Wheelchair Soccer
Wheelchair soccer, also known as wheelchair power soccer, is one of the most popular adaptive recreation options available. Whether played as a recreational game or a competitive challenge, wheelchair soccer is always fun, engaging, and a great way to connect with your inner athlete. The following organizations will provide the information you need to get started.
Organizations
San Diego Adaptive Sports Foundation
The San Diego Adaptive Sports Foundation's mission is to improve the quality of life for children and adults with physical disabilities through sports and recreation. SDASF works to coordinate and foster a program of adaptive sports by providing competitive league sports, recreational team sports, instructional camps, and sports clinics, and offers other adaptive sports based on need and interest.
Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana Sports Program
RHI Sports believes that sports, recreation, and leisure play important roles in the intrinsic motivation of people with disabilities to re-enter the workforce, develop strong social skills, and improve levels of physical fitness.
The mission of Northeast Passage is to create an environment where individuals with disabilities can recreate with the same freedom of choice, quality of life, and independence as their non-disabled peers.
"USPSA promotes the sport on a national and international level through tournament play, referee certification, training and growth. It is the mission and hope of the USPSA that all persons who use power wheelchairs will have the ""opportunity"" to play and experience Power Soccer. Power Soccer is a team sport that helps build important qualities in people, such as: teamwork, communication, hard work, perseverance, good sportsmanship. "
Courage Camps offer safe, accessible, natural environments where children and adults with physical disabilities, sensory and language impairments, and other disabilities or illnesses discover abilities they never knew they had or they thought they had lost.
American Association of Adapted Sports Programs
AAASP's mission is to oversee the partnership of leaders in education and community to lay the foundation for a national network of interscholastic adapted athletic programs.
Virginia Power Soccer Association is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization with the mission to develop, support, encourage, and foster the participation of Virginia's power wheelchair athletes in the competitive sport of power soccer at the local, regional, national, and international levels.
