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Letter from the Executive Director

Boston Breakers', L-R, Kasey Moore, Kristine Lilly, Leslie Osborne and Jordan Angeli with Ross Lilley at Harvard Stadium for athletes from AccesSportAmerica's City Street program, in-school program for youth living with disabilities in partnership with the Boston Public Schools

Regularly, we recruit professional and elite athletes to inspire our athletes living with disabilities. Honorary Board member Bill Belichick has involved our athletes at the Patriots Training Camp. The Boston Bruins are planning a conditioning and street hockey clinic with us for the Fall. Three of our training consultants, Gary Piantedosi, Tom Bohrer and Carey Sands-Bohrer, are world-class and Olympic rowers. The Red Sox are inspiring us to create a baseball and conditioning program. In short, elite athletes somehow reach through the most profound cognitive and physical barriers and make us all want to perform on a higher level.

This certainly was the case during our annual soccer and conditioning clinic at Jordan Field at Harvard University. We've held this clinic for the past three years with soccer great, Kristine Lilly. This year, over 120 of our year round athletes from our City Street program, our in-school program in partnership with the Boston Public Schools, were joined by the Boston Breakers soccer team. The Breakers participated in our drills and games, and immediately we could see the level pick up. Somehow, our athletes seemed to sense that these were some of the greatest women soccer players in the world. It was a wonderful phenomenon as our athletes had the impetus to reach higher and feel their athletic feat honored. With world class athletes by their side, they begin to understand that their play is world-class as well. For what else might we say when a person living with autism can perform a scissors move under pressure or a youth with cerebral palsy in a walker can do a pull back move in a game? These are extraordinary feats given the individual challenges of each.

We thank Harvard University for providing the space, not only for this clinic but for our weekly conditioning sessions at their indoor facilities. We also wish to thank the Boston Breakers for their continued inspiration in our community.  

Sincerely,

Ross Lilley 
Executive Director

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