Wheelchair Sports
Wheelchair sports are among the most popular of the adaptive sports types. Choose among wheelchair basketball, wheelchair rugby, wheelchair power lifting, even wheelchair billiards. Most of these sports require very specific adaptive equipment, and some are team sports with tournaments held throughout the country (see especially wheelchair basketball). The following articles will provide you with information on how to get started with wheelchair sports, including what organizations offer programs in your area.
Wheelchair pool and billiards are great accessible recreation opportunities for people with disabilities. All they take is a cue, a pool table, and a rack of balls.
What Paralympics sport encourages you to smash a competitor's wheelchair with your own and is also known as murderball? That's right, wheelchair rugby - and some of the top players went head-to-head for a chance to compete in Beijing.
Adaptable baseball for children with disabilities is becoming more and more popular. Learn why special needs kids love playing America's favorite game, and how you can bring an accessible diamond to your neighborhood.
Wheelchair Accessible Sports Venues for Children with Disabilities
Articles
National Wheelchair Basketball Association: Older than the N.B.A.
Wheelchair basketball buffs will want to check out this account of the sport's start during WWII, as well as how players and equipment have evolved over the years.
Wheelchair Tennis Champ Karin Korb is Living Outside the Lines
Karin Korb is hard to find: she travels the world playing tennis and teaching fitness. She's also in a wheelchair. Bubbly and energetic, Karin spreads her energy at tennis tournaments and working with...
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Wheelchair Racing in the Boston Marathon
Ever since 1975 when the door was opened to disabled athletes, the country's premier marathon has attracted top wheelchair racers from all over the globe. Competitors with disabilities are "welcomed,...
Wheelchair Basketball's New Equipment and Camps for Children with Disabilities
Here's everything kids with disabilities need to know to play wheelchair basketball, from rules and regs to the right kind of chair.
Power wheelchair soccer player Gray Dougherty loves the sport for its speed and the workout it gives him. His cracked and scratched wheelchair attests to his intensity of play, but anyone in a power...
