By Steffanie Accorsi, ASF Summer Intern This week I was lucky enough to be a leader of the Tomorrows Children’s Fund event at the Adaptive Sports Foundation, where teens with cancer from Hackensack Medical Center visit the ASF for a few days of kayaking, canoeing, paddle boarding, mini golf, and good old fashion outdoors R&R. […]

By Chris Brower, ASF Building and Equipment Supervisor This past June, Geoff Krill of Eastern Adaptive Sports and I were part of a panel discussion concerning adaptive mountain biking for ski areas at the National Ski Area Association (NSAA) Downhill Bike Park Summit. We shared the panel with Janet Zeller of the USFS and Dave […]

By Kim Seevers, Program Development and Grants Director While most people connected with the Adaptive Sports Foundation were performing snow dances or researching cloud seeding to make it snow this winter, ASF was busy in Lake Placid, providing training for a group of Paralympic hopefuls you’ve never seen here on the Windham slopes. With support […]

By Cherisse Young, ASF Fundraising and Marketing Director All of us can get caught up in the hustle and bustle of our lives. Wake up, walk the dog, get out the door for the day (often with kids in tow), after school carpools, grocery shopping, dinner, work out (if you are lucky), walk the dog, […]

By Pam Greene, ASF Program Director On December 16-19, 2015 the ASF hosted its first ever Nordic biathlon camp for injured service members in conjunction with Capital Region Nordic Alliance, a Paralympic Nordic Sport Club. Nine veterans, whose injuries range from amputation to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to orthopedic injuries, came to Windham to learn more about […]

On December 1, 2015 at Mount Snow Resort, Gwen Allard received the Einar Aas Award for Excellence in Snowsports School Management from the Professional Ski Instructors of American – American Association of Snowboard Instructors Eastern Division. The Einar Aas Award is presented to a snowsports school director or management staff in the Eastern Division as […]

By Kim Seevers, ASF Program Development and Grant Director / PSIA Adaptive Team Coach Held every four years, the Interski Congress is the most important technical/academic meeting for snowsports instructors in the world. In each Interski Congress the representatives and demonstrators of the national associations of each member nation participate. The congress lasts a week […]

  Since 2007, the Adaptive Sports Foundation’s Warriors in Motion program has been offering programs specific to female Wounded Warriors.  The Women’s Multi Sport Retreat and Spa weekend, sponsored by the Wounded Warrior Project®, combines a variety of rehabilitative activities (golf, paddling, restorative yoga and relaxation, and motivational lectures) and is structured to encourage injured […]