Adaptive Sports

Major Lewis enlisted in 1990, and after serving for 10 years, went immediately into the Navy Reserves. Three years in, a motorcycle accident left him paralyzed and in a wheelchair.

When Marine Corps Veteran Doris Denton first heard about the […]

More than 600 volunteers participated in various capacities during Winter Sports Clinic, helping register people, aiding Veterans in and out of equipment, fulfilling transportation needs and guiding participants to their sports activities.

This Army Veteran joined the military at 19 because he wasn’t sure what he wanted to do.Now, he’s 22, recovering from a brain tumor and he just wants to walk.

There was a time Air Force Veteran Miguel Davis-Dacio of the Bronx, New York, found himself as a homeless Veteran begging for help. Tuesday at the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic, he found himself on the bottom of a ski slope for the first time, begging to do it again.

The National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic made such an impact on his life that Vietnam Veteran Bob Haas created an adaptive sports program at home.

Hope Cooper is a former Air Force medic staff sergeant, but around the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic in Snowmass, Colorado, the paraplegic Veteran is part camp counselor, part celebrity and all teddy bear.

Disabled Veterans are getting properly fitted by assistive prosthesis teams for adaptive sports equipment needed to participate in activities like downhill skiing, snowmobiling, sled hockey, cross country skiing, snowshoeing and rock climbing this week at the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic.

Often referred to as “Miracles on a Mountainside,” the clinic promotes rehabilitation through adaptive Alpine and Nordic skiing, rock climbing, wheelchair self-defense, sled hockey, scuba diving, and other adaptive sports and activities.

The following letter was received from one of the 2016 VA National Veterans Creative Art Festival participants.

VA is providing up to $8 million in grants to fund adaptive-sports programs that offer activities for disabled Veterans and members of the armed forces who have disabilities.

The unique weekend event, part of a wider initiative unveiled by BVA in early November, was made possible through a grant awarded to the Association by VA’s Office of National Veterans Sports Programs and Special Events.