Our Athletes and Coaches

Vaughn was a life-long athlete. Running. Basketball.

And a successful executive recruiter.

At 34, a spinal cord stroke paralyzed him.

Two years later, he started playing wheelchair basketball, then joined the NE Patriots Wheelchair Football team.

Vaughn IS a life-long athlete.

Maddie Babcock has been swimming for as long as she can remember. Growing up in Belmont, Massachusetts, she had a pool in her backyard, so she learned how to swim very early on.

Quickly, her parents recognized how much she loved being in the water and signed her up for the local swim team when she was seven years old.

Humaira Africawala first began swimming with Adaptive Sports New England (ASNE). At her first swim lesson, she remembers being scared of the water.

However, with the help of her coaches and her family she started coming to the pool every week and growing not only as a swimmer, but also as a person.

Member of the Adaptive Sports New England Boston Strong Beep Baseball Team

2025 National Beep Baseball Association All-Star

Sophomore at Essex North Shore Technical and Agricultural High School

Michael Prout is a life-long swimmer who has transitioned from elite athlete to accomplished coach. A former Division I swimmer at the University of Massachusetts, he competed at the highest levels internationally, winning gold in the 400m freestyle and bronze in the 100m freestyle at the 2004 Paralympics in Athens at age 18. He went on to compete in Beijing (2008) and served as team captain at the London Games (2012).

As a kid, Delmace loved to play.

Now he loves to play and compete.

He competes nationally, and internationally on the wheelchair racing team.

He’s that good.

And now he coaches kids who are like he was when we met 12 years ago.

In August, he starts at University of Arizona with their adaptive track team.

Adaptive Sports New England is led by Joe Walsh, a native of Braintree, MA, and a graduate of Dartmouth College and UMass Amherst.

He is a two-time Paralympian in cross-country skiing, and former Managing Director of Paralympics for the United States Olympic Committee. Joe served on Team USA’s delegation staff at six Paralympic Games and as Chef de Mission at two Parapan American Games.