out the kinks to make it happen with the help of OFF founder Jim Hardy.

“We wanted to design a mount using for hunting that attached to a wheelchair,” Watson said. “I thought it could be very helpful and used in other ways — something multifunctional.”