Free USA Swimming Clinic for Disabled Youth (under18)
Note: Athletes Without Limits has no formal involvement in this event and INAS athlete eligibility paperwork is not necessary to participate.
Date:
Saturday, April 2, 2011 2:00-5:00 pm
Location:
Wave House Athletic Club, 3115 Ocean Front Walk, San Diego, CA 92109
http://www.wavehouseatheticclub.com
Inside Belmont Park at Mission Boulevard and West Mission Bay Drive, on Mission Beach. Use the south parking lot.
Who is Welcome?
Swimmers with physical, vision, hearing, and cognitive disabilities aged 18 and younger. Must be able to swim at least one competi...
USRowing Camp for Athletes with Intellectual Disability
Dates: March 25-27, 2011
Location: Austin TX
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This 3-day Development Camp will help adult athletes with intellectual disabilities to increase their individual rowing technique; build rowing confidence; provide opportunities to row in a team boat; and learn the skills of competitive racing. The purpose of this Development Camp is to identify and select athletes with intellectual disabilities for the USA National Adaptive Rowing Team.
Camp Fee is $150.00 per athlete for the 3-day Camp including intensive coaching & off-water activities. ...
Syd Lea Wins CrashB Indoor Rowing Event
Athletes Without Limits Syd Lea competed as part of the Capital Adaptive Rowing squad at the 2nd annual Adaptive Challenge at the C.R.A.S.H.-B Sprints in Boston February 21, 2011.
The club team, which is comprised of athletes with physical or intellectual disability, brought home two hammer trophies:Â Syd Lea won 1st place in the Men's open intellectually disabled class and Claudia Perry won 1st place in the Women's LTA-V.
Joe Tezak missed 3rd place in the Men's AS by 1.4 seconds (but maybe even better, he won a Concept2 erg in the adaptive athlete raffle!). ...
Michael Murray PR’s with US Paralympic Team at IPC Athletics World Championships
Related article: Michael Murray to Compete in IPC Athletics World Championships in New Zealand
Congratulations to Michael Murray — the first American athlete with an intellectual disability to make the US Paralympic Team in over a decade — for his PR of 4:18 in the men's 1500m World Championship last month on Christchurch.
Michael is currently ranked 13th in the world in the men's 1500m. He was 6th in his heat and missed out on the finals by one place. Here's what we saw on ParalympicTV: Through 3 laps Michael was comfortably with the leaders. With 300 ...
Presidents Day Happy Hour!
February 21, 2011
5-8pm
Dirty Martini
Put on your other 'goggles' and join us at Dirty Martini for a happy hour to support athletes with intellectual disability and dreams of making the 2012 US Paralympic Team. If you don't live in the DC area or can't make it, we hope you'll consider an online donation to support the athletes. Directions to Dirty Martini: 1219 Connecticut Avenue NW Washington, DC 20036 [map]
Michael Murray to Compete in IPC Athletics World Championships in New Zealand
Michael represents the first U.S. athlete with intellectual disability to compete at a Paralympic World Championship in over a decade with hopes of making Team USA for the London 2012 Games.
Watch live online January 26 at 6:15pm
Washington, D.C. – Athletes Without Limits, a nonprofit supporting athletes with intellectual disability and Olympic dreams, announced that history is in the making, as U.S. runner, Michael Murray, 19, prepares to compete for Team USA at the 2011 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletics World Championships in Christchurch, ...
Two Psychologists Join Athletes Without Limits Staff
DC-Area Psychologists Volunteer to Help Athletes with Intellectual Disability Qualify for Paralympics
Washington D.C.: Two area psychologists, Pamela Meek and Brady Haycock, joined Athletes Without Limits as National Eligibility Officers to assist in classifying athletes with intellectual disability for US teams. Athletes Without Limits is responsible for providing evidence of intellectual disability in order for athletes to represent the United States at Paralympic and other high-level competition, including the 2012 Paralympics.
In addition to being top ...
O’Rourke finishes strong at Nation’s Tri
When Athletes Without Limits co-founders Julie & Barry Holman first met Sean O'Rourke it was at a Disability Cross-Country event near their hometown in Long Island. O'Rourke soon added swimming and cycling to his workout mix and competed in small local triathlon. He then set his sights on Nations Triathlon, an epic Olympic distance triathlon at the National Mall in the heart of Washington DC.
The Holman's, DC Residents and triathletes themselves, hosted Sean and his wife Pavla throughout the event week which featured a meet and greet with both Nation's ...
Maria D’Andrea and Gail Morning Make Strong Showing at First Paralympic Meet
The GTAC Disability Swim meet provided an opportunity for Athletes Without Limits swimmers to compete together with physically disabled Paralympic swimmers for the first time.
Swimmers Maria D'Andrea and Gail Morning traveled to Cincinnati last month to compete in the 7th Annual Greater Toledo Aquatic Club (GTAC) Disability Open Swimming Championships, sanctioned by both USA Swimming and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). While the meet organizers have always welcomed athletes with any disability to compete, what makes this year's meet different is that it ...
T20 Class Now Open at US Paralympic Track & Field Nationals
For the first time in over a decade Paralympic opportunities are opening up for athletes with intellectual disability, starting with the men's 1500m for T20 (athletes with intellectual disability) at the upcoming 2010 US Paralympic Track & Field Nationals June 15-20, 2010 in Mirimar Florida.
Athletes Without Limits co-founder Barry Holman, worked together with US Paralympic to incorporate the class at this years nationals realizing the importance of the event for any athlete interested in getting into the US Team pipeline for the 2012 Paralympics.
Athletes ...
