Disability Sports Day offers challenge
Angela Marino
Issue date: 11/10/09 Section: News
Students scrambled to gain possession of the ball as they played wheelchair basketball during Disability Sports Day, held Monday evening in Spartan Complex Room 44B.
Disability Sports Day consisted of six different sports - wheelchair volleyball, boccia, rugby, sport stacking, basketball and goal ball, according to the Disability Sport Expo pamphlet.
At one point, the Disability Sports Day event had around 160 people, said Nancy Megginson, a kinesiology professor and faculty adviser of Disability Sports Day.
She said that last year, the event only attracted about 150 people, and that the class that organized it broke the record from last year.
"The event was sponsored by various companies because of the hospitality and kinesiology students who organized the event," she said. "They asked a variety of companies. The students definitely worked hard to make this event a success."
Sophomore kinesiology major Danielle Erves said the experience was interesting - when she volunteered to play goal ball, which is a team of three blindfolded students who pass a ball past the other blindfolded team of three to score a point.
"It was difficult to play without my sight," she said. "I have a couple of disabled family members, but you don't really understand what it is like until you step into their shoes."
Disability Sports Day was organized by the adapted physical activity club and Kinesiology Course 159, according to the Disability Sport Expo pamphlet.
The adapted physical activity club is a student service organization that focuses on the promotion and advocacy of physical activity opportunities for individuals with disabilities, according to the kinesiology department Web site.
Junior kinesiology major Kristi Hynding said playing goal ball was a lot harder than she thought.
"It made me realize how important sight is," she said. "I play sports, so it was hard to adjust to the blindfold. I really want to take (Kinesiology 159) now. They put on a great event."
Disability Sports Day consisted of six different sports - wheelchair volleyball, boccia, rugby, sport stacking, basketball and goal ball, according to the Disability Sport Expo pamphlet.
At one point, the Disability Sports Day event had around 160 people, said Nancy Megginson, a kinesiology professor and faculty adviser of Disability Sports Day.
She said that last year, the event only attracted about 150 people, and that the class that organized it broke the record from last year.
"The event was sponsored by various companies because of the hospitality and kinesiology students who organized the event," she said. "They asked a variety of companies. The students definitely worked hard to make this event a success."
Sophomore kinesiology major Danielle Erves said the experience was interesting - when she volunteered to play goal ball, which is a team of three blindfolded students who pass a ball past the other blindfolded team of three to score a point.
"It was difficult to play without my sight," she said. "I have a couple of disabled family members, but you don't really understand what it is like until you step into their shoes."
Disability Sports Day was organized by the adapted physical activity club and Kinesiology Course 159, according to the Disability Sport Expo pamphlet.
The adapted physical activity club is a student service organization that focuses on the promotion and advocacy of physical activity opportunities for individuals with disabilities, according to the kinesiology department Web site.
Junior kinesiology major Kristi Hynding said playing goal ball was a lot harder than she thought.
"It made me realize how important sight is," she said. "I play sports, so it was hard to adjust to the blindfold. I really want to take (Kinesiology 159) now. They put on a great event."
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posted 11/10/09 @ 3:36 PM PST
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Someone declared:
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2. Have the education, dont care if the person is a problem child. (Continued…)
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