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Sundays, 12:30-2:00 PM beginning September 30 Keohane Sports Center – Wellesley College The Paralympic Sport Club Boston Swim Team is a competition-focused and fitness-focused program for youth and young adults who: Have a physical impairment or visual impairment (based on World Para Swimming criteria) Can participate in group training and […]

Paralympic Sport Club Boston Swim Team


Please join us at the Fall 2017 Paralympic Sport Community Day hosted by Adaptive Sports New England in cooperation with Tufts Rowing Teams, Spaulding Adaptive Sports Centers, Community Rowing, Northeast Passage, South Coast Wheelchair Tennis Foundation and many others. Sunday, November 5, 2017 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM Tufts University – Tisch […]

PARALYMPIC SPORT COMMUNITY DAY


This blog post was adopted from http://rudermanfoundation.org/there-was-nothing-to-see-what-inclusion-looks-like/   There Was Nothing to See—What Inclusion Looks Like by Dr. Miriam Heyman, a Program Officer at the Ruderman Family Foundation   We talk a lot about how much work still needs to be done before we become a truly inclusive society. And we […]

There Was Nothing to See—What Inclusion Looks Like


Katrina Gerhard Katrina started out racing in her every day chair, pioneering the inclusion of wheelchair racing in Massachusetts high school track and field (MIAA). Now, she is a member of the wheelchair racing team at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 1. Can you give us a little background about […]

Q&A with Katrina Gerhard



TENTATIVE AS OF 9/15/18 – SUBJECT TO CHANGE Friday – November 16, 2018 3:00-3:30 pm – Arrival and Check-in at Boyden Pool 3:30-5:30 pm – Pool Session #1 6:00 pm – Dinner at UMass Hampshire Commons Saturday – November 17, 2018 9:30-9:45am; Arrival at Boyden Pool 10:00am-12:00pm: Pool Session #2 […]

NE Para Swimming Clinic Schedule


This past Thursday, over 300 racers came out from all over The state of Massachusetts to race in the Martin Richard Memorial mile. The race, now in it’s fourth year, was started  to promote Martin Richard’s message of Peace as well as raise money for Youth Enhancement Services, an organization […]

Martin Richard Mile Results


As summer comes to an end, and the beginning of  school and fall sports draws near, we can’t help but express our excitement for all of our athletes who will be competing on their school and college teams! For this week’s Q & A we caught up with Chris Kimball. […]

Q & A with Chris Kimball


Femita Ayanbeku     Femita is a  T44 100 and 200 meter T & F Paralympian.  She recently competed in the 2017 World Para Track and Field Championships. We caught up with her to see how it went!  What was your training like leading up to London? Leading up to […]

Catching up with Femita Ayanbeku