Cooking Class on Tuesday! Fundraising Dinner September 24!
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Congrats to Palm Springs born Junior Wheelchair Tennis athlete Charlie Cooper and his doubles partner Tomas Majestic for coming in runner-up in the Junior Boy's Wheelchair Tennis championship at the US Open! Remarkable!
Dear Community Members:
September, I know that at some point it will cool off. One of my favorite September songs is by Earth, Wind and Fire! Do you remember?
SoCal Adaptive Sports, collaborating with Olive Tree OT and Tami and Tali Monica, of our board of directors, is offering a Life Skills-Cooking Class and Social Dinner Event on September 12. You can register here. Space is limited. We'd love to see you to participate in making and then eating Hummus, Air fryer Pita Pizzas and Fruit Cobbler. Should be a yummy evening!
As the local coordinator for Special Olympics, we really want to build this program starting with tennis and pickleball in mid-October. (Another partner is ACEing Autism.) You can sign up now to be a Special Olympics athlete or volunteer in the Coachella Valley! Please consider joining in on the fun!
(Please note that our October 7 sail in Newport Beach is full, but we will be adding more sailing soon! However, if you like please join us for a pre-sail adapted workout at Crossfit Shorebreak in Huntington Beach. You can register here and also see below.
SoCal Adaptive Sports recently became a National Youth Sports Strategy (NYSS) Champion joining others organizations that support youth sports. The purpose is to promote youth sports and help achieve the NYSS vision: that one day, all youth will have the opportunity, motivation, and access to play sports. (NYSS is part of the US Department of Health and Human Services-Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotions.)
I've started teaching the basics of disc golf at our weekly sessions at Desert ARC-Yucca Valley and Palm Desert. I met Chris Brophy, Project Manager, last year and we had an immediate connection in discussing how disc golf can become a very popular adapted sport. Innova donated a disc golf basket and a disc golf athlete donated a number of discs to SoCal Adaptive to start programming. Innova has started participating in multiple adapted sport fairs throughout southern California and will soon be having an adapted tournament!
Disc golf is kind of like traditional golf's free-spirited little sibling. Played by throwing a disc into an elevated target instead of hitting a ball into a hole, most of the rules, physical benefits, and mental/emotional challenges are the same. A player starts at the designated teeing area and counts the number of throws or strokes it takes to complete the hole. Throwing a disc can be easy for most, whereas hitting a ball with a club can be quite difficult, even after hours and hours of lessons or practice. Disc golf doesn't have a steep learning curve so it's easy to get the basics down and have serviceable form pretty fast. Because the basics of throwing a disc are fairly simple, the range of abilities disc golf is accessible for is greatly expanded. People can be found enjoying disc golf from almost every walk of life, regardless of ability or disability. We have players competing in wheelchairs, on crutches, with amputations/limb differences, visually impaired disc golfers, neuro-divergent disc golfers, and tournament "pros" over 100 years old. Disc golf has quickly become one of the biggest sports participation-wise within the hearing-impaired community. A short round of disc golf can be played in 45 minutes and most courses are free to play. Much like traditional golf, disc golfers play side-by-side with others who are also competing against themselves and the course, as opposed to against each other. Disc golf is truly for everyBODY!
Meet the Board of Directors
Russell G. Albright is a licensed attorney in California and Oklahoma currently practicing law in Indian Wells, California. He was “of counsel” to the law firm of Allan N. Lowy & Associates, APLC in Beverly Hills, California for many years.
Please consider making a donation and becoming a sustaining, monthly or annual donor! We appreciate every donation!
Expert Tennis/Pickleball Lessons in Collaboration with Special Olympics, Aceing Autism at Omni Rancho Las Palmas Resort. Starts October 18. Registration is on a monthly basis.
We're already planning lots more events and activities for 2023 and 2024! Stay tuned!
EVENTS FROM OUR FRIENDS
We believe in the power of collaboration in leveling the playing field and truly bringing about societal inclusion. That's why we're listing these events and also websites of our friends who are doing phenomenal work! Please visit below and click on the links to find out more
Please join us and the others organizations and individuals throughout Riverside County and southern California in leveling the playing field and creating greater societal inclusion!
SoCal Adaptive Sports’ mission is to enable people with disability to participate inclusively throughout society by creating greater equity and inclusion through developing, planning and implementing competitive and recreational sports and other opportunities. We envision a world in which everyBODY has equitable access to leading a fulfilling life.
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