8th-Grader with 1 Arm Goes Behind the Back and Dunks on Fast Break in Game

Earlier this week, Trashaun Willis, a 6'3" eighth-grade basketball player in Iowa, captured an offensive rebound, burned a defender with a behind-the-back move and threw down a one-handed dunk.

It was an impressive play for any 14-year-old. But even more so for Willis.

Why? He doesn't have a left arm.

"One of the fibrous, string-like bands in his mother's amniotic fluid wrapped around his arm in the womb, stunting growth from just above the elbow, down," Matthew Bain wrote for the Iowa City Press-Citizen on Tuesday.

This wasn't the first time Willis rocked the rim (via MaxPreps):

Willis, Washington Middle School's leading scorer and rebounder, doesn't let anything hold him back.

"I'm used to getting looked at as, like, an underdog," he told Bain. "So it just makes me perform harder and do better and try to do better than everyone else."

[Twitter, h/t Irish Examiner]