January 18, 2023 - Morristown, NJ - 'I Can Do More': NJ Kids With Physical Disabilities Struggle To Play, Compete, reported by Jane Havsy, Morristown Daily Record. Can para-sports program cover the needed costs? The expenses soar, reducing athletic participation.
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June 20, 2022 - Morristown, NJ - Special Olympics Unified Sports Give Athletes A Stage. But Is The Program Inclusive Enough? Reported by Jane Havsy, Morristown Daily Record.
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The United States Olympic Committee, in partnership with the national governing bodies, created the American Development Model in 2014 to help Americans realize their full athletic potential and utilize sport as a path toward an active and healthy lifestyle. Click here for details.
May 8, 2016 - Zwickau, Germany - Turkish Wheelchair Basketball Fans Brawl at German Game, BBC. Talk about understatement. The BBC refers to a brawl. Brawl it was, but this brawl involved knives and baseball bats. If the measure of a sport is the seriousness of the fans and their willingness to engage in unsportsmanlike conduct of the highest or lowest order, then wheelchair basketball has made it - but what a way to make it.
February 29, 2016 - Missouri - Disabled Lincoln County High Schooler Asks Court for Permission To Compete Against Peers by Robert Patrick, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 29, 2016. To be specific, Katie Ladlie, a Troy Buchanan High School senior, is able to compete, but she can’t score points. You can see both sides of this: If Katie can’t score, what’s the point of competition. On the other hand, if Katie does score, her school will rack up a lot of easy points because there’s virtually no competition in high school wheelchair competitions. In fact, the article notes that for the “past three seasons, she has been the only girl in Missouri racing in a wheelchair.”
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June 20, 2022 - Morristown, NJ - Special Olympics Unified Sports Give Athletes A Stage. But Is The Program Inclusive Enough? Reported by Jane Havsy, Morristown Daily Record.
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The United States Olympic Committee, in partnership with the national governing bodies, created the American Development Model in 2014 to help Americans realize their full athletic potential and utilize sport as a path toward an active and healthy lifestyle. Click here for details.
May 8, 2016 - Zwickau, Germany - Turkish Wheelchair Basketball Fans Brawl at German Game, BBC. Talk about understatement. The BBC refers to a brawl. Brawl it was, but this brawl involved knives and baseball bats. If the measure of a sport is the seriousness of the fans and their willingness to engage in unsportsmanlike conduct of the highest or lowest order, then wheelchair basketball has made it - but what a way to make it.
February 29, 2016 - Missouri - Disabled Lincoln County High Schooler Asks Court for Permission To Compete Against Peers by Robert Patrick, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 29, 2016. To be specific, Katie Ladlie, a Troy Buchanan High School senior, is able to compete, but she can’t score points. You can see both sides of this: If Katie can’t score, what’s the point of competition. On the other hand, if Katie does score, her school will rack up a lot of easy points because there’s virtually no competition in high school wheelchair competitions. In fact, the article notes that for the “past three seasons, she has been the only girl in Missouri racing in a wheelchair.”
