Barbi Baum competed in swimming and track and field at the international level in the 1980’s and graduated from the University of Illinois in 1982. She was president of their Disabled Sports Organization and a Paralympic athlete. She has been a disabled athlete most of her life and has shared her time and talents endlessly encouraging those with disabilities to participate. She was one of the founding members of Three Rivers Adaptive Sports in 1989 and was recently inducted into the Adaptive Sports Hall of Fame for her contributions.

Darian Haynes is an adaptive athlete who competes in para snowboarding, surfing, and skateboarding. Growing up surfing in Hawaii, she was a fixture on Team Hawaii and then Team USA, earning 8 individual & team World Championship medals. She has competed locally and internationally at over 30 surfing events. After moving to the mainland in 2021, she relocated to Silverthorn Colorado and began training in para snowboard for the 2026 Paralympics with Adaptive Action Sports. She is currently a member of the USA Para Snowboard Team has been ranked third in the world. And through AAS she also expanded into the competitive world of Para Skateboarding.

At age 17, Noah Elliott had his left leg amputated above the knee. He would learn about Paralympic snowboarding through attending a camp for children with cancer. Although the Paralympic gold medalist is known for his success on the snow, we chat with him about his passion for skateboarding as well.

Natalie Grazian has a congenital limb difference, meaning her right arm did not fully develop before birth. Exercising has always been a passion and that prompted her to find modifications to help her do the activities she cares about. But when it came to some yoga positions and weight-bearing exercises, her limb difference presented a unique challenge. So the University of Washington graduate student worked with a prosthetic company to design a new type of prosthetic arm that will benefit fellow yoga fans across the world.

Pete Peterson, aka Pickleball Pete as he is known at GLASA, is a certified pickleball instructor and helps lead the adaptive pickleball program at Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association, a Move United member organization in the Chicago area. So we chat with him about the sport.

Daniel Gale is a founder and current executive director of Adaptive Action Sports, a Move United member organization based in Colorado. He has been a sports organizer for ESPN and the Summer X Games, the Adaptive Skateboard Park Jam, Adaptive Sno-Cross, and more. He also serves as the general manager for para skateboarding with USA Skateboarding.

Justin Phongsavanh made his international debut for the United States at the 2019 Parapan American Games, where he won a gold medal in javelin. He represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, winning a bronze medal. In June 2021, during the U.S. Paralympic Team Trials for Track and Field, Justin set the javelin throw world record with a distance of 33.29 meters and is aiming for gold in Paris 2024.

3X Paralympian Patty Cisneros Prevo, who won two gold medals as part of the national women’s wheelchair basketball team and is a disability advocate focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion, has published a new children’s book called “Tenacious: Fifteen Adventures Alongside Disabled Athletes.” She is on a book tour now and will be signing copies at The Hartford Nationals on Sunday, July 9th.

Michael Rosenkrantz is the Executive Director of So Cal Adaptive Sports, a Move United member organization. He has coached wheelchair basketball at the collegiate level, serving as an Assistant Coach with the University of Arizona women’s team and is a Level II Certified Archery instructor. We are here today to talk about adaptive pickleball, another sport he coaches.

Born with spina bifida, Hannah Dederick was abandoned at the steps of a hospital in China and adopted from an orphanage by a family in the United States. Through Shriners Children’s Hospital, she learned about wheelchair track in 2015 and connected with ParaSport Spokane, a Move United member organization in Washington. Having already competed at one Paralympics, Hannah is looking for more in the future.