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People with blindness or visual impairments often get the short end of the stick when it comes to sports, but goalball works around this issue by having people of all abilities wear blackout eye shades during competition.
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Torre Meeks and the Inclusive Recreation program have transitioned their services online and demonstrate the necessity of inclusive and accessible sports.
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People with blindness or visual impairments often get the short end of the stick when it comes to sports, but goalball works around this issue by having people of all abilities wear blackout eye shades during competition.
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For many students on campus, athletics and fitness are a given in their everyday lives. For these visually impaired students, however, goalball often provides their first opportunity ever to participate in a competitive sport.
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Unlike other sports, goalball is specifically designed for visually impaired individuals. For most of the team’s players — all of whom are visually impaired — goalball is their first exposure to competitive sports.
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In a dimly lit room at the back of the RSF, past the rows of treadmills and tired faces on the first floor, change is brewing. Change is littered all over the floor in tiny, multicolored balls and silver golfing clubs. It is in the faces of the room’s occupants,
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What do you get when you combine the efforts of the chief medical officer of the Beijing Olympics, a former professional soccer player turned Chancellor’s Public Scholar, a former Paralympic athlete, a coach from the Bay Area Outreach and Recreations Program, the director of the American Cultures Engaged Scholarship program,
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