By Pam Greene, Program Director Each winter for the past 25 years, the Russell R. Huntington Jr. Foundation has sponsored an overnight adventure in the Catskills for teenagers with cancer and other serious illnesses. This February the group of six teens arrived with staff from the Tomorrows Children’s Institute (TCI) at Hackensack Medical […]
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Dralla Foundation Race4All Partners Hit the Course
By Kim Seevers, Program Development and Grants Director The first Race4All inclusive race, generously sponsored by Dralla Foundation, took place March 4th at Windham Mountain as part of the Michael Gray Jr Memorial Race. Adaptive Sports Foundation students partnered with able-bodied counterparts to form teams of two to compete against each other in a dual slalom […]
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By Karen and Rich Elder, parents of Zach Elder, ASF snowboard team member and ASF volunteers As they used to say on the hit 1980’s TV show, the A Team – “I love it when a plan comes together.” On January 7, three amazing organizations came together to make the first official Special Olympics […]
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By Kim Seevers, Program Development and Grants Director ASF Competition Team alum Staci Mannella earned three World Cup medals in Karnjska Gora, Slovenia last week in a tune up for this week’s World Championships in Tarvisio, Italy. Staci and her guide Sadie DeBaun picked up two silvers and a gold last week and opened their […]
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By Kim Seevers, Program Development and Grants Director The Adaptive Sports Foundation’s annual Warriors in Motion Learn to Ski & Ride event is typically visited by dignitaries from around New York and this year was no different. Veterans and their families were greeted by the Lieutenant Governor of the State of New York Kathy Hochul as […]
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By Kim Seevers, Program Development and Grants Director In the not-for-profit world it’s all about giving back. This usually comes in a human form; a volunteer, a donor, a board member, or a grant maker. Sometimes however, something unexpected comes along that tips the scales of student learning in favor of success. At ASF, we’ve been […]
Continue reading "Magic Boots and Magical Instructors" →Young professionals organize for Adaptive Sports Foundation
The Adaptive Sports Foundation’s Young Professionals Club is a group of current volunteers, former volunteers, and young professionals ages 18 – 35 who are raising awareness for the Adaptive Sports Foundation. The group was founded in 2016 by a set of individuals with the goal to extend the arm of the ASF into the young […]
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By Russ Funk, ASF Race Team Coordinator & Head Coach This year the ASF Race Team had three athletes attend the Hartford Ski Spectacular Race Camp November 29th-December 4th. Hosted by Disabled Sports USA in Breckenridge, Colorado, the Hartford Ski Spectacular is one of the nation’s largest winter sports festivals for people with disabilities […]
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My name is Dawn Macomber, I am 45 years old, mom, hobby chicken farmer, 100% disabled, service connected, Army veteran from Derry, NH. I have Cauda Equina Syndrome with incomplete paraplegia. I was able to participate in the ASF’s Warriors In Motion® bobsled clinic at the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, NY this past […]
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Over 280 volunteers represent the backbone of the Adaptive Sports Foundation’s winter program. These amazing individuals perform a variety of duties for us including, but definitely not limited to, ski and snowboard instruction, lunch service, equipment maintenance, shuttle service and much more! Many of our volunteers have been with us each winter for over two and three decades. Three families have three […]
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