AccesSportAmerica - Adaptive Sports and Programs for People with Special Needs

Programs

AccesSportAmerica's programs are designed to promote each person's highest physical and athletic potential while cultivating social and emotional well-being. We seek to create a community where differences are diminished, blurred and often erased. We emphasize the need to "train for life" and design programs to build a community of relationships that last a lifetime.

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Events

Events raise funds to support programs and build awareness. Check out AccesSportAmerica's upcoming events:

Sunday, July 9, 2017 -- Mayor's Cup Regatta

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Donate

Your support of AccesSportAmerica makes all the difference. We depend on the generosity and support of individuals, corporations, and foundations. There are several ways to support and participate...

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Spring/Summer 2017

The In School Program, The New England Patriots, and Harvard University. Each year we celebrate our athletes with whom we train throughout the school year. These students are primarily from Boston Public Schools and the Cotting School of Lexington, Massachusetts. The skills of these athletes are varied. Everyone is compelling, given the gifts, challenges, abilities, and disabilities within each. We train in the spaces that are available. Sometimes we are in gyms and other times cafeterias, auditoriums, and even hallways. We use game systems and drills that push these high school aged students to be and see themselves as true athletes. Our athletes are rarely in any spotlight or recognized formally. This is why, each year, we celebrate them with a football clinic at Harvard University with volunteers from the football team and players from the New England Patriots. Read More
Fall 2016

We run three major events each year. The Mayor’s Cup Regatta, The Auction for Access Gala, and our Run/Roll for Access. The Regatta and the Gala are truly big events with hundreds of attendees. The Run for Access is smaller with a 20-30 participants but the impact is equal to one in which hundreds of people run or push. Read More

A film made by Andrew Mudge. AccesSportAmerica produced this 11-minute film with our great friends at Zeno Mountain Farm. Every March at our Sports Camp in Jensen Beach, Florida, 32 people with a wide range of skills, abilities, and disabilities form four teams to compete for "The Cup." This intense training camp is now over 10 years in running.

For more videos, browse our Video Gallery.