An extreme athlete from Canada, Lonnie Bissonnette is one of the most prolific BASE jumpers in the world. https://youtu.be/h9eyCNXHi2g He was paralyzed in a BASE jumping accident after his parachute didn’t deploy and he had an incomplete injury of his C3 vertebrae.…
“I just want people to see me as me and approach me like any other person,” Cody Everton shares. When he was 15 years old, he broke his neck while playing rugby and has been using a wheelchair ever since,…
Jeff Tweedie, a ventilator dependent quadriplegic injured in a rugby accident in 1994, is giving back to the sports community as an assistant coach for the Winthrop/Monmouth Middle School Football team in Maine. https://youtu.be/v3f_6UA4wFY Coaching football is a big part…
Paralyzed from a spinal tumor at the age of 16, Sarah Holm was initially unsure of her future in sports. “I thought I would just have to sit on the sidelines and cheer,” she says. But then Sarah found Colsac…
Cody was paralyzed in a rugby accident when he was 15 years old, but that didn’t stop him from being embracing his inner athlete. Rugby may be the reason he uses a wheelchair, but he has found a home on…
Cameron, a wheelchair rugby player on the Wheel Blacks of New Zealand has been playing for 7 years. https://youtu.be/yRSvakrdEwY The attraction to wheelchair rugby “For me it was the team atmosphere…I never had experience a team environment until wheelchair rugby…
Sailing started off as an excuse for Jovin Tan, a wheelchair-user, to get out of his house. Now, he’s working to qualify for his fourth Paralympics to represent Singapore. Managing a demanding training schedule “It’s all about time management,”…
“I immediately loved the water and the freedom I had in it.” A volleyball player in her younger years, Beth was introduced to swimming as a form of therapy after being paralyzed in a car accident. She first joined…
Stumbling upon wheelchair basketball When Emilio was learning how to drive a handcontrolled car, the person in charge of wheelchair basketball noticed that Emilio was “young and mobile”, and told him he was suitable for the sport. He had always been a…
Josh Cassidy got into the wheelchair racing world at 15 years old after being inspired by Canadian legend Jeff Adams. He made his first National team in 2006 and competed in his first Paralympic Games in Beijing in 2008. While…