World Wheelchair Sports
World Wheelchair Sports has been providing competitive wheelchair sport opportunities and recreation
World Wheelchair Sports is founded, organized and run by people with disabilities. Many of our members are young people who were active in sports and athletics before a traumatic injury made using a wheelchair a necessity. Others were born with disabling conditions or are older persons who have suffered from a stroke, amputation or arthritis. Whatever the nature of their physical challenge, they d
Wheelchair racers are on 🔥 tonight!
romanchuk is our third wheelchair racing medalist of the night, taking bronze in the men’s 400m T54!
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What a moment for 🫶
In his fourth Paralympic Games, he has his first medal, taking 🥉 in the 400m T53!
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Two for two 🥉
earns her second medal in as many days, taking bronze in the women’s 800m T54!
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Went the distance 🥇
romanchuk WINS the men’s 5000m T54 competition for our second gold medal tonight!
Speeding to silver! 🇺🇸
Susannah Scaroni earns the 🥈 in the women’s 5000m T54!
Two of the greatest of all time will serve as our team captains in Paris 🫡
Our team voted Tatyana McFadden and Roderick Townsend team captains for the !
Paris isn’t ready for this squad 😤
Team USA officially announced the 220-member team for the today, including our 55 track and field athletes!
http://TeamUSA.com/Roster
Congratulations to those who made the team for Paris!
If you have Peacock, be sure to watch the US Paralympic Track and Field Trials starting this Thursday, July 18th!
Wednesday morning in Eugene, Loren Cushing is organizing a community push as described below!
"Hello all, the glow of the Olympic Track and Field Trials is in the air! Such amazing athletes!
We'll be gathering at the Hilyard Center at 1030 for a wheel on the paved Amazon Trail. Followed by a showing of the circa 1994 Push to Bobby Lake."
(Photo also from Loren Cushing)
Tomorrow the women's have their turn at Hayward for the first time in NCAA history!
This Saturday, June 1st, we'll be hosting our last track meet up of the season in cooperation with Adaptive Sports NW. To wrap things up, we will be putting on a lowkey mini-meet at Centennial High School in Gresham, Oregon from 10am to 12pm!
If you have a physical disability, are in the region, and are interested in trying out some races or throwing in a low pressure environment, please reach out to us here, Zach Abbott, or ASNW and someone can send you the signup link!
Yesterday's results! Congratulations to Troy Davis on his wins in both events, and a special shoutout to Oregon High School State Champion Elizabeth Keen on an almost 20 second personal best in her 400m!
Tomorrow morning, wheelchair racers are back at the Pre Classic!
The field for both races will include:
Elizabeth Keen
Kayla Wopschall
Finley Parker
Zach Abbott (WWS Alumni and Paralympian)
Troy Davis (Paralympian)
JD Duran
Agnarr Wyatt
Para athletes, coming back to Hayward and the Prefontaine Classic for the first time since 1995.
Southern Oregon! Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 27th, from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm 📅 and get ready to reel in some fun at Junction City Pond (92910 State Hwy 99 N, Junction City, OR 97448) for OSCI's Adaptive Fishing Event 🎣
Our adaptive fishing event is designed to cater to anglers of all skill levels and abilities. Plus, the best part? It's completely FREE of charge! 🙌 Just make sure to do us a solid and sign up ahead of time so we know how many folks to expect 🤘
tinyurl.com/2024fishing
and if you have questions please feel free to reach out to Matt at [email protected]
Otherwise we can't wait to be in community and out on the water with y'all REEL soon!
Wheelchair races at the Oregon Relays this Friday and Saturday.
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AccessMets – AccesSurf Hawaii Nonprofit While many sports and activities, such as walking, running, or lifting, have established their metabolic equivalents (METs), outrigger canoe paddling has yet to be measured for METs energy expenditure. You may already know that when you engage in paddling you create energy expenditure. However, esta...
Join us in partnership with the Eugene Family YMCA for our first Adaptive Sports Sampler at the new Y building!
Wed., March 27 from 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Youth & adults with physical disabilities as well as people interested in adaptive sports are welcome to join.
10 - 11 a.m. - Adaptive Sports Sampler in the Gym
11 - 11:30 a.m. - Tour of the new Y facility. Ask questions about accessibility!
Free for Y members / $5 drop-in fee for community members.
Sports chairs provided with RSVP.
RSVP:
Carly Schmidt
[email protected]
541.682.5311
These powered beach chairs are freedom. Machines for quads. Paraplegics may be interested in our manual arm powered chair. Great way to cross train!
Highly recommended!
Take part in an evening that will celebrate the power of sport, community, and the impact of adaptive athletics and recreation on the lives of individuals with physical disabilities and visual impairments. Please plan to join us at Mittleman Jewish Community Center on Saturday, May 4th for sports demos, community building, food, games, and fundraising. Please view the “Get in the Game 2024” link below for more information and to purchase tickets for the event.
Link to “Get in the Game” 2024 Webpage:
https://adaptivesportsnw.org/our-events/get-in-the-game-2024/
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A graphic with a swimming athlete, goalball athlete, and a wheelchair basketball athlete spreading across the image, along with the Get in the Game logo and text that reads “YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN OUR COMMUNITY ON SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2024”
It’s track season! This year our track program will be from March to June. Track practice for March through May 18th will be held at Floyd Light Middle School track (740 SE 106th Avenue, Portland OR 97216) from 10:ooam-12:00pm.
The track is accessible through East Portland Community Center parking lot. Restrooms will be available at East Portland Community Center. Below are our anticipated dates of practices:
March 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th
April 6th, 13th, 27th
May 11th, 18th
***June location and time: TBA
If you would like to join us or if you have any questions please email at [email protected].
Image description:
A flyer promoting our upcoming track practices with various pictures of track and field athletes from last season, and text from the caption above.
The first athletes have been named to the 2024 U.S. Paralympic team. 🇺🇸
(📷 U.S. Paralympics Track & Field)
THE FIRST 4️⃣ TO Paris 2024 🇫🇷
Paralympians Tatyana McFadden, Susannah Scaroni, Aaron Pike and Daniel Romanchuk earn Paralympic Games spots at the NYC Marathon!
U.S. Paralympics Track & Field |
GRANT ALERT: The Challenged Athletes Foundation grant for the 2024 cycle is now open!!
Could you use some brand new adaptive sports equipment? How about funds to help with competition travel expenses?
If you said yes to either of these questions, this may be the grant for you! CAF has been a pillar with helping progress the adaptive sports journey for many athletes who apply for their grant year after year. This grant has benefited many of our ASNW athletes and our organization as a whole.
To find out more information or to begin your grant application visit their webpage:
https://www.challengedathletes.org/programs/grants/
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A screenshot of the CAF 2024 grant webpage.
One year out!
The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games are just 365 days away! US Para Track and Field athletes will be competing to earn a spot on the team in November at the TCS New York City Marathon and in July at U.S. Paralympics Track & Field trials in Chula Vista, CA.
Until then, it's training time!
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