Stories from Americans with disabilities
Topics: Sports, Wheelchair Users | Added / updated on March 23rd, 2008 |
The Bay Area Earthquakes, coached by Chris Finn of the Bay Area Outreach and Recreation Program (BORP), take on the Hollister Free Wheelers on February 2, 2008. The game was played at home at James Kenney Park in Berkeley, California.
This six-minute excerpt complements Chris’s story; it begins a few minutes after kickoff and features an Earthquakes goal towards the end of the first period. Box score.
Topics: Outdoors, Sports, Wheelchair Users | Added / updated on March 5th, 2008 |
Join Tom Molina as he practices archery with his friend Leyland and reflects on matters of accessibility and adventure. Meanwhile, the anonymous camera operator wanders carelessly into the verbal crossfire.
Learn more in this video story, titled “Target Practice.”
Topics: Sports, Wheelchair Users | Added / updated on March 2nd, 2008 |
Chris Finn is not only the coach of the local Bay Area Earthquakes, a Division 1 Power Soccer team. Not only is he the coach of the Bay Area Crushers, a Division 2 Power Soccer team. Both teams practice in Berkeley every Saturday, and play in tournaments throughout the region and the USA.
He also coached the World Cup-winning USA Power Soccer team. And he is also an excellent player himself.
Chris works with B.O.R.P., the Bay Area Outreach and Recreation Program, which provides access to sports for people with all kinds of different disabilities.
Learn more about Chris this video story, titled “Coach.”
Topics: Arts & Entertainment, Wheelchair Users | Added / updated on March 1st, 2008 |
How can you describe in words what AXIS calls “physically integrated dance?” Without a firmly-established vocabulary, like that of ballet which has evolved over a century, you truly have to “see it to believe it.”