Camp Abilities Tucson

Sending a huge camp two claps for Professor Lita Wiesner from GateWay Community College and her students in gwccota7 for their phenomenal work with our athletes last week. We wish you all the best in the rest of your studies and we feel confident that your future clients with visual impairments are in good hands.

(Photo 1: a group of athletes with their coaches from Gateway CC. Photo 2: a coach from Gateway bikes with an athlete. Photo 3: a coach from Gateway passes a ball with an athlete. Photo 4: a coach from Gateway encourages an athlete who is doing a farmer’s carry. Photo 5: Professor Lita “Dubs” Wiesner talks with a CIT.)

Our last days of camp were full of biking, beep baseball, basketball, goalball, strength training, and talent show! We had such a great week and can’t wait to see everyone next year.

(Photo 1: a coach an athlete run together during a tag game. Photo 2: two athletes play keep away with their coach. Photo 3: a coach instructs an athlete throwing a goalball. Photo 4: an athlete and a coach pose smiling on a side-by-side bike.)

An incredible night riding and hanging out with friends at TRAK Tucson 🐴🐣🐓🐶🐈🐰🐷🐖🌵🌞🤠!

(Photo 1: a coach and athlete pose together smiling. Photo 2: an athlete gets settled on a horse. Photo 3: a coach and athlete work on a leather stamping craft. Photo 4: an athlete pets a pig.)

Fun in the sun ☀️ with beep baseball and tandem biking.

(Photo 1: an athlete swings a bat at a pitched beep baseball. Photo 2: a coach and CIT smile on a side by side bike. Photo 3: Athletes and coaches run during a game of red light, green light.)

A great evening at Rockin’ Star Ranch!

(Photo 1: Coach Shari stands next to two athletes on horses. Photo 2: Athletes and coaches stand in two lines as goats run through the middle. Photo 3: athletes and coaches sit on horses before a ride. Photo 4: athletes and coaches hold chickens and rabbits in the petting zoo.)

A fun night of weightlifting and swimming.

(Photo 1: an athlete bench presses while coaches watch. Photo 2: an athlete uses a leg curl machine. Photo 3: athletes and coaches get into the huddle position in life jackets in the pool. Photo 4: a coach and athlete sit on the steps of the pool while another coach uses her arms to demonstrate how to kick.)

Another beautiful morning of tandem biking with and beep baseball!

(Photo 1: Coach Matt and Coach Bashir work with an athlete to hit a pitched ball. Photo 2: a coach bikes on a side by side bike with an athlete. Photo 3: an SAAS staff member shades an athlete with an umbrella as a coach and athlete prepare to ride a tandem.)

Working out and staying cool in the Arizona Adaptive Athletics fitness center this afternoon.

(Photo 1: Coach Matt teaches athletes to do box step ups. Photo 2: athletes play push up ball. Photo 3: athletes do bent over rows with kettle bells. Photo 4: athletes do box jumps.)

TWO CLAPS for Southern Arizona Adaptive Sports for bringing a variety of tandems and adapted bikes for us to use at camp this week. We had a great morning riding at the park.

(Photos 1 & 2: SAAS staff helping CAT coaches and athletes learn to use adapted bikes. Photo 3: a SAAS staff member tandem bikes with an athlete. Photo 4: a group of athletes and coaches prepare for a ride on adapted bikes. Photo 5: a coach pilots an athlete on a tandem bike.)

Camp Abilities Tucson will cost at least $10,000 more to run moving forward due to our move to a new facility off the ASDB campus.

This year, we have less than four months to fundraise.

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