Tag: sports
member name: Speedy - Support Veterans
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July 31, 2008 09:25 AM EDT --
By Katie Spielberger CCW Staff Writer
JUNEAU - Nobody will tell you that it's easy to finish a marathon - it takes ambition, perseverance, courage and months of training.
Holly Koester is no . . .
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August 29, 2008 08:42 AM EDT --
A second wave of athletes heads to China today to compete in the 2008 Paralympics. The world's premier event for athletes with disabilities will feature a contingent of nine members of the Paralyzed . . .
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May 28, 2008 09:33 AM EDT --
Washington, DC-In tennis, point-winning backhand shots can be delivered just as effectively from wheelchairs as they can by able-bodied players.
Throughout its 62-year history of service to our nation's . . .
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June 13, 2008 08:29 AM EDT --
AURORA- Gateway High School is host this week to over 120 wheelchair bound children.
The 25th annual Colorado Junior Wheelchair Sports Camp began Monday and will conclude Friday with an awards . . .
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June 12, 2008 11:46 AM EDT --
By Connie Mertz
For The Daily Item
ELYSBURG -- Tuesday was another sweltering day for trapshooters at the Pennsylvania State Sportsman's Association State Trapshoot near Elysburg, but no . . .
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June 04, 2008 02:29 PM EDT --
Later this summer, more wheelchair athletes from across the nation-veterans from the Greatest Generation to the latest generation-will gather to test their agility, athleticism and strength of spirit . . .
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June 17, 2008 11:06 AM EDT --
By Vahe Gregorian ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 06/15/2008
Am I dead?
Scott Winkler wondered in a haze after his freak accident with the U.S. Army in Tikrit, Iraq.
The words changed, but the . . .
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June 18, 2008 09:08 AM EDT --
The 28th National Veterans Wheelchair Games, scheduled for July 25-29 in Omaha, Neb., will attract more than 500 veterans with disabilities; it has become the largest annual wheelchair sports competition . . .
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June 25, 2008 09:47 AM EDT --
By ALLEN GEMAEHLICH
The Daily Sentinel
Monday, June 23, 2008
No one appreciates competing in sports more than Carl Andrews.
It's no wonder he rushes his wife, Carol, to complete the . . .
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July 29, 2008 03:52 PM EDT --
Every year, the National Veterans Wheelchair Games welcomes back familiar faces, whether they are new athletes who only started competing last year or seasoned competitors who go back decades. But for . . .
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June 14, 2007 11:32 AM EDT --
Over 500 disabled American heroes will converge on Milwaukee from June 19 – 23 to test their agility, athleticism and strength of spirit in the 27th National Veterans Wheelchair Games, the largest . . .
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June 10, 2008 09:23 AM EDT --
On the FX tv show "30 Days" this Tues (6/10) at 10pm, they are going to have a former football player use a wheelchair for 30 days.
PARTICIPANT - Ray Crockett, 41
RESIDES . . .
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July 01, 2008 09:27 AM EDT --
NORTH LAUDERDALE - He decided to join the Marines at 16. An accident left him paralyzed from the neck down at 20.
Now Carlos Leon, 23, is headed to the Beijing Paralympics - the Olympics for people . . .
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June 10, 2008 12:19 PM EDT --
Washington, DC-Paralyzed Veterans of America (Paralyzed Veterans) thanks the many supporters who made its first Golf Open an unqualified success. The nearly 150 golfers who spent the day on the course . . .
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July 15, 2008 02:25 PM EDT --
by LAREIGN WARD, Press Argus-Courier Staff
Monday, July 14, 2008 9:16 AM CDT
A local man will be competing in the world's largest annual wheelchair sporting event later this month in Omaha, . . .
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July 31, 2008 09:09 AM EDT --
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
OMAHA, Neb., (07/30/2008) - As disabled veterans tested their limits during the National Disabled Veterans Wheelchair Games, which wrapped up here yesterday, . . .
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July 31, 2008 09:15 AM EDT --
By Donna Miles Omaha, NE - infoZine - The event is the world's largest annual wheelchair sports competition. It brings together veterans with spinal cord injuries, amputations or other mobility . . .
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July 28, 2008 09:28 AM EDT --
Once again, hundreds of athletes are in Omaha for a national competition. The National Veterans Wheelchair Games opened Saturday at the Qwest Center.
The event has drawn some 500 athletes from across . . .
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