Getting Everyone Moving

Ashley is the Executive Director of the Permobil Foundation, providing needed equipment for people with disability

Jake Herbert is a 29 year old adaptive athlete. He started his adaptive sport career in wheelchair basketball at the age of 19 before moving his focus to powerlifting at the age of 23. He made his first USA National Para-Powerlifting team in 2016 and competed in his first Para-Powerlifting World Championship in 2017 in Mexico City. He also the founder of AdaptivePower Strength & Fitness LLC in Indiana. This is a new business that focuses on giving people that are disable and able-body a way to achieve their fitness goals in a whole new light.

Jim Glatch took over as Edinboro University’s coach for student-athletes with disabilities in 1995. Most noteworthy is his work as the head coach of the wheelchair basketball team. He ranks as one of the leaders both nationally and internationally in coaching wheelchair basketball.

Brian lost his leg at the age of 10 due to a train accident. After he finished rehabilitation, he wanted to get back to playing his favorite sports: basketball and football. He played middle school football on his prosthetic until it became too strenuous. His mother discovered the Lakeshore Foundation, a U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Training Site in Birmingham, Alabama, where he fell in love with the wheelchair basketball after a attending sport camps for children with disabilities at the age of 12....Married to Diane Bell and they have five children.  Brian enjoys drawing, playing video games, reading, cooking, and hanging out with friends and family.

Paralympic Experience

World Championship Experience

You will absolutely love this interview with Wheelchair Rugby Paralympian Chad Cohn.  Chad enjoys gardening, cars, shoes, camping and doing anything outside. Paralympic Experience Two-time Paralympian (2012, 2016); Two-time medalist (1 silver, 1 bronze) Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, silver London 2012 Paralympic Games, bronze World Championship Experience Most recent: 2018 – bronze Years of participation: 2010, 2014, 2018 Medals: 3 (1 gold, 2 bronze) Gold – 2010 Bronze - 2014, 2018

Baron was born with spina bifida, a birth defect that has resulted in weakness in her legs. Until the third grade, Shelby walked around school with crutches and sat out of most PE activities. When she was nine years old, Lolly Romano, an adaptive PE specialist with the Department of Education, introduced her to a wheelchair. This allowed her to participate in most sports along with her classmates. She began playing wheelchair basketball with Coach Jeff Sampaga every Thursday as a way to get exercise, and was referred to a Tuesday night wheelchair tennis class. Tennis was frustrating at first, but she felt so good each time she hit a ball back over the net. After a couple of years, Shelby joined a US Tennis Association (USTA) junior team with able-bodied players. Most recently, Shelby represented the U.S. Juniors a second time in the 2012 BNP Paribas World Team Cup, held this year in Seoul, South Korea. An exciting event, the U.S. Juniors took second place, their best finish since 2003, after beating the top seed, Great Britain

Theresa and her husband Bruce are the proud parents of Kai who has a number of disabilities but it doesn't stop this vivacious 10 year old from being a Renaissance Man.  Kai plays a number of sports, is also a chef and an artist.  

Justin is a former collegiate wheelchair basketball player at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.  He is now a youth wheelchair basketball coach for GLASA  Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association.

Kalamazoo College-Wen Chao Chen Associate Professor of East Asian Social Sciences. His research focuses on modern Japanese history, with particular emphases on sports, disability, militarization, and urban development. At K, I teach courses on the entire scope of premodern, modern, and contemporary East Asian history with particular focus on China, Japan, and Korea. I also teach First-Year and Sophomore Seminars in the College’s Shared Passages Program, as well as Senior Seminars for the History Department and the East Asian Studies Program.  

Dennis most recent book is More Than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan.  

Dennis has a son with spina bifida who plays tennis, sled hockey and other sports

Jen is a 2-time Paralympic gold medalist in wheelchair basketball. She has been in adaptive sport since 2001 as an athlete, coach, classifier, and educator. In 2004, Jen earned a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois where she studied Sports Management with an emphasis in Adaptive Sport. Jen and her family have been in Flagstaff since 2016.  Jen is the Director of Parasport Flagstaff.